Was also mentioned in a feature on 'BBC Radio 5 Live' in the second half of the finance programme aired between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. this morning. The person interviewed was keen to make the point that TPE's poor performance has, perhaps, thus far largely gone under the wider media radar (as TPE don't serve London or the South East).
Northern still getting off lightly it seems. A quick look at Sheffield on Sunday shows cancellations on the Hallam line again as well as Lincoln.
Also featured in a full-length interview on BBC Radio 4's 'You and Yours' programme at lunchtime today, with Helen Pidd the Northern editor of the Guardian and Tony Miles of Modern Railways. The latter indicated that the current practice of refusing refunds and delay repay payments for services cancelled after 22 00 the previous night is now undergoing serious legal examination and that an announcement on this can be expected in the near future.
The issue is with the purported ability to vary the contract without notifying passengers, let alone with any reasonable length of advance notice.
Actually in my opinion its the opposite - whenever the regional or national media ever talks trains in the north, they always focus on Northern, show footage of Northern, interview passengers of Northern, talk about pacers etc
Interesting to see how you get on. I was thinking of doing another this week but didn't. I might have another one next week before the offer ends.
And Brabin posting about a cancellation due to a fatality, isn't particularly a good look.
And re-tweeted by a Labour MP as well without mentioning it was due that reason.
For good chunks of the day Northern are the only operator given there's an EMR strike. At least they've put on extra carriages to make some services 5 or 6 carriages.
The senior management of Manchester Airport have observed publicly that TPE have failed to run over 25% of their trains to the Airport, which has in turn seen a significant drop in people arriving at the airport by train.
Watching the response form junior transport minister Huw Merriman yesterday and during the debate it was brought up that Steve Montgomery the MD of FIrst Rail is also the chair of the RDG and one negotiating on behalf of the TOC's with the unions in the national rais dispute .
That’s way too simplistic. Whilst there is government influence in the situation, there’s been a huge amount of utterly inept management by WorstGroup. The fact the MDs of both Avanti and TPE were fired is good evidence of that.
Unfortunately it doesn't quite work that way. Sheffield to Cleethorpes is only signed by Sheffield and Cleethorpes traincrew and it would be a significant undertaking for other depots (say, Liverpool or Manchester) to learn the route. There's already been a substantial amount of training undertaken for Manchester to learn to Sheffield, and Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield to learn the CLC.
The Cleethorpes-Sheffield section is doing little worse most days than Sheffield-Manchester.
Agreed - and that’s where my bit about government influence applies (as a negative, as is standard for governments).