Trains: They're not as bad as people make out...
Discussion
geeteeaye said:
That's the best thing about trains, being able to drink on them. Makes journeys to footy matches much more fun on a saturday morning!
I must be getting old as I hate sitting near to people drinking on trains. I just feel a little uncomfortable, especially if they are really going for it. No offence to you by the way
Garlick said:
geeteeaye said:
That's the best thing about trains, being able to drink on them. Makes journeys to footy matches much more fun on a saturday morning!
I must be getting old as I hate sitting near to people drinking on trains. I just feel a little uncomfortable, especially if they are really going for it. No offence to you by the way
Podie said:
Chapppers said:
Twice i've been on a train in the last 2 months, and twice I've ended up with some kind of illness the day / two days after.
Correlation, not necessarily causation.Either that, or your immune system is shot.
Off peak is okayish, peak sucks in a big way, no seat 90% of the time, people standing on top of you that have not been near a bath for weeks, toothbrush and toothpaste are alien artefacts in their life and deodorant is is something they have only read about in magazines. I just love being subjected to inane conversations about who will buy the bread and if the dog really does need a chew toy again this month while they stand on top of me screaming down the phone.
All this joy for only £400 a month. If I was able to drive in I would without doubt, but thanks to Ken and his Eco nutjobs, it is been made impossible to actual do this without taking on another job to pay for the transport for my first job!
Give me a car, warm with my own seat, actual personal space, leave when I chose, radio etc. Anyday over the ridiculously priced peak time train service.
All this joy for only £400 a month. If I was able to drive in I would without doubt, but thanks to Ken and his Eco nutjobs, it is been made impossible to actual do this without taking on another job to pay for the transport for my first job!
Give me a car, warm with my own seat, actual personal space, leave when I chose, radio etc. Anyday over the ridiculously priced peak time train service.
Edited by Traveller on Tuesday 15th February 10:48
Traveller said:
Off peak is okayish, peak sucks in a big way, no seat 90% of the time, people standing on top of you that have not been near a bath for weeks, toothbrush and toothpaste are alien artefacts in their life and deodorant is is something they have only read about in magazines. I just love being subjected to inane conversations about who will buy the bread and if the dog really does need a chew toy again this month while they stand on top of me screaming down the phone.
All this joy for only £400 a month. If I was able to drive in I would without doubt, but thanks to Ken and his Eco nutjobs, it is been made impossible to actual do this without taking on another job to pay for the transport for my first job!
Give me a car, warm with my own seat, actual personal space, leave when I chose, radio etc. Anyday over the ridiculously priced peak time train service.
Motorbike.All this joy for only £400 a month. If I was able to drive in I would without doubt, but thanks to Ken and his Eco nutjobs, it is been made impossible to actual do this without taking on another job to pay for the transport for my first job!
Give me a car, warm with my own seat, actual personal space, leave when I chose, radio etc. Anyday over the ridiculously priced peak time train service.
Edited by Traveller on Tuesday 15th February 10:48
I think they are generally ok.
I make a trip down to Kent to see my mum (I live in west london) about twice a month, generally travel about mid evening on a friday and get the high speed train from St Pancras, 1hr 20 mins, takes a bit longer to do the whole trip than the car, but it means I don;t have to face the M25. Return trip, off peak, with a network railcard is £22.85, roughly about the same as I could do the trip in the car. Normally £35 though.. railcard is £25 per year.
As it only makes a few stops in Kent, and doesn't stop near the medway towns, there are generally few pikeys per sq metre (ppsm) so as not to disrupt ones reading of the brosdsheets..
I make a trip down to Kent to see my mum (I live in west london) about twice a month, generally travel about mid evening on a friday and get the high speed train from St Pancras, 1hr 20 mins, takes a bit longer to do the whole trip than the car, but it means I don;t have to face the M25. Return trip, off peak, with a network railcard is £22.85, roughly about the same as I could do the trip in the car. Normally £35 though.. railcard is £25 per year.
As it only makes a few stops in Kent, and doesn't stop near the medway towns, there are generally few pikeys per sq metre (ppsm) so as not to disrupt ones reading of the brosdsheets..
Chapppers said:
Podie said:
Chapppers said:
Twice i've been on a train in the last 2 months, and twice I've ended up with some kind of illness the day / two days after.
Correlation, not necessarily causation.Either that, or your immune system is shot.
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