Apparently train service in the Lake District is shut down, replaced by buses. Unclear how many weeks or months this may last. See https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/04/northern-rail-closure-of-lakes-line-brings-misery-to-tourist-firms
Posted by
Yorkshire
1279 posts
What a staggeringly inept, not mention embarrassing, enormous cock up this is.
My apologies and sympathies to anybody, from home or abroad, unfortunate enough to need to use this train company which apparently isn't running any trains for the foreseeable future.
Reading the linked Guardian article it would seem there is at least a partial responsibility of central government, but the Transport Secretary seems keen to point to the finger of blame at everybody else and not acknowledge any responsibility at all.
Smashing.
Ian
Posted by
white plains, ny, usa
4140 posts
Hopefully this does not portend a twenty first century incarnation of The Beeching Axe .
Posted by
Yorkshire
1279 posts
Hi Steven -
My thought also. But if the government talks of banning some companies from bidding for future franchises and with plenty of the companies that run the current franchises baling out early or others, Transpennine for instance, saying they will lose hundred of millions of pounds through to the end of their franchises, then it's easy to see a scenario where there's nobody who'll run these services. The current government is ideologically opposed to taking the lines back into public ownership, so it's also easy to picture a scenario where they will close them.
Worrying in the extreme.
Ian
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I am planning to go from Bath to Windermere via train in early July....how far up can you get by train? Just to Oxenholme and then they have buses to take you to Windermere? If you have a Britrail pass will it cover the cost of that bus or do I need to budget that in?