As I've had a fair few questions and insights about it, I'm going to tell you what occured with my train journey from Liverpool to Darlington today.

Before even getting on the train I had some problems, the screens in Liverpool Lime Street Rail Station were telling me that my train was leaving from Platform 9 when in actual fact, it was leaving from platform 5. Then the screen on platform 5 was saying something different to what should be displayed.

Just after 11am, I boarded my train home which was the 11:11 TransPennine Express service to Newcastle. Got so far out of Liverpool Lime Street Rail Station but we then came to a halt, we weren't moving for a few minutes then we got a announcement to say that another train had broken down on the line, we then awaited further infomation. 5-10 minutes later we were moving again, however we were now being diverted with us now serving Manchester Piccadilly instead of Manchester Victoria.

As we got towards Manchester, we got another announcement saying that we were nowing stopping at Manchester Oxford Road and serving Manchester Victoria and that we would be joining with another train, I didn't hear the rest of the announcement. After about 10 minutes here, we left and went so far back down the line and sat for about 5-10 minutes.

We were then informed about problems on the line but again I could barely hear the announcements, all I could get was we would now not be stopping at Huddersfield and but we were stopping at Dewsbury. I was not really certain what exactly was going on but was given bits of info over Facebook as to what was going on. After leaving Manchester, the train slowed right down with us making slow progress.

We were advised that the other train we joined with would be heading to Scarborough and we would be continuing onto Newcastle, however as we left Leeds it became apparent that this was looking not to be happening anymore as upon departure from Leeds we got a announcement saying that it was the (whatever time) service to Scarborough and it was uncertain what would be happening to the passengers travelling on the Newcastle service. As we were approaching York we got a announcement to say that the service would now be terminating at York and were given details of onwards travel with us wanting to head to Newcastle being advised to get a certain CrossCountry service to reach Newcastle and passengers for Scarborough being advised to go to another platform. A member of TPE staff on the platform with the terminated service then advised us that the TransPennine arriving on Platform 9 was heading to Newcastle, so as we were on Platform 10, this required some sprinting through the tunnels underneath to catch the train from Platform 9, annoyingly after being on a train for so long, my left knee was killing, so I had to do a rather strange run to catch the train. Had to stand from York to Darlington with some woman with a annoying american or canadian accent being stood right next to me in front of the doors which with me feeling drained was like nails down a chalkboard.

We finally arrived into Darlington at around 15:25, we were originally due to arrive at around 13:40, so we were 1 hour and 45 minutes late arriving into Darlington, meaning just shy of 4 and a half hours straight on trains apart from the 5 or so minutes in York.

Got home just after 16:15 after getting a Northern service home from Darlington.

Thanks for reading, safe to say I'm claming Delay, Repay for this journey. Felt absolutley drained.

Trains were:
TPE - 185138: Liverpool - York
TPE - 185144: York - Darlington