While it’s a bit of a ball ache to get places three hours late, and the resulting over crowding is grim, I have enjoyed travelling for “free” as I keep being so late I’m entitled to a complete refund via delay repay
My staion gets one train an hour and the one I’ve use has been getting cancelled 10 minutes before its due the past week the buss situation is nearly as bad
Have to start going into our office once a week soon and this is what makes it so awful. Just the uncertainty of cancellations and not getting home on time 😒 oh and paying £40 odd for the privilege
I used a train yesterday for the first time in years. It was overcrowded not exactly cheap and late. No wonder there’s so much traffic.
Funny story. A few years ago I was claiming and there was a scheme where the job centre would cover your ticket if it was to get to an interview. At the same time, the company offered to pay my travel expenses to the said interview. Well guess what happened, the train got delayed… And I was refunded. Most profitable job interview ever!
The government will punish the firms behind this by extending their contracts and never holding them to account.
I’ve never seen as many cancellations as trans Pennine trying to get to scunthorpe is impossible unless you’re going on a replacement bus or replacement taxi
The train companies usually rely on overtime to make up for not training enough drivers. Overworked drivers are obviously more likely to have an incident so the union has pulled overtime to put pressure on train companies to make the network safer.
A relative is planning a UK visit early next year and is amazed that he can’t book any trains at the moment. I told him that when he wants a train he’ll just go to the station and wait for one to turn up. If it gets him to his destination, and back again, that’s a bonus, but not to depend on it. In any case he’ll have a lovely time exploring our historic local station.
I’ll never forgive what Chris Grayling did when we tried to change the train timetables and had trains cancelled all summer about four years back.
For a country that created the modern railway, we really are shit at it
Rarely use trains any longer, but had two journeys booked. One next weekend, and one the following weekend.
Had to cancel both. The sad thing is, I wasn’t that surprised.
Trains were shite even before StrikeFest ’22. We were paying out the nose for some of the worst service in the first world.
If these companies can’t provide this vital service then renationalise them for not holding up their end of the bargain.
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While it’s a bit of a ball ache to get places three hours late, and the resulting over crowding is grim, I have enjoyed travelling for “free” as I keep being so late I’m entitled to a complete refund via delay repay
My staion gets one train an hour and the one I’ve use has been getting cancelled 10 minutes before its due the past week the buss situation is nearly as bad
Have to start going into our office once a week soon and this is what makes it so awful. Just the uncertainty of cancellations and not getting home on time 😒 oh and paying £40 odd for the privilege
I used a train yesterday for the first time in years. It was overcrowded not exactly cheap and late. No wonder there’s so much traffic.
Funny story. A few years ago I was claiming and there was a scheme where the job centre would cover your ticket if it was to get to an interview. At the same time, the company offered to pay my travel expenses to the said interview. Well guess what happened, the train got delayed… And I was refunded. Most profitable job interview ever!
The government will punish the firms behind this by extending their contracts and never holding them to account.
I’ve never seen as many cancellations as trans Pennine trying to get to scunthorpe is impossible unless you’re going on a replacement bus or replacement taxi
The train companies usually rely on overtime to make up for not training enough drivers. Overworked drivers are obviously more likely to have an incident so the union has pulled overtime to put pressure on train companies to make the network safer.
A relative is planning a UK visit early next year and is amazed that he can’t book any trains at the moment. I told him that when he wants a train he’ll just go to the station and wait for one to turn up. If it gets him to his destination, and back again, that’s a bonus, but not to depend on it. In any case he’ll have a lovely time exploring our historic local station.
I’ll never forgive what Chris Grayling did when we tried to change the train timetables and had trains cancelled all summer about four years back.
For a country that created the modern railway, we really are shit at it
Rarely use trains any longer, but had two journeys booked. One next weekend, and one the following weekend.
Had to cancel both. The sad thing is, I wasn’t that surprised.
Trains were shite even before StrikeFest ’22. We were paying out the nose for some of the worst service in the first world.
If these companies can’t provide this vital service then renationalise them for not holding up their end of the bargain.