Yesterday, boiling. Got a LNR train from birmingham which got delayed slightly cause of splitting with another service but yeah didnt get further than wolves for an hour cause of a signal failure which just happened after we arrived. And luckily for us, broken air con. Only way of getting air was by keeping the doors open. Finally when we get on the move we find out that the rest of the stops on the journey are getting cancelled apart from crewe and staff on board hadnt a clue untill a virgin train staff member told them at stafford it was cancelled. So we were told to stay on the train to crewe and take the returning service back to stoke while virgin told people for stoke to stay on the platform at stafford.
So in a boiling hot train we go to crewe and get off the train and wait for what seemed like hours while the hour later LNR crewe train and a 3rd train a cancelled liverpool one just added even more passengers to the mix so after going from platform to platform stranded train to stranded train to a bus stop. We were told a train was finally running with an actual air con. 3 hours later arrived at my home station. Sweaty and tired.
Its frustrating how the yesterday and todays heatwaves were predicted a week ago and TOCs only put plans together the night before