SirAlf
Member
I know there's a long running thread on Northern Sunday cancellations but this is slightly off-topic and I wondered whether there is such a thing as delay repay in reverse. Let me explain...
I went from Chesterfield to Workington to watch a rugby league match which kicked off at 15:00 on Sunday (yesterday), it would normally finish about 16:40. Not possible to get there and back in the same day so I travelled out on Saturday and had a B&B for Saturday night
On Sunday I found out that there were multiple cancellations on trains through Workington. It seemed like about half the trains were being cancelled and the situation was seemingly changing by the hour
I'd planned my journey using the National Rail personalised timetable and to get home I had 3 options:
17:06 via Barrow and Manchester
17:34 via Carlisle and Manchester
18:00 via Barrow and Manchester
Anything later meant I couldn't get back to Chesterfield that day. So I asked at the station, I was told that the 17:06 was cancelled and the 18:00 was only going as far as Whitehaven. So that left the 17:34 but the chap in the office couldn't categorically say that it would run, which meant me risking being stranded or taking the 16:29 via Carlisle. Couldn't check because rugby grounds tend not to have internet so I decided not to risk major journey difficulties and caught the 16:29. I know the railway would have had to get me home but probably not that day
This meant that I had to leave the rugby with 20 minutes still to go. So I paid around £100 in train fares and B&B to watch a rugby match and I missed quite a lot of it – there were 3 tries and I only saw one of them
Have I any chance getting compensation from Northern because I felt annoyed that I didn't get to see all of what I travelled to see?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts
I went from Chesterfield to Workington to watch a rugby league match which kicked off at 15:00 on Sunday (yesterday), it would normally finish about 16:40. Not possible to get there and back in the same day so I travelled out on Saturday and had a B&B for Saturday night
On Sunday I found out that there were multiple cancellations on trains through Workington. It seemed like about half the trains were being cancelled and the situation was seemingly changing by the hour
I'd planned my journey using the National Rail personalised timetable and to get home I had 3 options:
17:06 via Barrow and Manchester
17:34 via Carlisle and Manchester
18:00 via Barrow and Manchester
Anything later meant I couldn't get back to Chesterfield that day. So I asked at the station, I was told that the 17:06 was cancelled and the 18:00 was only going as far as Whitehaven. So that left the 17:34 but the chap in the office couldn't categorically say that it would run, which meant me risking being stranded or taking the 16:29 via Carlisle. Couldn't check because rugby grounds tend not to have internet so I decided not to risk major journey difficulties and caught the 16:29. I know the railway would have had to get me home but probably not that day
This meant that I had to leave the rugby with 20 minutes still to go. So I paid around £100 in train fares and B&B to watch a rugby match and I missed quite a lot of it – there were 3 tries and I only saw one of them
Have I any chance getting compensation from Northern because I felt annoyed that I didn't get to see all of what I travelled to see?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts