amahy
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I have recently been disgusted by the treating of smaller stations in times of disruption.
On the Calder Valley line, operated by Northern, one such station, Walsden, normally has one train per hour, served by the stopping service from Wigan to Leeds via Brighouse (although regularly on diversion via Bradford at the moment due to the TPRU), plus peak time additional calls of the Blackburn to Headbolt Lane service.
On one such day recently, the station was left without a service from Manchester for over 4 hours, due to signalling system issues around Bradford.
Even after these issues had been fixed, there was still a gap of over 2 hours before the first service stopped at the station, even when there were other services running along the line, just not scheduled to stop. Is it really that hard to put in a special stop order, so that people can get home, without having to walk over a mile from a neighbouring station?
There have been other days when "not to stop" orders have been submitted for Walsden and other smaller stations, in order to make up time, but still stopping at larger stations such as Hebden Bridge, which have a 3 trains per hour service.
Surely skipping the larger, more well served stations would be more logical?
A reduction of 3 to 2 trains per hour should overall be less impactful than a reduction from 1 to 0 trains per hour.
On the Calder Valley line, operated by Northern, one such station, Walsden, normally has one train per hour, served by the stopping service from Wigan to Leeds via Brighouse (although regularly on diversion via Bradford at the moment due to the TPRU), plus peak time additional calls of the Blackburn to Headbolt Lane service.
On one such day recently, the station was left without a service from Manchester for over 4 hours, due to signalling system issues around Bradford.
Even after these issues had been fixed, there was still a gap of over 2 hours before the first service stopped at the station, even when there were other services running along the line, just not scheduled to stop. Is it really that hard to put in a special stop order, so that people can get home, without having to walk over a mile from a neighbouring station?
There have been other days when "not to stop" orders have been submitted for Walsden and other smaller stations, in order to make up time, but still stopping at larger stations such as Hebden Bridge, which have a 3 trains per hour service.
Surely skipping the larger, more well served stations would be more logical?
A reduction of 3 to 2 trains per hour should overall be less impactful than a reduction from 1 to 0 trains per hour.
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