Trains

I booked through trip.com and they take an admin charge..
The cancellation was through a signal fault apparently

Quoted from lukeo

I booked through trip.com and they take an admin charge..
The cancellation was through a signal fault apparently

Delay repay is claimed through the train companies, you can still claim delay repay even if you have booked your ticket through another retailer, also delay repay does not charge any admin fees or anything.

Too late now but something to remember for the future

Thanks for that... For all of my sins I've booked a train for Swindon away, this time through the trainline . Com

I'm in communication with trip.com at the moment and looks like I'll be getting a bit more back

By all accounts TrampPeasant Excuse have quit bothering about their customers, they know they've lost the contract and deservedly so.
I hope Abellio who are tipped to take over perform better.

Quoted from lukeo

Thanks for that... For all of my sins I've booked a train for Swindon away, this time through the trainline . Com

I'm in communication with trip.com at the moment and looks like I'll be getting a bit more back

Train was cancelled. Last time I try it. So I've wasted £30 on a family ticket and will cut my loses at that and never try again.

It's taken them many years of work (Thatcher era and since 2010), but signs appear to be that the Tories have finally managed to break the country as all the privatised industries are now failing. Massive bills to the government following the failure of many energy companies who couldn't cover their losses in the pretend market created to give the illusion of choice. Water companies have stripped all the money out of the system that they could to give to shareholders and now pump excrement into the waterways at the drop of a hat.

Postal service has gone to excrement. The chaos during the first couple of years of the pandemic was understandable, but the management spent £400 million on a share buyback in 2021 rather than investing in new technology and now they are trying to screw the postmen over to turn them into gig workers to compete with the likes of Evri/Hermes.

Social care massively underfunded because the block grant to the councils who pay for it has been hacked back again and again, the NHS teetering on the brink thanks to underfunding leading to crumbling buildings, not enough beds and a complete lack of forward planning.

No surprise that the trains have been a basket case for some years but the tipping point has been reached and half of the franchises aren't even pretending to offer a proper service. They are still getting paid whether or not they run the trains!

It comes to something when you've got to give up on making plans because there is little chance of the train service running. A landmark birthday for me this year and we had tentatively discussed taking the train up to Edinburgh for a couple of nights (providing babysitters could be arranged). Had to knock that plan on the head. I don't fancy driving up there as it wouldn't be nearly as relaxing.

What a shitshow this country is becoming.

Well, I am looking forward to my weekly visit to Grimsby tomorrow.

Leave Darlington at 6.34am & arrive in Grimsby just before 10.45am, absolutely ridiculous.

Bus from Darlo to York (Engineering work).
York to Doncaster.
Doncaster to Grimsby & 1 hour waiting in total between York & train to Grimsby.

Wouldn't shock me either if TPE cancel my 9.39am train too. Paying £76 for the privilege too.

Sadly and despicably, the train operators get paid by the government whatever happens, so basically they don't give a fook whether the trains run or not.

What a wonderful government we have.

And that’s why the strikes are continuing Ginny, the government aren’t budging, the RMT are deliberating over the new offer (which is basically the same as the last one) I think they’ll put it out to vote to it’s members, Network rail and the government know a lot of the workforce are struggling financially so will hold out, it’s a sad state of affairs mate.

Quoted from cmackenzie4

And that’s why the strikes are continuing Ginny, the government aren’t budging, the RMT are deliberating over the new offer (which is basically the same as the last one) I think they’ll put it out to vote to it’s members, Network rail and the government know a lot of the workforce are struggling financially so will hold out, it’s a sad state of affairs mate.

I'm getting a clear signal that the government are just trying to derail everything Chris 😏