Trains and Planes in the UK in May/June

[Ming the Merciless]

It is utterly disingenuous to take one piece of a comment and attempt to create controversy with it.
Part of what I said - continuing with another's post was:
Trains in the UK may be horrible compared with - say - anywhere in Europe, but at least there are trains.

Nonsense, you said they were horrible. How have you found them horrible compared to Europe? It is a reasonable question.

 

[Andy in Germany]

So...

I looked on TPE and there is "Major" engineering "Between Saturday May the 23rd and Monday May the 25th Between Darlington and York" which will "affect services". Nowhere does it say what time on Monday, or what "Affected" means. Probably Armageddon.

How good are Network Rail at handing over on time? If I plan to arrive on Tuesday, is it likely all the trains will still be in Chaos?

 

[Mike_P]

So...

I looked on TPE and there is "Major" engineering "Between Saturday May the 23rd and Monday May the 25th Between Darlington and York" which will "affect services". Nowhere does it say what time on Monday, or what "Affected" means. Probably Armageddon.

How good are Network Rail at handing over on time? If I plan to arrive on Tuesday, is it likely all the trains will still be in Chaos?

Overrunning engineering works are not unknown. Depends on what they doing; if its involving infrastructure largely untouched since being built its only when they start messing with it do they know the full scale of what is involved. Same with the road network with often incorrect locations of mains services underneath.

 

[Andy in Germany]

So the question is, how much is that likely to affect trains Manchester-York, bearing in mind the affected section is to the north of York...

This is the bit I dislike: too much guesswork...

 

[Mike_P]

Difficult to say. Through trains from the Airport to York generally go to and from Redcar and leave the ECML at Northallerton midway betwen York and Darlington.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Tickets booked. There seems to be a service between Man. Airport and York so I booked those tickets too.

Oddly I can't get any times for the tram between Piccadilly and Victoria on the 25th of May. Don't they run on Bank holidays?