Grand Central Cancellations

[prd101]

I've just noticed that Grand Central have cancelled their 1230 Sunderland to KX service today.

Does anyone think this is likely to happen tomorrow as well?

Also, I was wondering, is there any options if someone has a Grand Central Only ticket (in my case York to Kings Cross Off Peack Rtn - £61) to travel on other services in the event of cancellation?

Obviously I can travel on the other GC services that day, but would GC refund tickets, or could they be used on East Coast services somehow?

 

[railwayperson]

Pah! We can run services on the heritage railway I work at in the snow, even with frozen points, and on time! Why is the national rail network incapable of running through snow?

 

[royaloak]

Because if you have a frozen set of points they can be "got at" within 10 minutes, where-as on a proper railway they may be miles away.

 

[railwayperson]

Because if you have a frozen set of points they can be "got at" within 10 minutes, where-as on a proper railway they may be miles away.

We are a proper railway we just don't happen to run modern junk

 

[ChrisTheRef]

To answer the original question :roll: :

I think you'd be perfectly within your rights to jump on EC services. If you get charged extra on board, I'd just pay up, then send the tickets to GC

 

[ralphchadkirk]

We are a proper railway we just don't happen to run modern junk

On a heritage railway the points will be worked mechanically and thus cannot be far away from the signal box. On the mainline, they may be 10-15-20 miles away.

 

[Royston Vasey]

To answer the original question :roll: :

I think you'd be perfectly within your rights to jump on EC services. If you get charged extra on board, I'd just pay up, then send the tickets to GC

Normal practice is that GC staff are on hand at the station to dish out replacement interavailable tickets.

To the OP, hope you have a smooth journey.

 

[hairyhandedfool]

DO NOT JUST JUMP ON BOARD AN EAST COAST SERVICE!!!!

You should find a representative of GC (or failing that another TOC) before boarding another TOCs service, to arrange alternative transport means. This could be an EC service, but if you just jump on board and no arrangement has been made with EC, you could end up with a hefty bill. TOC specific tickets cannot be excessed for use on another train operators service.

 

[ChrisTheRef]

DO NOT JUST JUMP ON BOARD AN EAST COAST SERVICE!!!!

You should find a representative of GC (or failing that another TOC) before boarding another TOCs service, to arrange alternative transport means. This could be an EC service, but if you just jump on board and no arrangement has been made with EC, you could end up with a hefty bill. TOC specific tickets cannot be excessed for use on another train operators service.

Disagree.

If GC cancel their train, you're perfectly within your rights to take the next one to get to your destination

 

[Lampshade]

Disagree.

If GC cancel their train, you're perfectly within your rights to take the next one to get to your destination

Only with advance bookings, and I'm pretty sure that's TOC specific as well.

 

[attics26]

Disagree.

If GC cancel their train, you're perfectly within your rights to take the next one to get to your destination

Yeah the next GC - as its a GC ticket!

 

[ChrisTheRef]

And when the services are several hours apart?

 

[attics26]

And when the services are several hours apart?

no difference - next GC service - unless GC supply tickets for other tocs or its the last GC of the day when alternative agreements are in place

 

[91101]

There are two options open to GC, that is to arrange Ticket Acceptance with EC and Northern for passage for their customers, this was done far too frequently for NXEC's liking back in the Summer of 2008 when GC were in a mess and I believe that NXEC stopped this practice, around the same time of the incident that NXEC refused EMT ticket acceptance when the MML was up the spout.

Now GC have to issue full fare tickets for their customers to use EC.