At the risk of drawing a sneering response from the Rail Minister Tom Harris, I’d like to have a little moan about my train journey yesterday. I spent the Bank Holiday weekend up in the Lake District and seeing as it takes an absolute age to get down the West Coast line on a Sunday or a Bank Holiday, we decided to go for a walk in the Dales and then have me catch the train from Northallerton to London. The 18:36 from there was meant to get me into London at 21.10.
When I arrived at the station, though, I was told that the train on which I was booked and had a seat reserved on had been cancelled. Apparently, Grand Central had insufficient rolling stock to run the service which they’d be selling tickets for—the man at the station told me they were cancelling one in three trains.
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