Robertj21a
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So when did the train companies go out seeking buses/coaches ? 72 hours - 48 hours - 24 hours ??
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So when did the train companies go out seeking buses/coaches ? 72 hours - 48 hours - 24 hours ??
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ChiefPlanner
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Certain people locally in St Albans do that in any case. Really is a joke.
MotorcycleAlan
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You can't accurately predict what damage a storm will cause, so we have to trust those with the most detailed information and professionally trained to make the best plans they can. What you can accurately predict is the related discussion will descend into a petty argument, often by people who have very little information or experience. Can't people here just be polite and civil, rather than slagging off people with different views?
bramling
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Why the thing about buses and coaches? The way things are at the moment I’d rather be in a train than a bus or coach, and it isn’t going to get very far if the roads are blocked.
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As have passengers to make alternative arrangements, like travelling home yesterday instead of today, as I did. Admittedly by car, but I didn't want to be travelling through mid Wales in a storm.
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Any ETA on when this will reopen as it seems a major job to fix?
Grumpy Git
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Yep, just got tipped of the 1H45 at Piccadilly P13.
Shared a black cab with four others for a £33 fare.
Cheeky bugger went the long way via Stretford as well. I couldn't be bothered to have an argument
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Howardh
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When it states a "station is closed" does that mean trains are, or are not, running through it (ie not stopping for pax)?
God knows - had a look and The Trainline are the same.
There's a big issue here with customer comms, quick look at Twitter shows customers ignoring TOC advice because of NRE and Trainline.
Howardh
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Unless you were in a desperate hurry, there's the tram! Although I've no idea what the service is like today to the airport.
EDIT City - Airport is a "good" service, other parts of the metro are disrupted though.
Howardh
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contractador
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I sympathize with anyone stuck in stations etc organising RRB at 72 hours is going to be patchy best and very luck dependent.
Whilst not an insider I can speak from personal experience trying to organise an extra coach for my wedding summer Saturday (not peak time) with 6 weeks notice to go. Out of about 20 reputable companies I contacted across Sussex, only 3 had any availability due to coaches or driver's being fully booked out.
That was with 6 weeks notice. Whilst the train companies may have more influence and financial resource than myself, I would be genuinely not be surprised to find they would struggle to secure bus/coach travel at such short notice. The companies just don't keep large quantities of drivers and coaches spare for such an eventuality.
PS one of the 3 quotes was reasonable and all went well for wedding transport.
Grumpy Git
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Tram would have been an option if I'd have had another 30 minutes leeway, (I'm just about to board my flight). Plus security at MAN is notoriously awful at the best of times.
For £7 in the circumstances, the taxi was a good choice.
Will I get a delay repay from Northern?
Bletchleyite
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Precisely where, pray tell, are the floods on the M6 between Preston and Lancaster?
Bletchleyite
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One assumes something on them. The wires themselves can't be on fire, they are metal with ceramic insulators.
The travel advice has been there since Thursday PM, it was reported locally and nationally by the press. Tickets on most TOCs could have been used on Saturday and can be used on Monday too. Some have clearly just ignored the advice given. It's not sanctimonious to point that out.
Very rarely things like this can happen due to Mother Nature. It's a fact of life.
Grumpy Git
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It's relatively quiet here in Wilmslow now. Road outside my house flooded because the drains are useless, but that'll be gone in another hour. Windy still but nothing beyond normal now.
Wakefield was quiet both on the roads and at Westgate station today - hereabouts passengers seem to have taken heed of the advice not to travel. Guard on the northern service to Doncaster is giving advice for onward travel as part of ticket inspection, sterling job.
londonmidland
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EUS-LIV and EUS-PRE services all suspended until further notice as a result of a Pendolino pulling the wires down.
Grumpy Git
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Good to know, (although this is routine on Swiss railways in my experience).
Grumpy Git
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Any idea where?
Are there floods between the depots and the M6 though?
6026KingJohn
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Looking at Traksy, 1M52 York- Biringham ran via Tamworth & Kingsbury to Coleshill Parkway, is now starting as 1S45 1230 Birmingham - Dundee (good luck with that
) There may be a queue for the buses as only the 170s were planned to terminate there (Leicester/Cambridge/Stanstead & Nottingham). Presumably a single Voyager as Coleshill Parkway has 6x20m platforms according to Quail maps.
londonmidland
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South of Winsford.
lord rathmore
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Well said mate. Far too many insulting replies creeping into these Forums. And imo, far too much moaning and complaining about everything on the railway!
Open train times maps shows 1A22 and 9G52 just south of Winsford
EDIT: 1A22 11:47 Liverpool Lime Street to London Euston (Pendolino 390 138); 9G52 11:17 Preston to London Euston via Birmingham (EDIT: 390 001 per later post #310).
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