It’s almost like privatisation was a mistake somehow.
have you tried getting an earlier train or do you just about arrive at work on time, or slightly late?
Trains are great.
Capitalism, however.
Bought off peak tickets to get home from London, they then announce all sorts of rail works, cancel of peak trains. In the end I had to just get on a direct peak train, where all the seats were booked up until the first stop?
They’re a disgrace
Yeah no thanks I’d rather my car than being stuck in a metal tube packed as tight as sardines. In my car I just have to deal with myself and not a mentally unhinged individual, a dude with serious BO, loud school kids or a potential jihadi!
I think we should throw more money at cars, that seems like a great long-term solution to multiple major problems /s
I had to stand for 6 hours getting the train from Birmingham to Glasgow a few months ago after 3 trains were cancelled. Our railways are a fucking shit show and an expensive one at that.
It’s so depressing.
I’m really glad I have a car.
£25, those are rooky numbers.
For a country that invented the trains, you would think we would have mastered them by now….
£25 for a 2 hour journey? Where did he find that?!
*Another* privatisation failure.
So ride a bike,or move to somewhere that you can afford to drive to work
About 2 years ago I went on a stag do to Cornwall. We decided to get the train from Par where we were staying to Newquay. Not a long journey by any means. It was a Saturday mid February around 5pm.
Journey was maybe 30 mins to an hour. I can’t quite remember. But it no joke felt like an eternity. This train was full to the brim with drunk kids around 12-16 years old. It was insanity. There were kids opening the toilet door every 2 mins when someone was in there pissing. Kids hanging off the railings above the seats. People going back and forth from carriage to carriage. I think they all knew each other. Glass bottles were being smashed. The girls were all screaming. Just a miserable journey.
At one point the conductor came through took one look at us and with a big shit eating grin went “having fun???????” Lmao.
Yeah we got a taxi back lmao.
Worst part of it all? Most are run by foreign companies, some of which are actually state backed. Some of our train services have been nationalised by other countries, and some of these countries use the profits of inflated prices British taxpayers pay to subsidise their own services.
Now, if I was as patriotic as some people claim to be, I’d be pretty upset about this, rather than voting for the party least likely to nationalise our own services for the good of the British public.
And yet it’s still one of the better transport systems in the world.
But Brits do like a moan.
Nothing beats an overcrowded, overpriced, falling apart Northern Rail train! You can save up to -£50!
£25 for a 2-hour journey? It costs me nearly £10 to do a 12-minute train journey with one stop.
i bet there’s a car on that train that’s basically empty because it’s “first class” and the only difference is that it has some outlets or something.
I’ve been to quite a few countries.
I have never been to a country where the trains are as expensive as they are in the UK. And I have never been to a country where the service runs as abysmally as ours either.
I’m sure there are countries with even worse train services than ours, but it’s galls ever time I return to the UK to re-realise just how shit our train industry is.
Looks like a CrossCountry train, which is a whole circle of hell in itself.
I used to regularly get the CrossCountry service between Leeds and Sheffield. It was always short-formed, always packed, always late, and even if you paid £45 for a first class upgrade you still could not get a seat. In the end, I started getting the slower, but less crowded Northern service just so I could sit down.
A joke of an operator.
Perhaps we need projects that boost capacity on the railways.
> Last year, following assessment from the Department for Transport, the National Audit Office reported that the West Coast Main Line will be at capacity by the mid-2030s. However, the WCML has arguably already hit its limits, due to its inability to accommodate growth now, not forgetting the government’s commitment to grow rail freight by at least 75% by 2050. Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham reiterates this concern, stating that not doing anything to address capacity on the WCML would be a ‘brake on growth’. HS2 was always intended to release this pressure and enable economic expansion. These are benefits that build over time, not overnight.
> The encouraging news is that all the infrastructure required to deliver this core section has been granted parliamentary powers, and nearly all is funded, except for two crucial elements. Chief among them is the connection from the West Midlands to Crewe, which must be urgently greenlit before the powers to build it run out. Without it, HS2 cannot fulfil its purpose of alleviating pressure on the West Coast Main Line at its most constrained point…
Last year we were flying out from Luton for a holiday. I haven’t used public transport in years, but made a choice to book the train from us to the airport as the cost was going to be roughly the same as fuel plus parking at the airport.
Across the two legs there were three delays and one cancelled train. Stood the whole way from Bristol to London as there weren’t enough carriages put on, despite paying for booked seats. Stood the whole way from London to Bristol on the way back for the same reason – none of which was good with suitcases and everything else.
Swore I’d never do it again, so this year I drove in comfort both ways with no stress and not stuck like a sardine.
I once spent an hour long journey stood up with a baby getting evil eyes because she was crying. She was crying because she wanted to be fed, but I hadn’t yet learned the skill of holding on to a bar, wapping a breast a out and feeding all at the same time, whilst stood in a moving train.
£25? was this post unearthed from a time capsule?
Gets on one crowded train, result=all trains are overcrowded. Mind boggling.
A lovely bit of Sarcasm there. Beautiful British Sarcasm 👌🤣
If you hate this but still vouch for mass illegal immigration, you’re not engaging the brain one bit
£25 wtf it’s never that low for 2hr
Look at this fucker boasting about a train that actually turned up.
I’m still stood on a platform wondering if I need to find a hotel for the night.
Still, since delay repay kicked in I’ve travelled the UK for free.
The alternative is ‘all reserved seating’ but then OP wouldn’t be on that train.
How did he manage to get a train ticket for £25?
…do you want first class trains? It’ll cost you most than £25 to ride but hey, you won’t have to share space with the poors.
