Commuters on Britain’s worst-performing railways waste 165 million hours a year sitting on delayed trains, an investigation has revealed. The probe by Channel 4’s Dispatches found passengers in the North spend an extra 40 minutes a day on sluggish trains run by crisis-hit operators including Northern and TransPennine Express. Government sources told Dispatches this is because those involved have been unable to agree a way forward for the rail network. In a survey of 2,000 travellers, Dispatches found 60 per cent said trains offered worse value for money than a year ago. A spokesman for the Rail Delivery Group said rail companies were ‘improving journeys’ by adding new services, upgrading carriages and investing in infrastructure.

Source: Daily Mail March 16, 2020 00:38 UTC