Nope, no one other than the booked crew.
Wilson commonly took the overnight sleeper to Penzance. Although confidential, at Taunton station manager and shed foreman were very much up and on duty in the middle of the night, as they flashed through, and a standby crewed Western was on shed. Just in case ...
Only if that is the narrative you are trying to find!
I thought you meant that you had cancelled the train due to the PM travelling on it.
Clearly stated after it. There was service disruption!
Yes but i did not realise the disruption had caused the service to be cancelled.
Yes. He is in Grimsby today so i think it unlikely he would of travelled on that particular train, it was probably just the media who were using it by changing at Doncaster. Helicopter would have been the best option in my opinion.
Why start the thread then...?
The media report at about 0915 was worded in a way that suggested to me that he was travelling by train to the North. I did not know at the time that he was heading for Grimsby. I thought he might be visiting Leeds.
He could still get train to Doncaster and have cars waiting there, it all depends on where he was wanting to visit, so train could still of been viable
Yes it would of been viable but i don't think he would of taken the option.
Not this one. He's just a rich nonentity.
I suspect it was perceived that you cancelled the train BECAUSE he was due to travel on it - which, of course, you didn't. If it had been Johnson, he would probably have been lying about travelling anyway...
Nah just the normal crew. I’ve had the PM and the leader of the opposition. You only know they’re there when you see them escorted off at Euston.
So he must have travelled on a later service if what the reporter said was true regarding the service he was due to travel on been cancelled. I assume he would of had a coach for him and his entourage so if he travelled on a later service, would other passengers in the coach he used be told to move?
Boris Johnson famously was on a train in Manchester Victoria that was delayed due to no driver. People were walking along the train taking pictures of him.
It does. (Or certainly did in my day.)
I'm not sure that he can use RAF helicopters for non-governmental purposes. Though he has paid for his own for personal journeys before.
I suppose that that means that Wilson, having been elected on a manifesto commitment to halt ‘major’ rail closures, when his four Transport Ministers consented to 241 proposals for withdrawal (of which around 70 weren’t even in Dr Beeching’s Reshaping Report) and over 2,000 route miles lost their passenger trains, they must infallibly be considered to have been ‘minor’ closures.
That doesn't mean that it was taken seriously by the government or the press. Indeed, as @jfowkes said upthread, some would argue that it still isn't being taken seriously enough.