Category Archives: Slaithwaite

Apparently It’s OK To Overcharge

Mark Wylo‎ to TransPennine Express Trains 20 June at 22:34 · Can you explain why the TPE website has issues with the season ticket fares to Slaithwaite? The only two options shown for a 7 day season ticket are £53 and £56.40. Yet … Continue reading

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Cause For Celebration

Congratulations to TPE on managing a whole day on 20th June without any cancellations affecting Slaithwaite & Marsden. We think this may be first day this has happened since the new timetable came in.

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A Month In, And It’s Still No Better

The timetable debacle (and just for the record it needs to be said that the service provided by TPE has been and still is every bit as bad as Northern) is a failure of management on a colossal scale. We … Continue reading

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Lateness and Cancellation Data, First Two Weeks Of New Timetable

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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