Category Archives: timetable changes

Every Time You Think It Can’t Get Any Worse

Posted on June 28, 2018 by admin

We have now had six weeks of massive disruption. Before the timetable change, Northern inflicted large scale disruption on passengers, with cancellations, bus replacements taking three times as long and even trains omitting our stops in order to make up … Continue reading →

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Lateness and Cancellation Data, First Two Weeks Of New Timetable

Posted on June 4, 2018 by admin

Here’s a spreadsheet showing the late running, cancellations and part-cancellations at Slaithwaite and Marsden over the first two weeks of the new timetable. Red is cancellations, and there’s quite a bit of that. Blue is part cancellations, in the form … Continue reading →

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Northern Rail’s emergency timetable

Posted on June 1, 2018 by admin

Following the New Timetable Debacle, Northern Rail has come up with a recovery plan which involves planned cancellations of upwards of 150 trains per day. No trains which call at Slaithwaite or Marsden are affected. During the daytime between the … Continue reading →

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“Too little too late … the trains are still horrendous near Huddersfield”

Posted on June 1, 2018 by admin

“Too little too late … the trains are still horrendous near Huddersfield” [From the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 31 May 2018] A train firm’s apology for its disastrous performance over the past two weeks, is “too little, too late”, a rail … Continue reading →

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