Since I have been out of the country for a while I haven't really been inconvenienced by this incident, up until yesterday. Despite it happening a couple of months ago, the whole operation still seems to be mildly shambolic.
Take the 2115 SHF-BEV. I had cause to catch this train last night from Sheffield to Cottingham, and from my experience, quite a few people tend to travel through to Cottingham and Beverley from Doncaster, Sheffield and Meadowhall. I had a choice of taking the 2207 Hull Trains from Doncaster, which misses the 2300 HUL-BEV by 6 minutes, or extending my journey by 90 minutes on an all-stops bus. I opted for the train and irritatingly saw the last Cottingham train pull out of Hull completely empty as we were held on the approaches. Now, surely it wouldn't take too much thought to retime this train to leave 10 minutes later so the connection can be made? I do not feel an arrival time on the bus of 0034 is acceptable either. I paid for a local bus and arrived at home about 10 minutes later than normal, but it's the principle of paying for the bus that I am against.
Meanwhile, today at Doncaster station I requested a copy of the revised timetable for Hull-Sheffield to be told that they didn't have any printed copies. Meanwhile, another customer was told that the rail replacement bus times varied between the copies on the station and on the system.
Sadly, yet again, it appears to be another case of poor coordination between different TOCs, resulting in unnecessary inconvenience for paying customers.
just an idea
