Freightliner locos 66550 and 66951 at Lime Street today during the start of the engineering blockade
(01/10/2017 08:35)Gordon V Wrote: [ -> ]66590 at Lime St today
So what are your duties for three weeks Gordon?
Freightliner loco's involved this weekend: 66546, 66550, 66551, 66590, 66597, 66951
Colas loco's involved this weekend: 56087, 56113, 70802, 70806, 70811, 70815
56s on engineers in Merseyside in 2017, who'd of thought it? =D
We were promised 'quality' rail replacement bus services during this blockade, well unfortunately 'quality' is not how I would describe my journey this afternoon from Liverpool to St Helens Central. First of all, the operator was a coach company from Walsall, West MIdlands - where are the modern vehicles form a certain local bus operator that rail passengers in other areas of the City Region have enjoyed when they have had major blockades recently. Then at Huyton, there was a driver changeover which took approximately 15 minutes (why this couldn't have been done at either end of the journey is a mystery), in Prescot, the coach nearly turned into a street with a dead end (and if I hadn't have intervened, it would have done). With all these delays, it missed the train connection at St Helens Central by a good 10 minutes. Hardly 'quality' is it.
(01/10/2017 19:14)St Helens Rider Wrote: [ -> ]We were promised 'quality' rail replacement bus services during this blockade, well unfortunately 'quality' is not how I would describe my journey this afternoon from Liverpool to St Helens Central. First of all, the operator was a coach company from Walsall, West MIdlands - where are the modern vehicles form a certain local bus operator that rail passengers in other areas of the City Region have enjoyed when they have had major blockades recently. Then at Huyton, there was a driver changeover which took approximately 15 minutes (why this couldn't have been done at either end of the journey is a mystery), in Prescot, the coach nearly turned into a street with a dead end (and if I hadn't have intervened, it would have done). With all these delays, it missed the train connection at St Helens Central by a good 10 minutes. Hardly 'quality' is it.
Is that the one where a passenger complained that he'd just missed the train for Wigan, moaning about being late for work?
Nice thing about that coach was it was nice and cool with part leather seating
Some trips are not even running and some coaches are missing out stops, has been very poor all round tbh