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Plea for better trains, please
10:42am Friday 18th January 2008
IT WAS interesting to hear someone from the Association of Train Operating Companies on Radio Four this week saying how the January fare increases were justified as stations and services are getting better and faster and new trains are being brought in to operation.
So where's Knutsford station's improvements and why are 1985 Pacer trains (which were built on a limited budget for short journeys) being used on a route which is around 90 minutes in 2008?
Personally I've not been all that impressed with some of the new trains that have been brought into operation in the area.
London Midland, which serves Hartford and Crewe, and Transpennine Express, which serves Warrington, Manchester and Stockport, have both recently acquired new trains built by Siemens.
The seating in standard class is hardly suitable for journeys as long as Liverpool to London and Manchester Airport to Edinburgh, which are the among the routes that the new trains are used on.
TREVOR FRANCIS Churchfields Knutsford
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Customer not Cattle, Knutsford says...
4:52pm Thu 24 Jan 08
Jackie Jaidy, Bethlehem Palestine says...
8:59pm Fri 25 Jan 08
Jackie Jaidy, Bethlehem Palestine says...
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Customer not cattle, Knutsford says...
4:17pm Mon 28 Jan 08
The 7.39 from Manchester Piccadilly to Knutsford was announced as running 28 minutes late, then 36 minutes late, then 42 minutes late, then 50 minutes late....then surprise suprise it was cancelled. Then the next service was ten minutes late. I actually felt sorry for the nasty little children who got on the train this morning (Altrincham/Hale) as most of them had to stand and they were at least ten minutes late for school (they were probably quite happy though). It's bad enough meesing cattle sorry communters about without making kids late for school (when they need all the education they can get)! Northern's excuse for this mess this morning.......err they couldn't be bothered giving one.
£10.20 well spent?
Customer not cattle, Knutsford says...
4:17pm Mon 28 Jan 08
The 7.39 from Manchester Piccadilly to Knutsford was announced as running 28 minutes late, then 36 minutes late, then 42 minutes late, then 50 minutes late....then surprise suprise it was cancelled. Then the next service was ten minutes late. I actually felt sorry for the nasty little children who got on the train this morning (Altrincham/Hale) as most of them had to stand and they were at least ten minutes late for school (they were probably quite happy though). It's bad enough meesing cattle sorry communters about without making kids late for school (when they need all the education they can get)! Northern's excuse for this mess this morning.......err they couldn't be bothered giving one.
£10.20 well spent?
Edd, Knutsford says...
10:31am Mon 18 Feb 08
Not using a Sprinter train means there are only three doors which makes it practically impossible for people to get off the train when the school children are trying to board.
Edd, Knutsford says...
10:31am Mon 18 Feb 08
Not using a Sprinter train means there are only three doors which makes it practically impossible for people to get off the train when the school children are trying to board.
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Customer not Cattle, Knutsford says...
4:52pm Thu 24 Jan 08