Northern Railway Last Train Problems at Bridlington

[DunfordBridge]

I don't think there are any tourist buses at 2am on a Monday morning

I was travelling from Exeter to Stevenge. The train into Paddington was delayed, arriving after 01:00 meaning the last train from Kings Cross to Stevenage was missed. I needed a taxi from Paddington to Stevenage but despite the guard on the train to Paddington collating all the info en-route this wasn't passed on leaving the staff at Paddington to sort things out. It was over 2 hours before I was in a taxi...

No, not much call for tourist buses at those times. Your story just shows how easy it is get things wrong in terms of customer service. I am now wondering if there was something in the passenger charter that you should have had a hotel room booked for you.

 

[bengley]

Let us just get a few things straight. The driver cannot proceed unless he has both a signal for his route that is not showing danger and has received the signal from the guard that the train is ready to start once platform work has safely been completed. There will be variations for driver-only operated trains.

It just so happens that platform work was not complete on this occasion. The train driver would have had no concerns about punctuality if the guard had used all the options available to him or had approached me prior to our arrival in Bridlington informing me of the situation rather than me having to track down the guard when it was appropriate for me to do so. Everyone would have been happy (or happier) and the train driver would not have felt the need to stare at me as if I had just arrived from another planet.

Cheers for explaining to me (a train driver) how departure from a station works, I never would have guessed!

 

[DunfordBridge]

Cheers for explaining to me (a train driver) how departure from a station works, I never would have guessed!

Indeed, for all I know, you might be a Northern driver who signs at Hull Paragon, but thanks for not disputing my main point.