Originally posted by oddoneout
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Playing with trains/ HS2 & 3
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Probably fair to say that the DFT would do poorly in a contest to differentiate arses and elbows.
DfT tells operators wifi is low priority for travellers and they need to justify business case for it
“ what is more important to you, personal safety or wifi ?”
“ Yeah, but no but….”
Really extraordinary.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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There's a programme on Radio 4 at 8pm (2000 BST) this evening called 'what are the railways for?' . Apparently Britain's railways are about to be reorganised (this was news to me); I'm told it happens every thirty years or so, traditionally the interval between generations, maybe reflecting the notion that everyone thinks they now better than their parents did.
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Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostThere's a programme on Channel 4 tonight - Ben Elton on how/why the railways don't work!
Perhaps worth picking up on catch up later.
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/...ilway-disaster
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Originally posted by teamsaint View PostThere is no catering on South Western Railway.
None at all.
Some journeys take several hours.
Edit. The strikes may never end either.
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Originally posted by teamsaint View PostThere is no catering on South Western Railway.
Originally posted by teamsaint View PostSome journeys take several hours.
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As a long-term railway enthusiast it gives me no pleasure to read these posts, but it's comforting, perhaps, to know that I'm not alone in lamenting the decline in rail services in recent years.
Last week we had a pleasant holiday marred only by our encounters with rail travel. I chose to go by rail to allow us both to relax and enjoy the view and the comfort. The first day our train, for which I had advance-purchased first class tickets and seat reservations, was cancelled , and we had to travel on two alternative overcrowded trains with no catering or luggage spaces. Mid week we took a trip up into the hills. Our train coming back was cancelled and we had to wait three hours for a coach, after repeated telephoning to find out if it really was going to come. Coming home on the last day we were misinformed that our train was cancelled until I discovered three stops later that it was running. We boarded it to find that there was no at-seat service in first class and nearly all the food had been snaffled by a ravenous horde who had waited an hour for it as the previous train had been cancelled.
It's no wonder that non-enthusiasts elect to go by car, contributing to the unwelcome spectacle of queues of vehicles , all with engines running, one person in each, repeated all over the civilised world.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostI don't know what their excuse is but it has to be said if trains are routinely overcrowded then operating the mobile catering becomes impossible. Need the trolleys to operate up and down the platforms at stations perhaps(posting food through the windows as in India?), but I suppose the franchises wouldn't like it,, even though they wouldn't get customers from a "moving " train anyway as there isn't a long enough stop at many stations to get off, find the outlet, queue and then get back on the train.
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostGiven the standard of rail catering, some might see that as a blessing!
That would be expected of Waterloo to Weymouth or Waterloo to Exeter, hein?I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by teamsaint View PostThere is no catering on South Western Railway.
None at all.
Some journeys take several hours.
Edit. The strikes may never end either.
However, some of the issues in the northern parts of the UK are absolutely pathetic compared with what happens in the SE.
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