Since First TransPennine Express disposed of Class 158 when they replaced them all with the current Class 185 fleet I began to forget how comfy these trains actually are, as yesterday, owing to engineering works between Huddersfield and Stalybridge I had to get trains in and out of Manchester Victoria station rather than Manchester Piccadilly, as ALL TransPennine Express services to Manchester were being diverted there as I was headed to Manchester again (I spend a lot of time down there now, lol), now on the way there it was sort of business as usual with me getting a TransPennine Express train at York, the return leg however saw me on a different train, a class 158 operated by Northern, which was showing it’s age, namely the toilet door not working properly, the engines were quite loud in the seating area too despite it normally not being loud in there but this was due to the opening windows all being open, but the seats were a hell of a lot more comfier than the TransPennine 185s which makes me wonder “why did they get rid of such good trains and replace them with crap?” though I guess I’ll never know the answer to that
Well my next trip to Manchester will likely be into Piccadilly station so it’ll be business with TransPennine Express as usual
More soon
Happy Journeys :)
