North Wales ...'Vomit train' ran with taped off seats covered in sick!

This is just awful, talk about health and safety ignorance! The carriage should have been cleaned or closed.

A man travelling on a train from Crewe to Holyhead says that a section of the carriage was taped off after a passenger had vomited over the seats and floor earlier in the day. The carriage "stank" says the passenger, who asked not to be named.

He claims that "no attempt had been made to clean it" before he and the other passengers boarded. The man says he was "alarmed" when he learnt that the sullied seats had been taped off since earlier in the afternoon and that it had run other services in that state with passengers "inhaling the fumes of the vomit" all the while. He said what he encountered was an "unacceptable hazard".

The scenes took place on Friday evening on the 6:24pm service from Crewe, which changed at Chester on its way to Holyhead. He says the experience was made all the worse due to there being only two carriages for the service which meant that the odour was inescapable for many passengers.

The train was packed when it arrived at Crewe, he says, with all the seats, barring the ones that had been taped off, taken and no room to stand. He says that disembarking customers made comments that the train "shouldn't have been used" due to the pungent smell of the vomit.

Inside the carriage after passengers disembarked at Crewe (Image: UGC)

"When I managed to board the train, I understood why," said the passenger.

"Someone had vomited all over four seats and over the floor. No attempt had been made to clean it, instead, the four seats were taped out of use with the vomit still on them and on the floor for us all to tread in - even the conductor stepped over it to check tickets!

The passenger says he was bemused to see a poster promoting the cleanliness of TfW services after seeing the vomit (Image: UGC)

"I was alarmed to hear that the 'sick incident' had happened on service earlier in the afternoon. To my knowledge around six outbound/return trips, all very busy services, were made in the carriage as it was coated in vomit with passengers inhaling the fumes and standing in the wet puddles of watery vomit on the floor - an unacceptable health hazard, why is this acceptable?"

Transport for Wales has been approached for comment.

From...https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/vomit-train-ran-half-dozen-25336357