'I got kicked off a train with two kids on way back from Harry Styles concert'

As concerts go, the journeys to and from can be quite stressful. With huge crowds and traffic to contend with, a fraction of the time involved is spent at the venue itself.

Throw in a trip to another country and there's an extra level of worry - mainly how to get there and back without chaos ensuing.

I say another country, but it shouldn't be too tricky getting from Manchester to Edinburgh and back in this day and age, or so I thought.

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So when my daughter and her friend wanted to go and watch Harry Styles at Murrayfield Stadium on Friday, I decided the easiest option would be via train.

The journey there from Manchester Piccadilly was uneventful. A slight delay, a platform change, but nothing too troublesome. We were there within plenty of time to see the former One Direction frontman take to the stage in front a sell-out crowd.

Getting back to our B&B wasn't as easy. With no phone signal, traffic at a standstill and lots of frustrated taxi drivers unable to move, we eventually boarded a bus - and then another bus - to get back to our guesthouse around midnight.

After a day spent in the city centre we were more than ready for home when we boarded our train at Waverley station to Manchester Victoria at 7pm on Saturday (27 May).

As we relaxed in our seats for the four-and-a-half-hour journey ahead, with no changes planned, all was well.

But around 90 minutes in, you could hear passengers muttering as we all began to receive alerts on our phones about cancelled trains. There was already one woman in tears at the front of the train as she had just 14p in her bank account and no other way of getting home.

Surely this couldn't happen? Not when we're