Trains

I've just bought a family rail card...
£120 for me and my lad to get to Grimsby and back between Christmas and New year.
£30 for swindon away (cheaper to buy us both a ticket with the rail card then me solo without one, he will just be 'ill' on the day and unable to travel   )

I use the line regularly to come down to Grimsby and without fail, every week - TPE cancel the services. It's an absolute shambles, it's gotten to the point where I'm having to finish work earlier to get an earlier train.

Sooner TPE give the route to another operator who'll actually run it properly, the better.

Good luck mate.

Thanks fella.
I've managed to do it with only 1 change. Taunton - Sheffield - Grimsby (same on the way back)
I have a feeling I may have some issues with sheffield - Grimsby (vice versa) but we arrive in Sheffield around 4.30pm so hopefully there will be a train at some point if ours does get cancelled, the way home is the 10.53 so i'll just make sure i'm awake early and see if theres any trains before it if it is cancelled  

Coming back from London yesterday Doncaster to Clee cancelled and they provided taxis and I was in Cleethorpes 5 minute early!

Had been offered a job interview for a 28k a year position in Stockport, but trains cancelled and was unable to attend, this was back in October.  

The following week I was hoping to attend a job fayre at Manchester United football ground, but same thing again.

Quoted from Nelly GTFC

Had been offered a job interview for a 28k a year position in Stockport, but trains cancelled and was unable to attend, this was back in October.  

The following week I was hoping to attend a job fayre at Manchester United football ground, but same thing again.

Sorry to hear that, it's just a never ending stream of awful service that is affecting peoples lives so negatively. People need to stop falling for cheap stuff like Northern powerhouses, building back better and levelling up. You can't do any of that with a third world public transport system.

Things haven't got any better for TPE, they point blanked refused to stick me and my daughter in a taxi yesterday from Doncaster as they cancelled our service last minute. Tried to fob us off and say it was strike day, when it wasn't.

Shambles of a service.

Well that didn't go to plan
... I was in the platform 30mins early, everything seemed OK, train was 5 minutes delayed... no big issue.
All of a sudden it said cancelled. Then many other trains became delayed and cancelled... Well over 100 people stood at taunton station (not the biggest). 1 lady i got chatting to was from Cleetohrpes and literally had the same trains as me, I hope she managed to get home! We've had to cancel our visit and I was refunded MOST of my money (£90) as they took away a cancellation fee and apparently my tip between taunton and Bristol was non refundable.

Entirely expected, unfortunately! It's a fool's errand trying to plan anything around a train journey at the moment. The franchises have their profits protected by the government so they've got no willingness to negotiate with the unions or, for that matter, to provide a decent service even when there isn't any industrial action. Absolute shambles.

Quoted from lukeo

Well that didn't go to plan
... I was in the platform 30mins early, everything seemed OK, train was 5 minutes delayed... no big issue.
All of a sudden it said cancelled. Then many other trains became delayed and cancelled... Well over 100 people stood at taunton station (not the biggest). 1 lady i got chatting to was from Cleetohrpes and literally had the same trains as me, I hope she managed to get home! We've had to cancel our visit and I was refunded MOST of my money (£90) as they took away a cancellation fee and apparently my tip between taunton and Bristol was non refundable.

If you claimed delay repay you would have got every single penny back.