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I got caught up in the train failiure too mate, bit rubbish.

although 90% of the time the trains work fine.

I took my in laws over with the missus and the trains failed i asked for a refund in which the guy did and i used the money for a taxi which was £3.00 cheaper

Does anyone have any details of what actually happened ? A total train failure is pretty rare. They can usually "limp" to the next station and de-train. If it happenend under the river, it might have been a good walk to JS or HS !!

Anything in the local rags or radio ?

Just interested from a technical point of view and wondering how they dealt with it/made a total cock-up of it ?

Broken-down train brings rush hour chaos to Merseyrail
Jun 4 2008 Liverpool Daily Post


A BROKEN-DOWN train – which had already suffered technical difficulties on its journey into Liverpool – brought chaos to Merseyrail services at the height of yesterday afternoon’s rush hour.

Some passengers said they faced delays of up to two hours on the Wirral line, after the train broke down on a set of points close to James Street station at 5.12pm.

This meant no trains could get in to or out of Wirral. Services from New Brighton and West Kirby stopped at Birkenhead North station, while those from Ellesmere Port and Chester could get no further than Birkenhead Central.

An empty train was used to push the broken down train out of the way, enabling the line to be reopened at 5.51pm.

However, the knock-on effects caused by the earlier delay meant that train services in to and out of Wirral did not fully return to normal until an hour later at 6.51pm.

No bus replacement service was provided, however large queues of people formed on St George’s plateau in the hope of finding an alternative way of getting to Wirral.

A Merseyrail spokesman said: "It couldn’t have happened at a worse time as it was right in the middle of the peak hour.

"We decided not to put on a bus replacement service to Wirral both because it was in the peak and there were not that many buses available, and because we knew it would be dealt with quickly."

Haha nice one; I remember at Asset the trains were pretty good, but I only paid for them once in a blue moon! Nowadays you get a £30 fine for that!!

Many thanks Colgo.

Sometimes id never pay to get on the train to assett but then i started cause the clicky's got more frequent.. Ahh well spose everybody has done it in there lifetime lol..

Lol it was just after I left that the tickys seemed to increase in numbers and fines all gradually started to come in, so I was lucky!