Currently in the middle of an interesting situation travelling from Leeds to Liverpool.
The 1230 TPE Leeds-Liverpool was turned back at Leeds to provide an eastbound service due to trespassers at Brighouse, with passengers directed to either the 1312 Northern or 1315 TPE services. I’m currently on the 1312, which is a 3-car 195 and probably three times before departure from Leeds, the guard has advised that anybody with a TPE-only ticket would need to leave the train or pay for a new full fare ticket.
Now I was under the impression that Northern and TPE were accepting each other’s tickets during disruption. I accept that a single cancellation isn’t necessarily disruption, but we’re talking about a train being cancelled after 40 minutes in the platform at Leeds and a trespass incident and subsequent congestion leaving the Bradford route as the only Leeds/Manchester line available. The reason given, quoting broadly, was to allow passengers to board further down the line- as things stand, were about 75% loaded leaving Bradford with only Halifax, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, Todmorden and Rochdale left to call.
I just wonder whether this isn’t an unnecessarily confrontational attitude to take and whether the guard hasn’t made a rod for his own back.
The 1230 TPE Leeds-Liverpool was turned back at Leeds to provide an eastbound service due to trespassers at Brighouse, with passengers directed to either the 1312 Northern or 1315 TPE services. I’m currently on the 1312, which is a 3-car 195 and probably three times before departure from Leeds, the guard has advised that anybody with a TPE-only ticket would need to leave the train or pay for a new full fare ticket.
Now I was under the impression that Northern and TPE were accepting each other’s tickets during disruption. I accept that a single cancellation isn’t necessarily disruption, but we’re talking about a train being cancelled after 40 minutes in the platform at Leeds and a trespass incident and subsequent congestion leaving the Bradford route as the only Leeds/Manchester line available. The reason given, quoting broadly, was to allow passengers to board further down the line- as things stand, were about 75% loaded leaving Bradford with only Halifax, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, Todmorden and Rochdale left to call.
I just wonder whether this isn’t an unnecessarily confrontational attitude to take and whether the guard hasn’t made a rod for his own back.
