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Wigan NW-Chester & Llandudno Service

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Old 29th September 2010, 15:13
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Wigan NW-Chester & Llandudno Service

What ever happend to this Service Irember it in the early 80s & 90s in the 90s it was operated by Class 158s I nevwe rember anything saying it was beeing withdrawn its a service that could well be put back in to place two trains an Hour Between Wigan & Warrington is not enough theesedays so adoes anyone know why it was withdrawn.


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Old 29th September 2010, 23:28
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Seem to be cutting back on alot of routes over the network........
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I last travelled from Chester to Wigan and return, as long ago as some 5 years, changing at Crewe in both directions.

On the return leg, I was making my way to the train at Crewe and for Chester, having been held outside Crewe for an Unknown reason, and a good 10 minutes, when the despatcher chose to let the Chester service depart, After claiming there were no more passenges for it, leaving around 30 of us fuming, in the fact he never checked his facts first. When challenged, he simply laughed and walked off. I can't repeat on here what I told him of his attitude.

Needless to say, I have Not travelled that way since.
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I last travelled from Chester to Wigan and return, as long ago as some 5 years, changing at Crewe in both directions.

On the return leg, I was making my way to the train at Crewe and for Chester, having been held outside Crewe for an Unknown reason, and a good 10 minutes, when the despatcher chose to let the Chester service depart, After claiming there were no more passenges for it, leaving around 30 of us fuming, in the fact he never checked his facts first. When challenged, he simply laughed and walked off. I can't repeat on here what I told him of his attitude.

Needless to say, I have Not travelled that way since.
Dont blame you buddy!! ide be fuming too.........
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Ouch! When that happens it is very irritating, and you end up waiting at least 30 mins for something else if not an hour. Was the service to Crewe running late or Chester train departed early? If the latter then that sounds a really odd thing to do they should've just waited.

Had similar experience at Leicester few months ago. Coming in from Crewe, change at Nuneaton, Leicester and another train to Loughborough. The XC to Leic was running 5-10 mins late. Anyway, it managed to get into Leicester literally a minute before departure of the Lboro EMT train on platform 1. Usually the Cambridge/Stansted XC's get platform 2, so I could've just crossed over door-to-door with the EMT but it ended up arriving into platform 4. No chance! So all conecting pax missed the EMT service, but I guess they have to depart in their given time slots, just irritating they moved the XC to the other side of the bridge.

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Old 7th October 2010, 15:38
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Ouch! When that happens it is very irritating, and you end up waiting at least 30 mins for something else if not an hour. Was the service to Crewe running late or Chester train departed early? If the latter then that sounds a really odd thing to do they should've just waited.

Had similar experience at Leicester few months ago. Coming in from Crewe, change at Nuneaton, Leicester and another train to Loughborough. The XC to Leic was running 5-10 mins late. Anyway, it managed to get into Leicester literally a minute before departure of the Lboro EMT train on platform 1. Usually the Cambridge/Stansted XC's get platform 2, so I could've just crossed over door-to-door with the EMT but it ended up arriving into platform 4. No chance! So all conecting pax missed the EMT service, but I guess they have to depart in their given time slots, just irritating they moved the XC to the other side of the bridge.

There a Bugger for altering platforms at Crewe most often tahn not without Notifiaction ether that or you can't always here the announcment along with not a great deal of time to get from say platform 11 to platform 12 not good if your not a 100% on your feet.
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