My stepson together with his girlfriend and baby daughter are travelling on a LNER service which is 9 coaches instead of 10 and there are no reservations on this train. So the reservations they made long ago so that they could have a reasonably comfortable journey to London has led to a horrible pushing/shoving boarding experience together with no seats.
When I look at LNER’s Travel Updates there seem to be a lot of different train consists together with no reservations. There also seems to be the odd 5 coach train running about mainly to Leeds. It also seems that the Harrogate (Leeds extensions) are often cancelled.
Is this due to teething problems with Azumas and the problems with withdrawing one fleet and introducing another? Is is this due to new trains being less reliable due to software and other issues? Or is this due to having two basic types of Azuma trains with some of them being 5 coaches which, when things go wrong, creates an inflexible situation?
In other words what is going on?
Will it ever be resolved or are they the new TPE for the Shambolic Introduction of New Trains Award?
When I look at LNER’s Travel Updates there seem to be a lot of different train consists together with no reservations. There also seems to be the odd 5 coach train running about mainly to Leeds. It also seems that the Harrogate (Leeds extensions) are often cancelled.
Is this due to teething problems with Azumas and the problems with withdrawing one fleet and introducing another? Is is this due to new trains being less reliable due to software and other issues? Or is this due to having two basic types of Azuma trains with some of them being 5 coaches which, when things go wrong, creates an inflexible situation?
In other words what is going on?
Will it ever be resolved or are they the new TPE for the Shambolic Introduction of New Trains Award?