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Nice little local operator
Review of Northern Spirit by GraWar

Advantages: good punctuality, cheap fares
Disadvantages: old trains

Northern Spirit hold the train franchise, believe it or not from the name, up north. They offer services as far south as Sheffield and travel to places like Wakefield, Leeds, Barnsley, Pontefract etc... I often use a Northern Spirit service or range of services approximately 4 times a month. It is normally on the 20 minute journey between Wakefield and Pontefract, however I have travelled between Sheffield and Pontefract on a Northern Spirit service, ... Read review

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02.05.2001
Newcastle-Sunderland by Northern Spirit
Review of Northern Spirit by lucypenman

Advantages: Frequent service, much better than the bus
Disadvantages: Trains could be dirty but staff do clean often

...need putting right. The standard of Northern Spirit trains is not very high but the service does have good points which I think need pointing out. Over the two years I used the service on a daily basis I noticed the staff were very good with disabled travellers and most of them stop to ask the many mothers who use the service need a hand with pushchairs, etc. I mention it because this is a point that has been picked up in the criticisms of the ... Read review

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30.01.2001
What a load of rubbish
Review of Northern Spirit by andyev

Advantages: I can get my fare back on expenses
Disadvantages: smelly train, broken down train, late train

...service is one run by Northern Spirit - I implore you to go a bit earlier and find an alternative bus service. Today I had the audacity to expect the train to run to time out of Leeds. It did not, in fact it was 40 minutes late after the first train that turned up supposedly "broke down" at the station. However, this same train seemed to have no trouble pulling into the station laden with passengers and similarly had little trouble in pulling out ... Read review

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22.02.2001
not the best way to travel
Review of Northern Spirit by georgie

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Disadvantages: expensive, uncomfortable, moves about., not clean

...fantastic trains. So c'mon Northern Spirit, let the passengers travel in comfort, or they may just take to the buses. ... Read review

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14.08.2000
Spirit of the North
Review of Northern Spirit by CyrixDes

Advantages: pretty punctual, serve a good area
Disadvantages: trains are old

...I travel on loads of Northern Spirit trains because im in Yorkshire a lot. I find myself using Northern Spirit between Sheffield sometimes and onto Wakefield and Pontefract. For starters what can I say about punctuality? Well on the whole apart from the once when it was 15 mins late, I find them to always leave the station within 3 or 4 minutes of the time they should do although most of the time they are pretty punctual. Right now for the ... Read review

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06.05.2001
Darlington - London, faultless!
Review of Northern Spirit by Scribbler

Advantages: Fast, clean, on-board facilities
Disadvantages: Expensive snack trolley, Darlington Station in general

I'm not a big traveller, so when I had the chance to go to London for the weekend, I jumped at the chance. The ticket booking was done by a friend of mine, and the time they took to arrive was OK. After ordering, they were here within two days. Although £41 for a return ticket is expensive, it is well worth it. Although I live in Hartlepool, getting to Darlington isn't a problem, as there are bus and train links. Darlington station was probably ... Read review

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18.09.2000
Esk valley line needs more trains !
Review of Northern Spirit by Gardenex

Advantages: Scenic route
Disadvantages: very infrequent service

...Esk valley railway run by Northern Spirit railways needs more trains !. At present there are only four weekday trains each way along the route and Northern Spirit should be increasing this by now . It has been like this for ten years and they don't seem to be bothered about putting on an early morning train from Whitby to Middlesborough to get people to work . The earliest you can get into Middlesborough from the East coast resort of Whitby at ... Read review

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06.10.2000
Old Trains
Review of Northern Spirit by Dalesman

Advantages: frequent rail services
Disadvantages: expensive fares and old trains

Northern Spirit are running trains on the Skipton-Leeds-Bradford-Ilkley lines that are the same trains I used to run around on as a child in Liverpool..they are some 30 or 40 years old and frequently break down.. People who do not live in the Metro area pay top fares for shoddy unreliable transport.. Trains to Carlisle on the famous Leeds-Settle-Carlisle railway are inadequate, rarley are there refreshments on board and usually at peak times ... Read review

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22.08.2000
(15.07.2001)
Northern Spirit driving customers away
Review of Northern Spirit by galls

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: too expensive

...January seventeenth 20001 rail operator Northern Spirit are to increase their fares again . Meanwhile the service if it runs at all continues to get worse . How dare they increase their fares after the shambles of the past few months . I think they should be reducing their ticket prices as a gesture of goodwill not putting them up . I heard on the news that another train operator Great North Eastern Railways are freezing their prices for the coming ... Read review

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02.01.2001
(29.01.2001)
Need to catch a train
Review of Northern Spirit by DeanLambert

Advantages: The new trains are a lot better than the old "slam door" type trains they had.
Disadvantages: The trains hardly ever run on time

Northern Spirit? More like Northern Ghost! I had the unfortunate pleasure of this company (now renamed Arriva trains Northern) since they started to run trains. If you need to catch one of these I would start walking because the chances are you will get there before the train does. They are hardly on time, no announcements on why they are late no nothing. The spent millions of pounds on some trains to run on the Airedale and Wharfdale lines ... Read review

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07.06.2001

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