Liberal Democrat peer Shaffaq Mohammed, who lives in Sheffield, said he had recently been impacted by rail disruption while travelling to the House of Lords.<\/p>\n
“We have either had cancellations or delays for weeks now,” Lord Mohammed said.<\/p>\n
“Recently my train set off from Sheffield on time, but the journey was delayed and they said due to ongoing faults it was terminating at Leicester.<\/p>\n
“The train was already quite full because EMR have cut a number of services. <\/p>\n
“We waited half an hour and then had to join another train which was already full.” <\/p>\n
He continued: “On another occasion, my colleague Paul Scriven was on a train an hour before me. His train then developed a fault and had to pull over. <\/p>\n
“He waited on a platform for 25 minutes to join my train, but it was already jam-packed so we both stood up the whole way.”<\/p>\n
Lord Mohammed says he had raised the issue with rail minister Lord Peter Hendy. <\/p>\n
The Department for Transport said it had asked EMR “to do everything possible” to minimise disruption and make services more reliable.<\/p>\n
The delays are due to problems transitioning to a new fleet of trains. <\/p>\n
Manufacturer Hitachi Rail said the new fleet had been in passenger service with EMR since December 2025 and more than a third of the fleet had now been delivered.<\/p>\n
It said it was working closely with industry partners, implementing improvements and was focused on delivering the remainder of the fleet and supporting EMR as more new trains enter passenger service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liberal Democrat peer Shaffaq Mohammed, who lives in Sheffield, said he had recently been impacted by rail disruption…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-707014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}