Northern Rail leave disabled man stranded

No you are not getting off the damn train

Many that may follow me on Twitter how much I hate Northern, the rail franchise that run the train service in the North of the UK. Trust me I am neither in the minority nor on my own thousands hate them too. No, let me correct myself there – ten of thousands hate them.

The cock up on a monumental scale each day and then say well we are sorry. Then do the same thing again the day after. For me that makes them not sorry. And all the while that they cock up they are taking millions out of the public service for their German Government owners.

So I wanted to let people know of the most hideous cock up last Friday. The 6.48am from Wigan to Alderley Edge last Friday a lady got on the train at Wigan in a wheelchair. He was put on at Wigan with a pushchair via a ramp they put on between the platform and the train. He is at the mercy of the staff to put the same ramp out at Manchester, so he can get off.

 Anyway last Friday they didn’t do this and he was left on the train to Stockport. Half an hour extra. Then the train was delayed there and a passenger went for the guard. They then had to take him off move him to another platform and get a train back to Manchester Piccadilly. He was over an hour late for work.

Sorry for the language at this point – but what a fuck up! Really leaving a disabled person on the damn train.

If this was an isolated incident you may say damn what a cock up, but these types of things happen all the time including the cancelled, delayed, short forming trains every day. I have read online where people are now getting sacked due to the continuous delays and cancellations as well.

The simple answer is that they should not be allowed to take the millions out of the public service if they run it in this way. We are paying for failure, I am sure the phrase is pay for success – therefore the law needs to be amended.