To cope with the thousands of people expected to attend this week's Lytham Festival at Lytham St. Annes in Lancashire, train operator Northern will implement additional ticket checks and crowd control measures at Lytham station.
Following soon after the Glastonbury Festival where festival-goers were encouraged to travel by train, Lytham Festival will be held on Lytham Green from Wednesday 3rd to Sunday, 7th July featuring a stellar line-up including with Hozier, Shania Twain, The Courteeners, Madness and James.
Lytham station is on the South Fylde line between Blackpool South and Preston. People travelling by train to Lytham for the Lytham Festival have been advised to ensure they purchase a ticket before boarding the train for their journey.
Additional ticket checks will be carried out on trains and at stations along the line by conductors and station staff with the support of revenue officers.
To ensure the safety of passengers, special crowd control measures will be put in place at Lytham station because of the large number of festival goers expected to arrive and depart by train.
Lytham station is just a five minute walk from the festival site.
When passengers arrive at Lytham they will be provided with special credit card-sized timetables advising them of the last two services from Lytham to Blackpool South and Preston.
To make it easier for passengers to purchase tickets, Northern has a larger digital ticket infrastructure network than any other train operator.
Purchasing tickets via their app or website is a very simple process, but there are also more than 600 ticket machines across its network and at its ticket offices.
Lytham station is just a five-minute walk from the festival site and the train is a great way to get to the event.
However, we know from experience that all major events encourage some people to think they'll get away with not buying a ticket for their journey.
By reminding people in advance that ticket checks will be taking place, we hope less people will attempt to travel without a ticket.
Craig Harrop, regional director for Northern,
That’s ok do long as the trains run ,the Northern drivers have an overtime ban going on till 27th July, trains are being cancelled left right and centre 8 trains cancelled on Sunday onthe southport line.