ReverendFozz
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Hope this is in the right section, Me and my mate were about late running trains and what happens if you miss a last connection i.e the last bus home...
In 2010 I was coming home from York to Durham, the train had been delayed because of a fatality and when I got to Durham I had missed the last bus back home, now this also happened on a run back to Newcastle in 1999, on that occasion I managed to get a lift home. When I got back to Durham I knew there was nobody for me to call on and could not get a taxi as I was flat broke, so I asked East Coast if they could help me out and the guys general attitude was 'There is nothing we can do, your just going to have to walk, I had to walk 12 miles back home', going as far to say 'you should have got an earlier train' well that is a fair enough comment, but I bad been to football and that was the only train I could get after the final whistle, basically saying the situation was beyond East Coast's Control
Talking to my mate the other and he was saying the same happened to him, and he had to walk about 4 or 5 miles, walking is not a problem as I like to go out walking with my dog, but the fact it was close to midnight with god awful s**tty weather and taking 4 hours to walk home, but what is the official rules on passengers missing there last bus or train, do the TOCs have any kind of duty to make sure passengers get home, I mean I am not bothered about it now, but me and my pal would like to know what the rules state and exactly the duty of care to punters or are they perfectly within there rights to turn somebody without any kind of help.
Hope someone can answer the question
Thank You in advance
Fozz
In 2010 I was coming home from York to Durham, the train had been delayed because of a fatality and when I got to Durham I had missed the last bus back home, now this also happened on a run back to Newcastle in 1999, on that occasion I managed to get a lift home. When I got back to Durham I knew there was nobody for me to call on and could not get a taxi as I was flat broke, so I asked East Coast if they could help me out and the guys general attitude was 'There is nothing we can do, your just going to have to walk, I had to walk 12 miles back home', going as far to say 'you should have got an earlier train' well that is a fair enough comment, but I bad been to football and that was the only train I could get after the final whistle, basically saying the situation was beyond East Coast's Control
Talking to my mate the other and he was saying the same happened to him, and he had to walk about 4 or 5 miles, walking is not a problem as I like to go out walking with my dog, but the fact it was close to midnight with god awful s**tty weather and taking 4 hours to walk home, but what is the official rules on passengers missing there last bus or train, do the TOCs have any kind of duty to make sure passengers get home, I mean I am not bothered about it now, but me and my pal would like to know what the rules state and exactly the duty of care to punters or are they perfectly within there rights to turn somebody without any kind of help.
Hope someone can answer the question
Thank You in advance
Fozz