Bl**dy Rail Service!!!
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Right I have taken more rides in trains this weekend than in a car and have also recently switched my commuting from the TVR to the train.
Went to the station today, asked for a Weekly ticket to Victoria. £28, so £4 per day. manageable. But if I wait 5 minutes, for £6 I get a travel card, which means I can go else where. So I opt for the Victoria, no I need a photo card. So I ask for a single. £8!!! Not only this but apparently I can only use a Young Person's railcard after 10!! What's the point of having concessions for young people if they can't use it every time they travel!??
Where the
does all the money go?? On bl**dy £30K a year ticket inspectors!! That's double my earnings for a year.
Not only this, but the train is packed, late and uncomfortable. So as usual peolple sit in the 1st class part, but no, the inspector comes along and boots everyone out. So there is a 4 coach train heading to Victoria, with 1 coach empty. Who in their right mind would take a 1st class ticket to Victoria???!!!
In contrast to this, I came back last night on Virgin Trains form Manchester. The train was packed, so I ended up standing in the corridor. Half an hour later the train manager then comes along the train asking who is going all the way, then directs us to the 1st class seating.
"No sense in it going to waste." He says. A man with sense.
But then I arrive in Euston and it all goes to pot. It costs me more to get a single to East Croydon and a single tube ticket than it does to get a travel card. But I don't want to travel all day!! I just want to get on a train to Croydon. How can these prices be justified?? Whilst the service gets worse.
When I drove the TVR to work, it cost me £15 - £20 per week, to get me there in relative comfort (except when it snowed) and fairly rapidly, also generall relaxed. Now it costs me £30-£40 a week and I get in slowly and majorly stressed out, yet the prices keep going up!!!
And they wonder why people drive everywhere!!! So they persecute us for driving and then they shaft us for not.
Arrggggghhhhh!!
Calm, rant over.
Went to the station today, asked for a Weekly ticket to Victoria. £28, so £4 per day. manageable. But if I wait 5 minutes, for £6 I get a travel card, which means I can go else where. So I opt for the Victoria, no I need a photo card. So I ask for a single. £8!!! Not only this but apparently I can only use a Young Person's railcard after 10!! What's the point of having concessions for young people if they can't use it every time they travel!??
Where the
does all the money go?? On bl**dy £30K a year ticket inspectors!! That's double my earnings for a year. Not only this, but the train is packed, late and uncomfortable. So as usual peolple sit in the 1st class part, but no, the inspector comes along and boots everyone out. So there is a 4 coach train heading to Victoria, with 1 coach empty. Who in their right mind would take a 1st class ticket to Victoria???!!!
In contrast to this, I came back last night on Virgin Trains form Manchester. The train was packed, so I ended up standing in the corridor. Half an hour later the train manager then comes along the train asking who is going all the way, then directs us to the 1st class seating.
"No sense in it going to waste." He says. A man with sense.
But then I arrive in Euston and it all goes to pot. It costs me more to get a single to East Croydon and a single tube ticket than it does to get a travel card. But I don't want to travel all day!! I just want to get on a train to Croydon. How can these prices be justified?? Whilst the service gets worse.
When I drove the TVR to work, it cost me £15 - £20 per week, to get me there in relative comfort (except when it snowed) and fairly rapidly, also generall relaxed. Now it costs me £30-£40 a week and I get in slowly and majorly stressed out, yet the prices keep going up!!!
And they wonder why people drive everywhere!!! So they persecute us for driving and then they shaft us for not.
Arrggggghhhhh!!
Calm, rant over.
I take a train from Fleet to Waterloo and then tubes from Waterloo to Hammersmith on a daily basis at the moment. The cost for a weekly peak travelcard + a week's parking pass at Fleet is £87.30 in total.
Trains leave Fleet every 15mins or so during peak times.
There is no way I could drive to Hammersmith and park for the day for that price. Nor would I want to, because I can sleep or read on the train and I can't do that in the car.
I'm sorry you've had a bad journey, but that doesn't mean that the train doesn't make sense in some circumstances.
>> Edited by JonRB on Monday 24th January 14:29
Trains leave Fleet every 15mins or so during peak times.
There is no way I could drive to Hammersmith and park for the day for that price. Nor would I want to, because I can sleep or read on the train and I can't do that in the car.
I'm sorry you've had a bad journey, but that doesn't mean that the train doesn't make sense in some circumstances.
>> Edited by JonRB on Monday 24th January 14:29
My weekly ticket has just gone from £89 to £100 (give or take a few pence)
At the same time my train company have cancelled my regular train during the week, cut peak time services so now people are standing at 6a.m. and made it impossible for me to be at work on time on Sunday unless I drive (Into one of the least car friendly capital cities in the world).
Don't you just love this country
At the same time my train company have cancelled my regular train during the week, cut peak time services so now people are standing at 6a.m. and made it impossible for me to be at work on time on Sunday unless I drive (Into one of the least car friendly capital cities in the world).
Don't you just love this country
DJFish said:
My weekly ticket has just gone from £89 to £100 (give or take a few pence)
At the same time my train company have cancelled my regular train during the week, cut peak time services so now people are standing at 6a.m. and made it impossible for me to be at work on time on Sunday unless I drive (Into one of the least car friendly capital cities in the world).
Don't you just love this country
Sounds like mine - a 15% rise (10%ish rise + loss of 5% discount for being rubbish), and they cancelled 2 of the 7 peak trains
I live in the centre of London and it costs me only about £20/wk more than friends who live out in zone 3 or 4...
I have NO commuting nor crap night buses to get home at 4am after clubbing.
The stress free commute is also priceless imo. The trains are useless these days! Cost me £57 to get a return journey up to Nuneaton to meet a mate to go to the Autosport show. Thats WITH a student discount. Hour journey... ffs! Thats with Virgin, an hour journey back home to Oxford costs £13 return...
Thats another rant of mine... to get home i could either get a single or a return
Single - £12.85
Return - £12.90
I have NO commuting nor crap night buses to get home at 4am after clubbing.
The stress free commute is also priceless imo. The trains are useless these days! Cost me £57 to get a return journey up to Nuneaton to meet a mate to go to the Autosport show. Thats WITH a student discount. Hour journey... ffs! Thats with Virgin, an hour journey back home to Oxford costs £13 return...
Thats another rant of mine... to get home i could either get a single or a return
Single - £12.85
Return - £12.90
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