Good point Adam - my son uses the buses to get to work because he can't afford the train fair - especially since they discontinued the "Zone 2 to 6" ticket.
cheaper on the train, would need 3 x bus tickets £2.20 per bus to get to work total of £6.60 compared to £5.70 on the train. got quoted £15 quid the other day for a one day travel card!!! crazy, also most people start work before the off peak fares kick in, totally wrong that you have to pay more to use it at peak times, if you were in a pub and it was 2 pound a pint from 11am till 4pm then after it was 6 pound a pint 4pm till midnight i dont think you would find many people using said pub after 4pm..
I can't wait for that period between Christmas and New Year which they deem 'Bank Holiday/Sunday' service despite being normal working days and not reducing your fares accordingly.
i know its been said before, if farmers transported there livestock as train operators transport us at times they would be fined and possibly face conviction..
Train travel all over is shoddy and over priced.What is it with the modern sliding door stock with more standing room and less seats and the stink of piss is and shit unbearable.
Train travel all over is shoddy and over priced.What is it with the modern sliding door stock with more standing room and less seats and the stink of piss is and shit unbearable.
We dont get the smell of piss and shit on our trains thank you very much!
Deffo not being a WUM but living in Charlton I've found the rail services to Cannon St pretty good since they changed the timetable about a year or so ago. Train every 12-15mins or so, I rarely get a seat in rush hour on the way to work but I don't expect to because obviously it's the busiest time of the day. I accept the odd day when circumstances beyond their control mean that there is a big knock-on effect causing delays but on the whole I think it's a pretty good service. I can go from Chartlton to London Terminals for £21.40 a week which is fair enough.
I'm going to be by myself on this I know. I,m quite ok with the service I get from Southeastern.
£138/month Petts Wood to Charing Cross
I get the 6.46 in the morning and the 16.32 in the afternoon , I never have to stand and the carridges are always clean and tidy. Train, to the best of my knowledge, are pretty near always on time.
10 years ago I was putting £30/week in my car plus the cost of road tax, insurance and £250/month car loan to travel 11 miles per day to and from work.
The only down/upside, I drink now that I dont drive.
I also get the train to football on a Saturday, far less hassle
I can't wait for that period between Christmas and New Year which they deem 'Bank Holiday/Sunday' service despite being normal working days and not reducing your fares accordingly.
every year that winds me up.
Oh yeah - that's been one of my pet hates for years now as well. Just like the first week of the school summer holidays when everything's cancelled after half the drivers get mysteriously ill at the same time...
One of the few things that I have enjoyed since being unemployed, is not having to use this 'excuse' for a service.
I agree, the 7 months I didn't work for was brilliant mainly for this reason. Having said that, I agree that if you head into work before 7.45 and after 6.30pm the trains are less crowded and more spacious. Yesterday I thought I had the 'luxury' of getting in at 9am and a bit of a lay in. I was shoehorned into a train at 7.59 and stood with someones arm across my face so I could barely breath and with elbows and rucksacks in my back and I didn't get into work until gone 9. This morning I got my lovely 7.13 train although standing up, I had room to read my paper/book and got to work at 10 to 8.
Oh yeah - that's been one of my pet hates for years now as well. Just like the first week of the school summer holidays when everything's cancelled after half the drivers get mysteriously ill at the same time...
Always seems to happen just before and after a bank holiday too for some strange reason. Especially if the weather's nice.
something needs to be done, when at the station and the announcement comes that the train is late or canceld you just get the usual British sigh and oh well.. need to make more of a protest stand up for ourselves more, make a stand, boycott all trains for one day, block the line, you can’t keep letting massive companies like this get away with year in year out price increases for a less and less standard of service. follow the lorry drivers example and even Colin walshes love child standup for a better Britain!!
Oh yeah - that's been one of my pet hates for years now as well. Just like the first week of the school summer holidays when everything's cancelled after half the drivers get mysteriously ill at the same time...
Always seems to happen just before and after a bank holiday too for some strange reason. Especially if the weather's nice.
I think that can happen in lots of workplaces, its just that when it impacts on us we notice it.