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It’s almost like privatisation was a mistake somehow.
have you tried getting an earlier train or do you just about arrive at work on time, or slightly late?
Trains are great.
Capitalism, however.
Bought off peak tickets to get home from London, they then announce all sorts of rail works, cancel of peak trains. In the end I had to just get on a direct peak train, where all the seats were booked up until the first stop?
They’re a disgrace
Yeah no thanks I’d rather my car than being stuck in a metal tube packed as tight as sardines. In my car I just have to deal with myself and not a mentally unhinged individual, a dude with serious BO, loud school kids or a potential jihadi!
I think we should throw more money at cars, that seems like a great long-term solution to multiple major problems /s
I had to stand for 6 hours getting the train from Birmingham to Glasgow a few months ago after 3 trains were cancelled. Our railways are a fucking shit show and an expensive one at that.
It’s so depressing.
I’m really glad I have a car.
£25, those are rooky numbers.
For a country that invented the trains, you would think we would have mastered them by now….
£25 for a 2 hour journey? Where did he find that?!
*Another* privatisation failure.
So ride a bike,or move to somewhere that you can afford to drive to work
About 2 years ago I went on a stag do to Cornwall. We decided to get the train from Par where we were staying to Newquay. Not a long journey by any means. It was a Saturday mid February around 5pm.
Journey was maybe 30 mins to an hour. I can’t quite remember. But it no joke felt like an eternity. This train was full to the brim with drunk kids around 12-16 years old. It was insanity. There were kids opening the toilet door every 2 mins when someone was in there pissing. Kids hanging off the railings above the seats. People going back and forth from carriage to carriage. I think they all knew each other. Glass bottles were being smashed. The girls were all screaming. Just a miserable journey.
At one point the conductor came through took one look at us and with a big shit eating grin went “having fun???????” Lmao.
Yeah we got a taxi back lmao.
Worst part of it all? Most are run by foreign companies, some of which are actually state backed. Some of our train services have been nationalised by other countries, and some of these countries use the profits of inflated prices British taxpayers pay to subsidise their own services.
Now, if I was as patriotic as some people claim to be, I’d be pretty upset about this, rather than voting for the party least likely to nationalise our own services for the good of the British public.
And yet it’s still one of the better transport systems in the world.
But Brits do like a moan.
Nothing beats an overcrowded, overpriced, falling apart Northern Rail train! You can save up to -£50!
£25 for a 2-hour journey? It costs me nearly £10 to do a 12-minute train journey with one stop.
i bet there’s a car on that train that’s basically empty because it’s “first class” and the only difference is that it has some outlets or something.
I’ve been to quite a few countries.
I have never been to a country where the trains are as expensive as they are in the UK. And I have never been to a country where the service runs as abysmally as ours either.
I’m sure there are countries with even worse train services than ours, but it’s galls ever time I return to the UK to re-realise just how shit our train industry is.
Looks like a CrossCountry train, which is a whole circle of hell in itself.
I used to regularly get the CrossCountry service between Leeds and Sheffield. It was always short-formed, always packed, always late, and even if you paid £45 for a first class upgrade you still could not get a seat. In the end, I started getting the slower, but less crowded Northern service just so I could sit down.
A joke of an operator.
Perhaps we need projects that boost capacity on the railways.
https://www.railwaygazette.com/uk/viewpoint-the-future-of-hs2-could-lie-in-its-original-vision/68778.article
> Last year, following assessment from the Department for Transport, the National Audit Office reported that the West Coast Main Line will be at capacity by the mid-2030s. However, the WCML has arguably already hit its limits, due to its inability to accommodate growth now, not forgetting the government’s commitment to grow rail freight by at least 75% by 2050. Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham reiterates this concern, stating that not doing anything to address capacity on the WCML would be a ‘brake on growth’. HS2 was always intended to release this pressure and enable economic expansion. These are benefits that build over time, not overnight.
> The encouraging news is that all the infrastructure required to deliver this core section has been granted parliamentary powers, and nearly all is funded, except for two crucial elements. Chief among them is the connection from the West Midlands to Crewe, which must be urgently greenlit before the powers to build it run out. Without it, HS2 cannot fulfil its purpose of alleviating pressure on the West Coast Main Line at its most constrained point…
Last year we were flying out from Luton for a holiday. I haven’t used public transport in years, but made a choice to book the train from us to the airport as the cost was going to be roughly the same as fuel plus parking at the airport.
Across the two legs there were three delays and one cancelled train. Stood the whole way from Bristol to London as there weren’t enough carriages put on, despite paying for booked seats. Stood the whole way from London to Bristol on the way back for the same reason – none of which was good with suitcases and everything else.
Swore I’d never do it again, so this year I drove in comfort both ways with no stress and not stuck like a sardine.
I once spent an hour long journey stood up with a baby getting evil eyes because she was crying. She was crying because she wanted to be fed, but I hadn’t yet learned the skill of holding on to a bar, wapping a breast a out and feeding all at the same time, whilst stood in a moving train.
£25? was this post unearthed from a time capsule?
Gets on one crowded train, result=all trains are overcrowded. Mind boggling.
A lovely bit of Sarcasm there. Beautiful British Sarcasm 👌🤣
If you hate this but still vouch for mass illegal immigration, you’re not engaging the brain one bit
£25 wtf it’s never that low for 2hr
Look at this fucker boasting about a train that actually turned up.
I’m still stood on a platform wondering if I need to find a hotel for the night.
Still, since delay repay kicked in I’ve travelled the UK for free.
The alternative is ‘all reserved seating’ but then OP wouldn’t be on that train.
How did he manage to get a train ticket for £25?
…do you want first class trains? It’ll cost you most than £25 to ride but hey, you won’t have to share space with the poors.
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