Tonight I was due to meet my daughter at Morpeth Station from the 22.26 arrival from Aberdeen & Edinburgh. Sadly the train was running over an hour late. A rather peculiar point was that the advertised scheduled arrival time of the train had been moved from 22.26 to 22.41, not just for tonight but for the whole week, which was puzzling because the VTEC website was showing “there are no planned engineering works affecting our services today”. So although the train was over an hour late, for compensation purposes the delay would only show as 45 minutes against the mysteriously moved scheduled time. It was all academic anyway as my daughter was travelling on a free ticket obtained with the last of her East Coast profiles points, so not entitled to any compensation anyway despite her disastrous journey experience.
