After a day riding the rails of West Yorkshire, I was back at Leeds station a couple of hours before my train back to Peterborough. As with my journey north, I was able to get an Advance Single, just three days before travel, for £29.05 travelling in first class, and so when I got back to Leeds, I headed towards LNER’s first class lounge.
After getting back from our trip to York I wanted to try and have another go experiencing and reviewing LNER’s weekday first class service and so decided to make another trip to Yorkshire and visit the city of Leeds.
Whilst this post is going to contain the usual review of my journey and the on-board service, it also covers the worst delay I have experienced in my years travelling on the railway.
After a week of changeable weather, we were unfortunately greeted with grey skies and heavy rain for our trip to York. When planning the trip, I had wanted to ensure we got a full day in this fabulous city, however this did mean a very early alarm to ensure we made LNER’s 0708 departure to Edinburgh. Having managed to get our tickets for just £20 each one way, first class, I was more than happy to put up with the early start!
Now this blog has been up and running for a few months, and I’ve reviewed a few trips, both on trains and in the air, I’ve decided to change how I score the various journeys I go on. Hopefully the new ratings system I’ve decided on will better look at all the relevant criteria and better place trips on the league tables that will soon go live on the website. I should also be able to use this scoring system on all journeys whether they be by train or plane, in standard class, first, economy or business.
This is not the post I was supposed to write and the journey I completed was certainly not supposed to happen. In fact, I had already written the original introductory paragraph of this post before the plan changed.
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