Six months on from Transpennine Express being taken back into public control (and yes, we know that the Department for Transport had quite a lot of control even before that date), some press and media coverage of the Huddersfield to Manchester service and of Huddersfield being the worst station in the entire country for cancellations.
[Whether Huddersfield actually is the worst station in the entire country for cancellations depends on how it is measured – over what time period, is it just the 500 busiest stations being looked at, are “P-coded” trains (pre-cancelled the night before) included and is it the percentage of cancellations or the total number or something which takes account of both. ]
First, Sky News
‘Unreliability is creeping up’: What it’s like travelling on some of the worst rail routes – YouTube
Train network: ‘It’s getting worse at the moment, the unreliability is creeping up again’ – YouTube
Also, The Observer
Maybe some other media outlets will be covering roughly the same areas in the next week or so.