YP Comment: Train fiasco

But just when you thought the rail network couldn’t become any more of a laughing stock, Northern Rail found itself at the centre of yet another farce yesterday when a train driver pulled out of the station at Burley in Wharfedale... without the conductor.

Passengers were left stuck in carriages while a taxi was summoned to pick up the guard. The fiasco, described by the company as an “operating incident”, caused one of the busiest services of the morning, from Ilkley to Leeds, to be terminated at Menston, half way down the line, and led to long delays for commuters travelling afterwards between Ilkley, Leeds and Bradford.

To cap another bad day at the office for Northern Rail a train fault then caused cancellations on the Skipton line. You really couldn’t make it up.

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