I don't think public transport is bad at all. My commute in and out is plain sailing normally. There's always the odd bad day but there's always going to be - used to get the bexleyheath line and you'd always get some snotty nosed vegetarian professor type toff getting on at Blackheath trying to re organise the whole carriage, assumning that us from the suburbs couldn't do it. Truth is, if you live at Blackheath, the train is full by then so get up earlier or shut up and be squashed.
and btw, i'm generally against privatisation but the fact is that commuter trains into london have always been packed and probably used to be far worse. What about China? they have assistants pushing people on.
Overground isn't too bad, it's the tubes that are the problem. Victoria station is an absolute disgrace in the morning when the end up closing it to ease congestion, which means 200 people are left standing there waiting for it to reopen.
When I breifly worked for Transport for London, they were concerned that Victoria tube station had to be closed because of over-crowding on a regular basis... I mentioned this to my mother who told me they used to have to do that in the mid-1950s when she used to commute! What chance did TfL have if it had been going on that long?
maybe i'm lucky - train from sidcup to charing cross then northern line to warren street - get a seat on both and travel at peak times. Maybe i'm just lucky. And i've got to say, the quality of 'viewage' at Sidcup station is the best i've encountered, having previously travelled from New Eltham and Eltham in my 20 years or so of commuting.
maybe i'm lucky - train from sidcup to charing cross then northern line to warren street - get a seat on both and travel at peak times. Maybe i'm just lucky. And i've got to say, the quality of 'viewage' at Sidcup station is the best i've encountered, having previously travelled from New Eltham and Eltham in my 20 years or so of commuting.
maybe i'm lucky - train from sidcup to charing cross then northern line to warren street - get a seat on both and travel at peak times. Maybe i'm just lucky. And i've got to say, the quality of 'viewage' at Sidcup station is the best i've encountered, having previously travelled from New Eltham and Eltham in my 20 years or so of commuting.
Is "viewage" a bit like "sewage" ??
not at Sidcup it isn't. Eltham on the other hand....
Curb it.I was on a couple of virgin trains last week and they were just mobile toilets.I am a driver so I get the train free and have traveled between Scotland Wales and the South of England and the common denominator is the stink coming off the karsies (not me!!) Thankfully I don't need to use the train to get to work and I would not use it or recommend it to anyone and the cost is just a piss take!
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My season ticket is £3150.
Least you have the option of the coaches Sarf of the river.
I can't wait for that period between Christmas and New Year which they deem 'Bank Holiday/Sunday' service despite being normal working days and not reducing your fares accordingly.
every year that winds me up.
Where do you live?
:-)
Deffo not being a WUM but living in Charlton I've found the rail services to Cannon St pretty good since they changed the timetable about a year or so ago. Train every 12-15mins or so, I rarely get a seat in rush hour on the way to work but I don't expect to because obviously it's the busiest time of the day. I accept the odd day when circumstances beyond their control mean that there is a big knock-on effect causing delays but on the whole I think it's a pretty good service. I can go from Chartlton to London Terminals for £21.40 a week which is fair enough.
I'm going to be by myself on this I know. I,m quite ok with the service I get from Southeastern.
£138/month Petts Wood to Charing Cross
I get the 6.46 in the morning and the 16.32 in the afternoon , I never have to stand and the carridges are always clean and tidy. Train, to the best of my knowledge, are pretty near always on time.
10 years ago I was putting £30/week in my car plus the cost of road tax, insurance and £250/month car loan to travel 11 miles per day to and from work.
The only down/upside, I drink now that I dont drive.
I also get the train to football on a Saturday, far less hassle
something needs to be done, when
at the station and the announcement comes that the train is late or canceld you
just get the usual British sigh and oh well.. need to make more of a protest
stand up for ourselves more, make a stand, boycott all trains for one day,
block the line, you can’t keep letting massive companies like this get away
with year in year out price increases for a less and less standard of service.
follow the lorry drivers example and even Colin walshes love child standup for
a better Britain!!
I don't think public transport is bad at all. My commute in and out is plain sailing normally. There's always the odd bad day but there's always going to be - used to get the bexleyheath line and you'd always get some snotty nosed vegetarian professor type toff getting on at Blackheath trying to re organise the whole carriage, assumning that us from the suburbs couldn't do it. Truth is, if you live at Blackheath, the train is full by then so get up earlier or shut up and be squashed.