Trains - why are they so unreliable ? Three of us from work attempted to travel from Newcastle to London last Tuesday. We sat on a train in Newcastle for an hour and a half before they cancelled all the trains. We re-booked our meeting (nothing important, we're just trying to sort out £270,000,000 worth of finance for renewable energy projects) for today and did slightly better than last week by getting to York before the plug was pulled...
It's 2022 and we can't get trains to run between London & Newcastle or vice versa. Same fault each time - overhead cable damage. As a former overhead linesman for the electricity board the likely culprit is lack of maintenance. To add insult to injury they were also off to Edinburgh, so we had to take the most convoluted route home.
How the government is going to lure us out of our cars and onto public transport when it just doesn't work is beyond me. We have very little chance of meeting our carbon reduction targets if we can't get public transport functional. I noticed as we
eventually got back to Newcastle the date on the water tank at the side of Central Station - 1891. I bet the trains not only ran, but were even on time back then.
Simply not good enough
