Tonight I will mostly be submitting Delay Repay claims to Northern Rail.
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There are reasons why Mancunians are pissed off with the rail services.
The only reason the other city centre station — Deansgate — isn't in the list is that half the services that stopped there five years ago don't anymore and it's closed at busy periods like this evening (it closed at 6pm).
BBC NewsGreat Britain's worst major stations for cancellations namedThe latest figures show almost one in 10 trains were cancelled at Manchester Victoria.
Just an ordinary evening at Humphrey Park. Which is why I've been sat on this bus an hour.
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It looks like Northern Rail's "Do not travel" advice to passengers on Saturdays has been extended to Fridays too.
The number of trains Northern have cancelled this afternoon, they could have put more than two coaches on this one.
It's Monday morning so Northern is providing a cornucopia of cancelled trains due to "A short notice change in the timetable," which is a meaningless form of words designed to make it look as there is method to the madness.
This will be followed later on by a lot of cancellations due to a lack of train crew, the train crew having been stranded by short notice changes in the timetable.
If you're wondering why so many trains are late running or cancelled due to lack of train crew it's because the train crew are stuck waiting for late running or cancelled trains.
It's Saturday so the local train service owes more to the rules of roulette than a timetabled schedule.
Northern's train services are the long, wet Sunday teatimes in November of the nation's soul. Not apocalyptically awful, just full of the banal certainty of cold water being poured on any sparks of joy.
Northern's trains are in meltdown this evening. Sunshine at Bolton.