SteveP29
Member
Came home from Blackpool on Monday.
As you may know, the Rebellion Festival was on over the weekend there (would have loved to have seen some of it, but at £38 for a day ticket, no ta)
Anyway, on Monday everyone was leaving, so the queues at Blackpool North were massive.
The 11:03 to Liverpool and the 11:08 to York were both 2 car DMU's and as you can imagine, filled very quickly.
As we were to change at Preston, either of these trains would have done us.
As we didn't arrive early enough (we were at the station at 10:45), we couldn't get on either train.
We were told there was a coach in the car park that would take anyone going to Preston, so we boarded.
The trains would have taken 24 minutes and if we'd caught the 11:08 as planned, we'd have had 20 minutes to spare in Preston.
As the bus took an hour and 5 minutes to do the journey (it went straight to Preston, not stopping at the Layton, Poulton le Fylde and Kirkham and Wesham stops), we missed the 11:53 Virgin Pendo to Waverley and had to wait till 12:58 for the next Edinburgh train (which was a TPE Class 350)
Station staff at Preston were unaware that this bus had been laid on and were only able to advise of the next train to Edinburgh
After asking Northern Rail (on Twitter) why the bus took so long and not yet having a reply after they said they'd look into it, is there anything else worth mentioning to them?
We were only inconvenienced by having a less comfortable train to travel on from Preston to Edinburgh and that we were an hour and 10 minutes later in arriving there, but some people may have missed connections elsewhere/ meetings etc and it has to be said, what is the point of putting on a replacement/ additional bus if it can't keep to the train timetable?
As you may know, the Rebellion Festival was on over the weekend there (would have loved to have seen some of it, but at £38 for a day ticket, no ta)
Anyway, on Monday everyone was leaving, so the queues at Blackpool North were massive.
The 11:03 to Liverpool and the 11:08 to York were both 2 car DMU's and as you can imagine, filled very quickly.
As we were to change at Preston, either of these trains would have done us.
As we didn't arrive early enough (we were at the station at 10:45), we couldn't get on either train.
We were told there was a coach in the car park that would take anyone going to Preston, so we boarded.
The trains would have taken 24 minutes and if we'd caught the 11:08 as planned, we'd have had 20 minutes to spare in Preston.
As the bus took an hour and 5 minutes to do the journey (it went straight to Preston, not stopping at the Layton, Poulton le Fylde and Kirkham and Wesham stops), we missed the 11:53 Virgin Pendo to Waverley and had to wait till 12:58 for the next Edinburgh train (which was a TPE Class 350)
Station staff at Preston were unaware that this bus had been laid on and were only able to advise of the next train to Edinburgh
After asking Northern Rail (on Twitter) why the bus took so long and not yet having a reply after they said they'd look into it, is there anything else worth mentioning to them?
We were only inconvenienced by having a less comfortable train to travel on from Preston to Edinburgh and that we were an hour and 10 minutes later in arriving there, but some people may have missed connections elsewhere/ meetings etc and it has to be said, what is the point of putting on a replacement/ additional bus if it can't keep to the train timetable?