which are going to be cancelled the following day. their pre amended timetable is a fantasy. i ve come to york to travel up to newcastle with the mayor of west yorkshire, but she s not here because her transpennine express service was cancelled too. 45 minutes later than planned, she arrives. rosie, hello. hi. so good to see you. how you doing? we jump on a service north and discuss transpennine woes. we were able to get a meeting with the transport secretary and tell him, from our lived experience, the chaos and the cancellations and how it s holding us back. he s heard what we ve said and now it s a political decision, obviously, for the government. this is a problem across the north. ava nti west coast is underperforming. northern is running a reduced service. where do you begin? i mean, there s a wall at the front of the station that i regularly bang my head on when i arrive to find no trains. robert often travels
and the cancellations and how it s holding us back. he s heard what we ve said and now it s a political decision, obviously, for the government. this is a problem across the north. ava nti west coast is underperforming. northern is running a reduced service. where do you begin? i mean, there s a wall at the front of the station that i regularly bang my head on when when i arrive to find no trains. robert often travels from warrington to manchester. i ve lived in london and essex all my life previously. if that happened down there, there would be uproar. i think there would be a revolution, but up here, itjust seems to be accepted. transpennine express acknowledged things aren t good enough, but say they are pulling out all the stops to make things better. but what is the government doing? we have worked closely with them to train more drivers to double the number of drivers that were being trained. but there is also an issue, i d say, and i m not the only person to make this point, wit
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today that recommends we think of a better way to do that next winter. harriett baldwin, thank you for joining us. poor rail services were caused by a toxic combination of problems mps were told during today s transport select committee. in recent months, commuters faced the cancellation of thousands of trains with transpennine express, ava nti west coast and northern all affected. let s hear more about this i m joined now by robert samson, senior stakeholder manager of transport focus thanks for being with us. no surprise then. thanks for being with us. no surprise then. thanks for being with us. no surrise then. ,., ., ., ., ., ., surprise then. good afternoon. no surrise. surprise then. good afternoon. no surprise- we surprise then. good afternoon. no surprise. we have surprise then. good afternoon. no surprise. we have been surprise then. good afternoon. no| surprise. we have been monitoring the british timetable by trans pennine and avanti west coast since it came into b
need story about rail strikes that are going to be taking place in the run up to christmas causing huge disruption to people wanting to travel during that time. rmt enhancing three additional strike days. d0 enhancing three additional strike da s. , enhancing three additional strike das. , ., days. do you support them in doing that? the days. do you support them in doing that? the rmt days. do you support them in doing that? the rmt announcing. i days. do you support them in doing i that? the rmt announcing. people that? the rmt announcing. people have seen a huge cost of living crisis. the public sector has had real terms pay cuts with companies making huge profits. we have had different ministers and none of them have really got around a table to resolve this dispute. i had to get the avanti west resolve this dispute. i had to get the ava nti west coast resolve this dispute. i had to get the avanti west coast twice a week at least. the company is not delivering on its c