Earlier in the day, Friday, December 4th, we recorded with joy that Northern rail had manged to get their station announcement system working again after an interval of at least 3 months.
However by the evening the information system had ceased to operate again.
But we live in hope that this essential service to passengers will be restored.
Meanwhile, SMART awaits a reply from Heidi Mottram the managing director of Norther Rail to explain why we cannot have the benefit of announcements. As we wrote on November 18, it will be some months, if ever before she gets around to replying based on previous experience.