Recent content by davehsug

Just back from a few days in Blackpool and the situation is mixed. Lots of crush loading as the service clearly isn't adequate for peak season, I dread to think what the illuminations will be like. There are "conductors" positioned on many of the central tram stops, issuing tickets, so that the...

According to the Gazette, the temporary scaffolding around the fire damaged building in Lord Street Fleetwood, is currently being replaced with something more permanent. This should allow the reopening of the road, and allow trams to return to the ferry.

Surely if someone's been overcarried, there has to be an intermediate stop between the boarding stop, and the stop mentioned, excepting those who were supposed to get off before the train departed of course.

I had a complaint about Morrison's giving me a free gift of some "Dots" doughnuts, which it turned out my local store doesn't stock anyway. I complained by email, and got an apology & 5,000 more points. The following week, they actually had some of the doughnuts, and the offer still being in my...

If they continue to insist that it's only the paperwork that has a problem, then surely by now, all of the physical work should have been carried out, and a full service should be running?

Trams are currently only running as far as Fisherman's Walk in Fleetwood, due to a fire in an empty shop building adjacent to the Northbound London Street stop. It looks as though it may be several weeks before the building is made safe enough for operation to resume.

They do seem to be in an awful mess at the moment, for whatever reasons. How quickly the optimism of last summer's improvements has vanished. I can't see the government allowing the system to fail, but once questions of safety start to be raised, concern for the future is only natural.

Apologies, I was thinking more about the Cheshire stations Between Kidsgrove & Cheadle Hume. It's still a very poor show.

Stoke to Manchester hasn't had a Northern Sunday service for over a year, leaving every intermediate station except Macclesfield, with no service at all.

The BT statement makes it sound like it's a service improvement! All for the benefit of passengers. It also seems to imply that this will be the service for the whole of the summer. What a very sad state of affairs. The very least they could have done would have been to increase the frequency of...

Thanks for the replies...I think! Just what I wanted to hear when I'm in Blackpool for a few days from Sunday. Not looking forward to the crush loading in the morning peak to Fleetwood, especially as we have lost the empty trams from North Station, for those on the North promenade.

Just a minor irritation, McCoys 6 pack cheese & onion are consistently unavailable in Morrisons & Asda, at least the one I use. Lots of other flavours, but almost never cheese & onion!

Still no sign of a summer timetable starting. The current 15 minute end to end, with every other tram via North Station, is just not going to cope as the town gets busier. I'm told it's due to the number of trams out of service, which seems like pretty shocking stuff from "the tram operator of...

As someone who uses the station a few times a year, I find it difficult, as I can't stand for extended periods. There aren't that many seats inside, and they're usually occupied. Some seating outside, but given the amount of rain they get, not always possible. This queuing is really annoying...

Morrisons went through a period of about a month earlier this year when they were giving out printed discounts, £6 off £60, that sort of thing. There was a week when I had one on the app & one on paper, the voucher being better. I had to make sure at the till that they were applying the best one.