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How many cancelled services have been replaced by a bus is an operational matter for Northern.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