{"id":143851,"date":"2018-06-20T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/northern-rail-ministers-warned-of-timetable-chaos\/"},"modified":"2018-06-20T14:00:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T14:00:59","slug":"northern-rail-ministers-warned-of-timetable-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/northern-rail-ministers-warned-of-timetable-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern rail: &#8216;Ministers warned of timetable chaos&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06bmvfz.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionLisa Nandy says ministers were warned of &quot;impending chaos&quot; <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">The government knew Northern rail passengers would face major disruption two years ago, an MP has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Wigan MP Lisa Nandy said she had been handed Department for Transport emails in which officials discuss &quot;propagating myths&quot; to divert attention from route closures.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during Prime Minister&#039;s Questions, she said the emails were a &quot;disgrace&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Theresa May said she would not comment on &quot;leaked&quot; documents<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rail bosses &#039;were aware&#039; of likely chaos<\/li>\n<li>Rail industry &#039;has failed passengers&#039;<\/li>\n<li>&#039;Meltdown Monday&#039; after rail changes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Responding to Ms Nandy&#039;s allegations, the Prime Minister said a panel was set up to advise the Department for Transport about the plans.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Image caption                                      Theresa May declined to comment on what she described as &quot;leaked&quot; documents                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ms Nandy said in the emails &quot;officials describe key Northern routes as valueless, discuss classic handling strategies for members of parliament, discuss whether to throw a sop to Northern passenger groups and debate whether to propagate myths in order to divert public attention from agreed planned route closures.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>She asked why the government had &quot;withheld this key information&quot; from the house and the public.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Nandy also tweeted some examples of the correspondence involving the line between Wigan and Southport.<\/p>\n<p>                           Skip Twitter post  by @lisanandy                              <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>DfT officials describe key routes as &#039;not really valued&#039; and discuss giving a &quot;sop&quot; to campaigners. pic.twitter.com\/WVueg4EtIX<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lisa Nandy (@lisanandy) June 20, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>              Report                          <\/p>\n<p>End of Twitter post  by @lisanandy<\/p>\n<p>A new timetable was introduced on 20 May and Northern passengers have faced widespread disruption and cancellations.<\/p>\n<p>The DfT has been asked to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media playback is unsupported on your deviceMedia captionLisa Nandy says ministers were warned of &quot;impending chaos&quot; The government knew Northern rail passengers would face major disruption two years ago, an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}