Digital Society Winter Edition with Markus Schulz @ O2 Academy Leeds Friday 3rd Dec

I'll be absolutely fucking livid if this doesnt go ahead/the trains are cancelled

Think it could be a potential train earlier, Both managers are off Friday and my workmate has said i can leave early so gonna make sure i can get there.

Fuck getting home, it's getting there that counts.

Fucking rights!!

apparently any ticket between the 1-6th dec is valid on any train. i've signed up for text notifications incase anything happens. Looks like im gonna be jumping on an earlier one if i can help it. Dont mind getting stranded down there, not back at work till tuesday!

I heard off my mate, so i havnt actually seen it myself. However, i cant imagine shes got any reason to lie? My train is booked for 7:45, gonna head to the station about 7 to see if i can get on anything earlier.

"Ticket acceptance

First TransPennine Express customers with tickets dated from Wednesday 1 to Friday 3 December will be able to travel on alternative trains up to and including Monday 6 December.

To find out whether this will impact your journey and to get alternative options planned for you, please use the National Rail Enquiries real time Journey Planner, or call TrainTracker on 0871 200 49 50.

For the latest rail travel news, why not follow National Rail Enquiries on Twitter, or find us on Facebook."

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/sabe9463c3e24d1fb671cc4abe0ff1db/details.html

Right at the bottom of the page.

I'm on the 11:15 to Leeds and it's only going as far as York. Have to blag a train from there on.

Have they gave a reason why mate?

The 11:15 was delayed due to points freezing on the bridge over the tyne. Anyone going past York and onto Manchester airport were told to swap trains and go over to platform 6. Were moving now and just got into Darlington, so all in all only delayed by 45mins.

Cheers Adam. Temperature's crept up to -2 degrees here now so hopefully the points problem will disappear. Our train's due at 18.40 so gonna get there for 6 and try and jump on the earliest one we can!

http://www.journeycheck.com/tpexpress/?action=search&from=&to=

Looks like all the trains from Newcastle to Manc Airport are bing terminated at York, But they are also putting on trains from York to Manc Airpot.

Yeah that's the train we were meant to be on. God knows why there were two trains going the same route but I'm glad there was. We're just pulling into York now. The snow is fucking constant all the way down like.

By the way when we got on the 2nd train, the driver came over the tannoy and said "anything that is orange, white and looks like a ticket is good enough for us"

HAHA Tremendous!!!

Doesn't really make sense stopping the trains at York but then running another train from York?!?!?!

Must me something to do with the actual rail not allowing the train to swap. There must be another one on the opposite end of the station that can go onwards mate.

We haven't even had our tickets checked yet and were off at the next stop lol.

Staffing?

If they are experiencing problems with delays and possibly cancellations they probably don't want their staff getting stranded over the other side of the country. So they will be using it as a way of getting staff & drivers doing the same amount of work but not on long legs. So the drivers from Newcastle area instead of doing a shift going from Newcastle to Manc then getting stranded, will do Newcastle - York - Newcastle? Just an idea and i'm probably wrong.

Actually probably spot on mate!