London Euston to Glasgow six hours late with Avanti

[@scottc1589]

You summed up my limited experience with Avanti perfectly: "Good Staff, crap management."

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment.

[@rhodriwilliams7962]

I was travelling back to North Wales on that very day from Euston. My 1502 to HHD was Cancelled at EUS, so had to change at Crewe. I heard many people having such travel disruptions and opted to travel on the ECML instead of the WCML to Scotland. I travelled on the ECML for the first time on the 30/09/2024 and had eye opening views. Thank goodness for the Pennines and the Newcastle - Carlisle lines!

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment. Cancellation due to "Traincrew issues" is also very common.

[@arthurvanos2403]

I'm looking forward to your Italian adventures Clive!

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks - I'm working on it now, a lot of clips to review and edit. It's going to be another couple of days. A lot of captions to type, as well!

[@colinriley123]

I agree with you. Things can always go wrong, its how you are able to react that separates the TOCs. LNER is miles ahead of both Avanti and GWR.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

I've been told that as Avanti are simply paid by the Government to operate trains, they have no interest whatsoever in passenger welfare.

[@Oddly1970]

Avanti are absolutely clueless when in London heading to Scotland go with LnEr.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment - yes! What an idiot I was coming out of St Pancras and looking at King's Cross station, yet still going to Euston because I imagined I'd get home sooner.

[@AndreiTupolev]

It's the same with all of Britain's incompetently managed train operators - no contingency planning, no flexibility built into the schedules or staff scheduling, management that just shrugs and goes "DO NOT TRAVEL!!!!!!" 🤷‍♂️🥺

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment, as always.

[@fhwolthuis]

Nice video, but the vomume of your voice is pretty low

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment Frank - I did turn it up on the editing software but it wasn't enough obviously.

[@jimmillington8299]

Newsflash: a broken rail has diddly squat to do with Avanti. Like most delays on WCML, it is Network Rail's responsibility, ffs!

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment. I clearly stated twice in my film that it wasn't Avanti's fault - the problem seems to be their lack of resiliance to deal with these things. I also mentioned that the staff on the ground were doing a good job in difficult circumstances.

[@AndreiTupolev]

That was what he said, but the way the train operator treats its "customers" is up to the diddly squat train operators. Actually that'd be a good name" "Diddly Squat Trains: we don't give a flying hoot about you 😀"

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

@@AndreiTupolev Thanks for your support!