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The issue with TPE is how they deal with issues, usually in a bad way. Last week a rail defect caused problems on the Hudderfield - Manchester route during the morning peak. TPE, the primary TOC on the route, responded by cancelling some services but provided no replacement road transport for...

Their performance is very rarely any good, particularly on the North Transpennie routes in my experience. Although credit where credit is due, my one this morning actually turned up 1 minutes early. There must have been a blue moon last night.

I find all this Northern bashing so frustrating living on a route that once was Northern but is now majority TPE. It sounds to me like they are trying to handle the situation in a managed way. TPE are cancelling random services left right and centre recently due to train crew shortages but very...

I'm just of a belief that whenever First Group run something they always seem to find a way to mess it up. Maybe it's because where I live our main local bus route is run by First, with buses often missing or late. In the early evening though when Stagecoach take over it manages to run fine...

Oh god please no, not First Group. Having endured Transpennie Express on a daily basis for just over a year now, if First do get the West Coast Mainline I predict a fall in reliability = a fall in passengers = a fall in profits = franchise being handed back.

A possible development on the WCML... www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/could-soon-two-fast-london-16407336

I hope TPE don’t get the Liverpool - Nottingham service. Living on a line with only TPE services (except a couple during the peaks) they are only ever on time during a blue moon. As I write this my real-time display set to my local station is flashing like a disco with delayed TPE services. I’ve...

This was showing on the national rail app and was also incorrectly announced over the PA at Manchester Piccadilly. The Manchester Oxford Road and Manchester Victoria stops didn't happen but it got me wondering, would it possible for a train to leave the bay platforms at Manchester Piccadilly and...

The Stalybridge to Huddersfield line Northern stoppers have been suffering a lot too recently. On my way back from a work meeting via Huddersfield on the 24th, the 17:15 left early after turfing everyone for intermediate stations off, with the Guard assuring two ladies the 17:15 would be...

I mean the OAP passes. I was thinking along the lines of the Merseytravel one my Gran uses. She refers to it as her bus pass, hence my use of the term. Her's is a disabled one so she can use it anytime and my thinking was that these would remain the same. I'm thinking of say a 5pm to 6pm...

It's worth considering that some travelling from/to Wigan will now use the TPE service from North Western, freeing up some space on the Bolton route. I've not travelled via Bolton myself since the change as it's a lot easier for me to use TPE because I connect from/to the St. Helens Central...