Commuter slams Liverpoool to Manchester morning service after woman 'collapses' on packed train

A commuter has slammed train services between Manchester and Liverpool after a woman ‘collapsed’ on a packed train this morning (October 17). Only one commuter service runs between Manchester and Liverpool every hour, stopping at multiple smaller stops such as Rainhill and Newton-le-Willows, even at peak times, with one commuter this morning blasting it as a ‘health and safety’ hazard.

Jess Taylor has been commuting from Rainhill to Media City for the last five years, but says it has been getting “worse and worse” with services regularly packed. She was waiting for the 7.48 train from Rainhil to Manchester Piccadilly this morning when the service arrived with people only just about “squeezed on”.

Herself, along with four or five others, were unable to even get on the train, however, this soon became unimportant as emergency services were called to a woman who had ‘collapsed’. “It’s usually an horrendous service anyway,” she told the Manchester Evening News.

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“It’s the only service between Liverpool and Manchester that stops at each place and it’s supposed to be every hour but it usually gets ridiculously busy by Newton-le-Willows. It turned up delayed today and people were literally squeezed on, four or five of us waiting for the train physically couldn’t get on.

“It was about to pull away again but it suddenly stopped and people had to get off because a woman had collapsed. I’ve seen people faint before in the summer when it’s hot because it’s busy, but never as bad as this.

“We could then hear the driver on the phone saying she wasn’t going to carry on with all these people on board because it was a health and safety hazard.

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