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A stressful journey after Christmas in Cleethorpes.

Due to problems I was having with this blog (I couldn’t get posts to publish) I wasn’t blogging over Christmas but wanted to share this thread of tweets I wrote the day after the journey in question

“Yesterday’s train trip home was a bit chaotic thanks to #StormGerrit
Some delays meant getting home nearly an hour late.
@PassAssistance doesn’t work without station staff and by the time I got to Welwyn North there was no one for Stevenage to call luckily I’m only blind 1/

@TPExpressTrains the wonderful lady from Cleethorpes looked after me well and got me on my train safely.
Arriving at Doncaster was a bit chaotic due to seasonal crowds and multiple people needing assistance. Luckily I could get off myself and one of your staff helped me. 2/

@TPExpressTrains the staff member stayed keeping me updated with the delays to me next train until at last the @LNER staff member finally came having just left her previous passenger needing assistance 3/

@LNER your staff member at Doncaster was brilliant keeping me up to date with delays and taking me to my seat. And the staff on the train coped well with the delays, stressed passengers and broken loo. Weather conditions meant we got to Stevenage after my onward train left 4/

Unfortunately somewhere along the line no staff member was near as I got off the train @PassAssistance and I had to search the platform quite difficult for a blind woman. I finally found someone who helped me warning me there wouldn’t be assistance at my home station 5/

Overall despite the seasonal chaos and the best efforts of #StormGerrit the journey was less stressful because of the staff assisting me and the kindness of the other passengers. 6/

@LNER if there’s one complaint it would be that reservations were ignored which meant another family with 2 disabled members found themselves scattered and only the kindness of other passengers moving kept them together. 7/7”

Top left the live Christmas tree in the waiting room at Cleethorpes Station was covered in white baubles of various shapes (snowflakes, long thin “drops”, and spheres. Top right sitting on the train looking out the rain spattered window at the Cleethorpes sign on the platform just before moving off. Bottom left the old fashioned reserved “ticket” on my seat on the train from Cleethorpes. Bottom right waiting for my last train in the waiting room at Stevenage station taking a photo of the view outside the window of the walkway to the taxi rank and car park (station side of the road) with the Gordon Craig Theatre behind it (on the other side of the road).

It wasn’t the best ending to my Christmas in Cleethorpes but overall it wasn’t too bad a journey.

Until next time.

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