'There's disruption every single week' - Frustrated passengers say limit on London trips is just the latest problem on the trains
manchestereveningnews.co.ukCommuters at Piccadilly Station this morning were fed up with more rail disruption — which they say happens ‘every week’. Today, Avanti West Coast — the rail operator that runs trains from Manchester to London — cut services to just one per hour, down from the usual every 20 minutes.
The limited timetable will be in place 'until further notice' the rail operator said. It has been brought in after train drivers decided to pull their ‘goodwill’, which is a practice whereby they work on off-days and over contracted hours on a voluntary basis.
In effect, the railways rely on ‘goodwill’ to operate — so its withdrawal has played havoc with schedules. READ MORE:Man dies after shooting in Moss Side with huge police cordon in place However, commuters the Manchester Evening News spoke to did not blame the drivers for the disruption.
Instead, they characterised today’s chaos as another brick in the wall of misery which has beset Britain’s rail network this year. “I’ve had disruption loads of times,” Callum Atkinson, waiting for the next train to the capital, said. “I am on a summer internship and I get the train to Euston and back every week and I have had it disrupted every single week. “It’s very, very frustrating.
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