Experiences of taking an ebike on a train?

[Kingfisher101]

If this true???
not doubting you, but I can;t find anything about it online

Its true, I work there.

 

[This Wreckage]

Not done by a local station manager. The ban was put in place by Network Rail, and applies to all stations owned/operated by them.
Leeds being just one.

Thanks for letting me know.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Its true, I work there.

Think the manager would think to put something on the website
Possibly in the bit about bike parking facilities??

or is that too much to ask??

 

[Dadam]

Whether it's a local station policy or National Rail's it should be widely publicised on their website!

I was asking on the forum about locking a bike up at Leeds last week. As it happens the bike I was planning to lock up isn't an ebike but it could have been as I have 3, and I never mentioned the the type of bike. I'd have been extremely miffed if I'd turned up and seen those signs!

 

[mjr]

The signs saying they're banned have been in Leeds station for over a year.
This bit you already know, because you started an argument before on the same subject.

Not what I asked, but thanks for the personal attack and you can go back on ignore.

 

[classic33]

Meanwhile, LNER sponsor the Leeds e-bike hire scheme! Leeds Beryl e-bike hire scheme links up with rail firm LNER - BBC News – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3qxpw9769o

And they are stored outside, on the street. Not within station grounds.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just read in the Echo that all ebikes are banned from MerseyRail trains and stations
including the bike parking

Except folding ebikes
which is a pain - I can see why they don;t distinguish between "proper" ones and dodgy DIY ones - the staff can do without the arguments
and not "cool dude" would be seen dead on a folding ebike so they are less likely to be dodgy

but it is a pain

 

[mjr]

and not "cool dude" would be seen dead on a folding ebike so they are less likely to be dodgy

I wouldn't be so sure. I've started seeing some horrible-looking lash-ups on recent trips to London. Technically, they're still folding bikes, but won't fold properly with the fat front tyres, and there's no way the hub-motor wheel or rack-taped battery came with the bike.