Tag Archives: Transpennine Express

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

“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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New Timetable, ten days in

So, ten days of the new timetable, and it was to be hoped that it would have settled down by now, and that TPE and Northern would be operating a service similar to the one in the published timetable. It … Continue reading →

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New Timetable, Day Three

Yesterday’s posting was quoted at length in the Examiner, and now we feel under pressure to write something about today so as to help them fill their newspaper with things other than the random musings of that weatherman of theirs. … Continue reading →

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