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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Sept 6, 2023 19:52:59 GMT
You must of been unlucky, only once have I had issues with a train to Scotland and that was down to flooding in the Carlisle area closing the WCML and LNER giving out incorrect information on the ECML service to Edinburgh. Every other trip has been faultless and the last time I went, the train even arrived slightly earlier than planned at Glasgow. The more pressing issue is cost, the fact Avanti is charging extortionate amounts of money for journeys quicker and cheaper by plane is absolutely abhorrent. This might not be so popular with the forum, I can promise the heat hasn’t gotten to my head 😂 but I do think the railways should be properly renationalised to, especially, reduce ticket prices. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/what-great-british-railways-shake-24149631.ampThe cost also plays a big part. I'm up North next week and am flying back from Manchester as opposed to getting the train. The seats on the plane are also starting to fill up, and being the 9pm arrival into Heathrow there's not much to connect to so I'd assume quite a decent chunk, if not most of the plane will be doing journeys that are only Manchester to Heathrow like mine. I think Avanti are very lucky that BA don't fly into City Airport from Manchester otherwise it would certainly be a faster trip flying and quite possibly a cheaper one too. I think it shows the negative effect that this level of bureaucracy has on travel patterns. A Spanish company is better at setting its airfares than the DfT are with setting rail fares. |
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Post by southlondon413 on Sept 6, 2023 20:00:51 GMT
The more pressing issue is cost, the fact Avanti is charging extortionate amounts of money for journeys quicker and cheaper by plane is absolutely abhorrent. This might not be so popular with the forum, I can promise the heat hasn’t gotten to my head 😂 but I do think the railways should be properly renationalised to, especially, reduce ticket prices. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/what-great-british-railways-shake-24149631.ampThe cost also plays a big part. I'm up North next week and am flying back from Manchester as opposed to getting the train. The seats on the plane are also starting to fill up, and being the 9pm arrival into Heathrow there's not much to connect to so I'd assume quite a decent chunk, if not most of the plane will be doing journeys that are only Manchester to Heathrow like mine. I think Avanti are very lucky that BA don't fly into City Airport from Manchester otherwise it would certainly be a faster trip flying and quite possibly a cheaper one too. I think it shows the negative effect that this level of bureaucracy has on travel patterns. A Spanish company is better at setting its airfares than the DfT are with setting rail fares. Your choice is yours alone to make but personally I think that’s terrible for the environment to fly from Manchester to London. We should have a rail system that pretty much makes flights within the UK obsolete. |
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Sept 6, 2023 20:15:55 GMT
The cost also plays a big part. I'm up North next week and am flying back from Manchester as opposed to getting the train. The seats on the plane are also starting to fill up, and being the 9pm arrival into Heathrow there's not much to connect to so I'd assume quite a decent chunk, if not most of the plane will be doing journeys that are only Manchester to Heathrow like mine. I think Avanti are very lucky that BA don't fly into City Airport from Manchester otherwise it would certainly be a faster trip flying and quite possibly a cheaper one too. I think it shows the negative effect that this level of bureaucracy has on travel patterns. A Spanish company is better at setting its airfares than the DfT are with setting rail fares. Your choice is yours alone to make but personally I think that’s terrible for the environment to fly from Manchester to London. We should have a rail system that pretty much makes flights within the UK obsolete. Yes, also part of my inspiration is Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion. Their influential protests mean that I leaned more to the plane than I otherwise would have. I think the rail system between major domestic flight corridors LHR<>MAN, LHR<>GLA and LHR<>EDI is decent enough but could be better. We don't have proper high speed rail in this country apart from HS1 which goes into Kent. I think there's also an aspect of Domestic flights where a lot of them cater for travellers connecting through Heathrow. People won't bother with British Airways if you are forced out of Heathrow onto a train to Manchester through Euston when you could just change flights elsewhere and fly directly into Manchester. I need to be at Manchester Airport 30 minutes before the plane departs at 20:00 with it arriving into Heathrow at 21:00, the plane will park up at Terminal 5a, I have no border control or luggage to pick up. I'll be out in around 15-20 minutes considering I'm deplaning an A320 which isn't that big. The train that leaves at 20:15 will arrive at 22:30. Even if it took longer to leave the plane than I anticipate I'll be home before the train from the same time will allow me to come home. |
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Post by buspete on Oct 16, 2023 20:16:28 GMT
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Post by wirewiper on Jul 8, 2024 16:48:12 GMT
Eurostar has agreed to pay eligible staff a £650 bonus for working London-Paris services during the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games period. Eurostar had been proposing a shift-based payment system, but agreed instead to the RMT Union's counter-proposal for a flat rate.
Eurostar has added gold to the livery of two of its class e320 trains. Around two million people are expected to travel to and from the Games between July and September. The peak travel dates are expected to be 25-27 July and 10-12 August, coinciding with the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the Olympic Games; up to eight additional services will operate on the London-Paris route on the busiest days.
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Post by twobellstogo on Jul 8, 2024 16:57:25 GMT
Eurostar has agreed to pay eligible staff a £650 bonus for working London-Paris services during the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games period. Eurostar had been proposing a shift-based payment system, but agreed instead to the RMT Union's counter-proposal for a flat rate. Eurostar has added gold to the livery of two of its class e320 trains. Around two million people are expected to travel to and from the Games between July and September. The peak travel dates are expected to be 25-27 July and 10-12 August, coinciding with the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the Olympic Games; up to eight additional services will operate on the London-Paris route on the busiest days. Phew. I have a return Eurostar booked (to Brussels, then on to Germany) next month and I didn’t fancy checking to see if my trains were cancelled. Thanks for this info : appreciated. |
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