Rail passengers faced delays once again on Tuesday morning after a new timetable was introduced on many local services.

Services between Huddersfield and Manchester from 7.20am were running between eight and 10 minutes late during the morning commute, while one service the 8.22am between Huddersfield, Marsden and Manchester, was cancelled.

It comes after Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman dubbed the service offered to customers as “shocking”. The May 2018 timetable change involved changing the times of about 90% of Northern's 2,600 daily services, in many cases to make room for changes to longer-distance train services, run by TransPennine Express.

Colne Valley MP Thelma Walker said she'd be speaking to passengers this week to understand their experiences.

The Slaithwaite & Marsden Action on Rail Transport group, which has been campaigning to protect services from Colne Valley stations, said: “It’s not been an auspicious start.

“Sunday 20th saw multiple cancellations of trains serving Marsden and Slaithwaite, including a three hour gap in the service at Marsden.

“One of the supposed advantages of TPE taking over the services was that adapting to disruption was supposed to become a whole lot easier.

“SMART was led to believe that in the event of a cancellation it’s more likely that an express will make additional stops, rather than passengers being abandoned or left to try to work out where when and if a replacement bus might appear. You can guess what happened – yes, it was a replacement bus taking four times as long as the train.”

Reports from passengers highlighted issues they faced:

- TPEs delayed trains missed out Mossley and Slaithwaite in order to make up time.

- Some of the Stalybridge to Victoria connecting services were cancelled, and some connections missed at Stalybridge because of delays.

- Two Colne Valley services made it as far as Stalybridge before being terminated.

On Twitter rail users said: