Manchester Piccadilly station

I walked around all station including The Food Terrace and I could not find a SINGLE bin for rubbish. Finally asked polite guy in M&S for letting me us their bin over the counter when I was paying for a bottle of water. Plenty of rubbish left everywhere. Definitely not agree that the place is well organised. Also toilet was too smelly

If you want to feel like cattle being herded then come to Piccadilly. Train running late, well wait another ten minutes while we check your tickets before you can leave. Like being cold and wet in winter? Catch a train from platform 13.

Visited 25/01/2023 early morning around 5am luckily the Greggs on the station approach outside was open as not much was open inside apart from WH Smith’s. Not a frequent train traveller so wasn’t aware train platforms are not shown until around 15 minutes before departure. Station was clean and well lit, no need for any interaction with staff. Once on the train found seat assigned and then connected to the temperamental / patchy on board WiFi which seems to only really work when train is either travelling slowly or at a station. Train was generally clean, so overall a good experience ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The barrier system is horrible and manned by jobsworths and vest wearers who seem to think that stitching you up for fare evasion is top of their list even though you tell them that no guard on the train was encountered. A regular occurance these days. Steadily but surely the whole scene is becoming a prison manned by robots holding phones with no compassion or common sense but enjoying the power that wearing a sad vest brings to these drones..

so i arrived back after 2 trains got cancelled so missed my last tram , train supervisor hearing I'm autistic called control and got permission to pay for my taxi , yhats service , great train station with great crew