Sodding railways. Minor rant
Discussion
HMG keeps imploring us to get out of our cars and onto pubic (sic) transport. So we give it a go, more expensive than using the car, but hey, why not?
Departure Station, positive note they are decorating, slight negative note, bit scared to touch anything due to wet paint everywhere.
Outward train, on time, great, clean, warm, lots of seats, double great.
After first stop, lights go out just a few emergency lights lit, train very slow out of station and up a hill. Now gets cold as heating has gone off.Guard Train manager eventually announces that due to an engine failure it may get dark in the tunnels. Train finally gets there, feet like blocks of ice as it's so bloody cold.
Return journey:
Station filthy, no / very little seating, not that want to touch anything for different reasons to the wet paint issue.
Train board shows on time, good. Incoming train that I think will form our train shows on time, also good.
30 minutes to wait, no adverse announcements/indications.
6 (six) minutes before dep time the announcer goes, the hh.mm from XYZ has been cancelled, bla bla bla. Silence, our train dep still shows on time. hmmm
Consider this is the first announcement and as said earlier we have been waiting there about 30 minutes. Incoming train never started the journey as it turns out.
Two more minutes announcement the hh:mm to XYZ has been cancelled. So we are now faced with a long wait or a rapid hare across the city to another station to catch a slow train via another route. We were the only ones to do this, all the other passengers were utterly bewildered and resigning themselves to a long wait in the Tastee Bite or whatever the purveyor of tea and sausage rolls call themselves.
Listen you lot at The Powers That Be, you'll never get me on another train or ground public transport unless there is absolutely no other option, ever again. Stop trying to screw up the roads and tax us off the roads. Sort your sodding collective acts out you fricking spacktards!
The only positive note to the entire experience was that we were given a passenger feedback questionnaire. My question is whether will they bin the form due to the use of the imperative "Poke it!"
Departure Station, positive note they are decorating, slight negative note, bit scared to touch anything due to wet paint everywhere.
Outward train, on time, great, clean, warm, lots of seats, double great.
After first stop, lights go out just a few emergency lights lit, train very slow out of station and up a hill. Now gets cold as heating has gone off.
Return journey:
Station filthy, no / very little seating, not that want to touch anything for different reasons to the wet paint issue.
Train board shows on time, good. Incoming train that I think will form our train shows on time, also good.
30 minutes to wait, no adverse announcements/indications.
6 (six) minutes before dep time the announcer goes, the hh.mm from XYZ has been cancelled, bla bla bla. Silence, our train dep still shows on time. hmmm
Consider this is the first announcement and as said earlier we have been waiting there about 30 minutes. Incoming train never started the journey as it turns out.
Two more minutes announcement the hh:mm to XYZ has been cancelled. So we are now faced with a long wait or a rapid hare across the city to another station to catch a slow train via another route. We were the only ones to do this, all the other passengers were utterly bewildered and resigning themselves to a long wait in the Tastee Bite or whatever the purveyor of tea and sausage rolls call themselves.
Listen you lot at The Powers That Be, you'll never get me on another train or ground public transport unless there is absolutely no other option, ever again. Stop trying to screw up the roads and tax us off the roads. Sort your sodding collective acts out you fricking spacktards!
The only positive note to the entire experience was that we were given a passenger feedback questionnaire. My question is whether will they bin the form due to the use of the imperative "Poke it!"
Don't worry you get used to it...thats normal.
When i used to commute people were used to me turning up upto an hour early (to make sure i got in at all) or a bit late. One day i was a few hours late, no idea why. However everyone in my office (all of whom drove in) knew that there had been subsidence on the line and trains were delayed because of it. Everyone on the trains just knew they were late.
When i used to commute people were used to me turning up upto an hour early (to make sure i got in at all) or a bit late. One day i was a few hours late, no idea why. However everyone in my office (all of whom drove in) knew that there had been subsidence on the line and trains were delayed because of it. Everyone on the trains just knew they were late.
The OP might be able to claim compensation for their journey, if it really was as late as they said. Mind you we have no idea what line they were on. If it was a route run by First Capital Connect then they have real problems at the moment. The drivers are working to rule so they have no staff to drive the trains.
On my local commute on Southern we are very rarely delayed, and usually have good information when we are. Yesterday the Guard even made an announcement as we pulled in to East Croydon to advise us which platfors for connection, the fact that as one connection was late running we could catch it etc. Fantastic service!
On my local commute on Southern we are very rarely delayed, and usually have good information when we are. Yesterday the Guard even made an announcement as we pulled in to East Croydon to advise us which platfors for connection, the fact that as one connection was late running we could catch it etc. Fantastic service!
Grudgingly support SWT. I get the train to work and this year it's been late less than 5 times - and in every instance it's not made any difference to my onward journey (One bus every 30min, departs 10min after my train arrives). Stations aren't too bad either, though I tend to not make a habit of hanging around in them.
£346 return for me and mum in law, to London.
OR
£128 for me, mum in law, AND my wife AND our daughter, IF I buy a family railcard.
Of course, nobody in the station ticket office was telling me about this when I was trying to get to London. My dad suggested asking about it after I'd decided to drive there and save several hundred quid.....
Where is the logic in their system?
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