Martin Lewis gets apology from rail company after slamming 'disgraceful' service
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA rail company has apologised to Martin Lewis after the money saving expert slammed the 'degrading' conditions of a East Midlands Railway service that was packed with '500 people'.
Matin said the conditions on the London to Sheffield train on Monday afternoon were 'like something from the 19th century'. He said every seat and standing space on the service was taken and there was just one working toilet for the whole train, WalesOnline reports.
Writing on X, formerly known as Twitter, he said: "Dear@EastMidRailway this train (Ldn - Sheffield) is disgraceful. Every seat taken, every standing space taken, scores sitting in mid-train corridors so I guess 500 people on it and ONLY ONE WORKING TOILET at one end, so people must crawl over each 100s to reach it. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new feature s. "It's degrading, like something from the 19th century.
PS and as I walked to the loo, apologising profusely, a number of people asked me to say something publicly about it. One of the reasons for this tweet." The social media post generated a huge response on social media with many of his followers sharing their bad experiences of using the UK rail network.
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