for many rail commuters, like these in marston in west yorkshire, getting around has become an ordeal and notjust on strike days. trains are always cancelled, you can t rely on them. i go to work to manchester, i only go one day a week but it s still a nightmare. i would probably go in a bit more to work if i could get the trains, it s absolutely shocking at the moment. i don t feel like it s train service at all. it s just incredibly dire and stressful for commuters. train cancellations in britain have reached record levels. the industry blames covid delaying the training of drivers, staff sickness, and factors like winter weather, plus the knock on impact of strikes. transpennine express, which runs services around the north of england and into scotland, has been making dozens of cancellations each day for months. the northern powerhouse partnership, campaigning business group, claims today that the operator s problems are costing the economy in west yorkshire £2 million a
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can see lots of isobars on the charts driving the showers in. some of the heaviest ones we can expect affecting more southern counties of england, towards the south west and wales and some running of the receipt to north west england. some of the showers will push northwards and eastwards forming bands, some of them heavy and rumbles of thunder. in between, good spells of sunshine and the wind is still a feature. temperature 12 to 15, 16 degrees which is very mild for the time of year. this evening and overnight, showers rattle through on a fairly brisk south westerly as the night wears on the winds will ease down somewhat and the shower activity eases through central and eastern areas. still going across the south on the west and some of them could be quite heavy. temperatures four to 11 degrees. nowhere particularly cold because of the strength of the breeze. on wednesday, probably fewer showers around for much of the country with the low pressure system sitting to the west
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