If you're looking for something to do next weekend, head down to Llangollen – where even the rail replacement bus is a draw.

Rail replacement bus? That’s the stuff of nightmares 

Let me explain. Llangollen heritage railway (llangollen-railway.co.uk) in Denbighshire’s bucolic Dee Valley is hosting a Classic Transport Weekend next weekend (July 6-7), and vintage buses will connect the five tiny train stations located along the isolated 

10-mile (16km) track in North Wales, offering railway passengers the option to travel by steam train or bus; which means that the bus service is really in addition to the train service – rather than a replacement – but we won’t split hairs. There will also be hundreds...