Category Archives: Marsden

TPE Managing Director Apologises For Unacceptable Level Of Service

Matthew Golton, TPE’s managing director was questioned at the Rail North Committee on 31st May 2022, about the recent and current levels of punctuality and reliability (in case anyone comes back to read this in future years, both of which … Continue reading

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Timetable Changes from 15th May 2022 – Cuts to the Saturday service

The timetables changed from 15th May, and TPE were keen to point out that across the network they are running an additional 33 services every weekday. [That’s disregarding cancellations, planned or unplanned, but let’s not go there.] What they didn’t … Continue reading

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Timetable Changes from 15th May 2022

Timetable changes are effective from 15th May. Whether the actual service provided will bear more than a superficial resemblance to the published timetable remains to be seen. Based on the past five months, probably not. Link to new timetable is … Continue reading

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TPE Service Disruption – worse than 2018 levels of cancellations

Services across the network over recent weeks have been subject to delays and short-notice cancellations due to a lack of available staff partly caused by industrial relations issues. TPE have stated that We are doing all we can to keep … Continue reading

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