This is a quick note to plug a new site about the East Midlands Trains Liverpool-Norwich train service - TrainSardine. This is the service I leave the house early to avoid getting. This is a train crowded with four carriages but regularly receives only two (regularly means at least once a week, normally more) and leaves passengers standing on the platform.

I've vented my frustration at this service in the past, so I'll leave it at this for now...

Alex
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It's been a while since I've blogged about the useless of East Midlands Trains (formally Central Trains owned by National Express, now the franchise is owned by Stagecoach) but today they prevented me getting to a meeting on time. The 0816 should get me into Manchester with time to get a banana and chatting to reception before arriving in the office 0850ish. Then I can get down to Didsbury fairly easily for an 0945 appointment. However, when the morons only put on 2 carriages this is still possible - but only if you can get on. Which 90% of the people waiting at the station can't.