Northern: Standards

(asked on 11th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many trains scheduled to stop at Rainford station have been cancelled as part of Northern’s recently imposed emergency timetable; which of those cancelled services were replaced with a rail replacement bus service; and whether it is his Department’s policy that a rail replacement bus service should charge the same fare as the service it is replacing.


This question was answered on 14th June 2018

The 4th June emergency timetable has reduced Rainford’s Mon-Sat train numbers from 18 in each direction to 15.

How many cancelled services have been replaced by a bus is an operational matter for Northern.

It is established practice in the rail industry that the same fares are charged when rail replacement bus services are in use.

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