each train journey should come with a warning, you may be trampled on
My wife travels daily by train to and from work…. rarely, on extremely rare occasion will she have a day where the trains are on time. Considering the amount of money she pays to use them, they are a bloody disgrace. Diabolical doesn’t cover it! Dirty, filthy, unreliable and expensive and hardly ever operating as they should. Lived in Japan for 8 years…. that is a train service! Considerably cheaper too!
A Crosscountry Voyager by the looks of it. Always too short and toilet smelling.
Ah, I can almost smell this picture. A heady musk of armpits and coffee breath, with a slight salt-and-vinegar-crisp undertone.
If you’re booking far enough in advance that you can get a 2 hour journey for £25 you should be able to reserve a seat, but then of course there’s no guarantee that you can physically shove your way through or that there won’t be someone already sat in it. I’ve even been on trains where they announced they were voiding all the seat reservations because it was too busy, which is certainly an interesting approach.
Must be nice! Here, it’s like a game of “Will it or won’t it?” every day!!
I lived in china and Japan
for a while and I will say both china and japan (hell even Korea and Thailands train network shit on ours. We need to take back the corporations and manage them like national services again thatcher really fucked us over on that
I will never give my car up
Don’t forget the ballache of getting to the departure station and onward from where you finally land.
Must be nice! The UK could really use a few of those speedy, reliable trains. We’re still waiting for our upgrade.
Hey….are you being sarcastic man?
Most public transport is a joke in the uk. Especially the further north you go. In the north east if you dont have a car everything needs to be on your doorstep.
Cross Country are certainly a bad joke. A lot of people will blame DfT rather than Cross Country for that though, rightly or wrongly.
On the whole, I don’t find trains to be *that* bad. We all remember our worst experiences.
25£. Nice bargain, good deal right there
Privatised trains are a joke. It doesn’t have to look like this, there are plenty of countries in Europe where things are done better.
£25 what the fuck!!! Down here in Queensland Australia our bus and train is 0.50c.
Yep. Why would I drive when I can pay more than I would in petrol for less comfort and after all the delays/cancellations, a slower journey.
I honestly don’t understand why anyone who can be fully remote or work from home doesn’t. It’s completely wasteful how much travel happens across the world just to sit in a office
is this an england issue trains in scotland arent that bad
I don’t understand, I was promised that tHe fReE MaRkEt would fix everything.
Are you suggesting that train companies aren’t constantly running multiple unrelated services on the same singular tracks to compete by offering the cheapest and best service?
Are you suggesting that the taxpayers paying entirely for all maintenance, repairs, and all costs while the train operators make all of the profits didn’t work out perfectly for everyone?
I for one have been shook.
My mind has been blown.
My gasts have been flabbered.
Train ticket reimbursements from delays/cancellations etc. are up like 500x since pre covid
That blonde girl’s got massive shoulders
Laughs in Japan Rail
When previous and upcoming governments have asked you if you’d like the money saved through lower taxes or selling off rail, this is what it gets you. Trains need money and your ticket price isn’t going to alleviate this. But it could if things were changed. And at a fraction of car running costs.
This GWR by any chance?
Thatcher’s Legacy. Name one aspect of Privatisation that has gone well? Yet amongst Tories, Maggie is still spoken of as a Messiah…
One word – corruption
Seriously how are they expecting people to use trains when they are extortionate…..coach is still fairly cheap luckily.
It’s the UK, everything’s a joke, we’re basically a third world country now.
Every 5:30 train from London. No one wants to wait 15 minutes for the next train, so they all squirm on like little meaty maggots.
I love nothing more than having a reserved seat on a packed train, sitting in my comfy seat like a right smug prick…absolute bliss.
Trains in the south west Plymouth to penzance always seem to be cancelled or delayed and the price from A-B are crazy, cheaper to get the bus ..
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each train journey should come with a warning, you may be trampled on
My wife travels daily by train to and from work…. rarely, on extremely rare occasion will she have a day where the trains are on time. Considering the amount of money she pays to use them, they are a bloody disgrace. Diabolical doesn’t cover it! Dirty, filthy, unreliable and expensive and hardly ever operating as they should. Lived in Japan for 8 years…. that is a train service! Considerably cheaper too!
A Crosscountry Voyager by the looks of it. Always too short and toilet smelling.
Ah, I can almost smell this picture. A heady musk of armpits and coffee breath, with a slight salt-and-vinegar-crisp undertone.
If you’re booking far enough in advance that you can get a 2 hour journey for £25 you should be able to reserve a seat, but then of course there’s no guarantee that you can physically shove your way through or that there won’t be someone already sat in it. I’ve even been on trains where they announced they were voiding all the seat reservations because it was too busy, which is certainly an interesting approach.
Must be nice! Here, it’s like a game of “Will it or won’t it?” every day!!
I lived in china and Japan
for a while and I will say both china and japan (hell even Korea and Thailands train network shit on ours. We need to take back the corporations and manage them like national services again thatcher really fucked us over on that
I will never give my car up
Don’t forget the ballache of getting to the departure station and onward from where you finally land.
Must be nice! The UK could really use a few of those speedy, reliable trains. We’re still waiting for our upgrade.
Hey….are you being sarcastic man?
Most public transport is a joke in the uk. Especially the further north you go. In the north east if you dont have a car everything needs to be on your doorstep.
Cross Country are certainly a bad joke. A lot of people will blame DfT rather than Cross Country for that though, rightly or wrongly.
On the whole, I don’t find trains to be *that* bad. We all remember our worst experiences.
25£. Nice bargain, good deal right there
Privatised trains are a joke. It doesn’t have to look like this, there are plenty of countries in Europe where things are done better.
£25 what the fuck!!! Down here in Queensland Australia our bus and train is 0.50c.
Yep. Why would I drive when I can pay more than I would in petrol for less comfort and after all the delays/cancellations, a slower journey.
I honestly don’t understand why anyone who can be fully remote or work from home doesn’t. It’s completely wasteful how much travel happens across the world just to sit in a office
is this an england issue trains in scotland arent that bad
I don’t understand, I was promised that tHe fReE MaRkEt would fix everything.
Are you suggesting that train companies aren’t constantly running multiple unrelated services on the same singular tracks to compete by offering the cheapest and best service?
Are you suggesting that the taxpayers paying entirely for all maintenance, repairs, and all costs while the train operators make all of the profits didn’t work out perfectly for everyone?
I for one have been shook.
My mind has been blown.
My gasts have been flabbered.
Train ticket reimbursements from delays/cancellations etc. are up like 500x since pre covid
That blonde girl’s got massive shoulders
Laughs in Japan Rail
When previous and upcoming governments have asked you if you’d like the money saved through lower taxes or selling off rail, this is what it gets you. Trains need money and your ticket price isn’t going to alleviate this. But it could if things were changed. And at a fraction of car running costs.
This GWR by any chance?
Thatcher’s Legacy. Name one aspect of Privatisation that has gone well? Yet amongst Tories, Maggie is still spoken of as a Messiah…
One word – corruption
Seriously how are they expecting people to use trains when they are extortionate…..coach is still fairly cheap luckily.
It’s the UK, everything’s a joke, we’re basically a third world country now.
Every 5:30 train from London. No one wants to wait 15 minutes for the next train, so they all squirm on like little meaty maggots.
I love nothing more than having a reserved seat on a packed train, sitting in my comfy seat like a right smug prick…absolute bliss.
Trains in the south west Plymouth to penzance always seem to be cancelled or delayed and the price from A-B are crazy, cheaper to get the bus ..
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