A man was forced to fork out £225 for a taxi after being left 'stranded' on a nightmare train journey from Manchester to London. Yousef Abda says he was one of dozens of passengers hit by delays and cancellations while attempting to travel to the capital on Friday, June 17.
The 33-year-old had purchased a return ticket from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston so he could visit his girlfriend for the weekend. But when he arrived at the station, he found that his train - the 7.55pm Avanti West Coast service to Euston - had been delayed.
Mr Abda and 'hundreds' of other passengers were instead told to board a train to Birmingham, where they could change for Euston. They arrived in Birmingham at 10pm, only for the next two trains to London to be cancelled.
