Commuters stranded at Rochdale station
Date published: 08 January 2013
Commuters were stranded at Rochdale station because no one turned up to open it.
It should have opened at 5:50am but because of staff illness the rail firm said it did not open until 7:10am.
Four trains due to stop at Rochdale, one each to York and Manchester and two trains to Selby, were unable to pick up passengers.
The 06.05 to York, 06.24 to Manchester and the 06.37 and 06.56 to Selby were all affected.
A spokesman for Northern Rail, said: "We would like to apologise to anyone who was inconvenienced by this."
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