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Post by matthieu1221 on Jul 12, 2024 21:14:45 GMT
Another annoyance I have is that London Overground and Elizabeth line services seem to cost a bomb if you want to buy a national rail ticket, which isn't a problem if you're staying within the PAYG area, but if you want to begin your journey at one of these stations and go outside London, you can be looking at a costly ticket, even with a railcard. They seem hell bent on pushing people towards contactless. It's frankly not ideal. Plus the added hassle of extension tickets and all (yet still needing to tap out at the boundary unless you've got a 60+ Oyster Card) if you really do want to save as much as possible... perhaps a solution for you, Railcards are going to be able to be linked to Railcards at some point apparently.
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Post by buspete on Jul 12, 2024 23:55:30 GMT
Going back to seating, I understand people’s reservations about longitude seating, however one plus with theses seats is that you don’t get dirty ‘scumbag’ putting their dirty seats all over the seats, so a big tick here.
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Post by borneobus on Jul 13, 2024 0:51:08 GMT
Going back to seating, I understand people’s reservations about longitude seating, however one plus with theses seats is that you don’t get dirty ‘scumbag’ putting their dirty seats all over the seats, so a big tick here. What an obvious but great point; never thought of that but I'm sure those with responsibility for TfL seating specifications have...
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Post by PGAT on Jul 16, 2024 12:55:25 GMT
Commencing yesterday there was a minor timetable change. Off-peak Victoria to Gillingham services are now 8 coaches on Mondays and a few individual services have been retimed by a minute or two.
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Post by greenboy on Jul 30, 2024 17:08:21 GMT
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Post by PGAT on Jul 30, 2024 17:18:51 GMT
Right in the heart of rush hour as well because LOL
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Post by SILENCED on Jul 30, 2024 17:20:45 GMT
The nationalised part of the railway fails us again. Once it is all nationalised the railways will be perfect!
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Post by buspete on Jul 30, 2024 23:01:36 GMT
Because of issues on the Elizabeth Line, no trains at Abbey Wood when going into work at 1pm, overrunning engineering works!
So I had to use Southeastern, who have seemed to have gone back 15 years ago, where they’re running 4 carriage trains again, which with no Elizabeth Line, hottest day of the year, no air conditioning, only 4 carriages make travelling from Abbey Wood unbearable, but not for me watching everyone crowding on a 4 carriage train. I waited 5 minutes longer for a nice air conditioned Thameslink train to come along.
However what I’m saying is not my heroic exploits getting a Thameslink train, but the decision to run four car trains again?
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Post by PGAT on Jul 30, 2024 23:10:25 GMT
I think they reduce length off-peak to save cost in mileage due especially since some networkers have gone into storage. Problem is it backfires whenever demand is slightly higher than anticipated, as you describe
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Post by buspete on Jul 31, 2024 23:15:20 GMT
Okay thanks.
I guessed it was to save money, when the 22,27 Charing Cross - Bexleyheath - Dartford used to be 4 carriages, 15 years ago, I wouldn’t be able to get a seat at London Bridge. When I travel I like to sit, listen to my music and relax.
I appreciate Southeastern have lost a lot of customers to the Elizabeth Line which was always going to happen. Southeastern gave us all the old guff that they couldn’t operate CHX trains via Woolwich/Bexleyheath anymore and now operating reduced length trains. They’re not going to win back customers by offering a poor product?
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Post by route53 on Aug 3, 2024 7:45:33 GMT
Okay thanks. I guessed it was to save money, when the 22,27 Charing Cross - Bexleyheath - Dartford used to be 4 carriages, 15 years ago, I wouldn’t be able to get a seat at London Bridge. When I travel I like to sit, listen to my music and relax. I appreciate Southeastern have lost a lot of customers to the Elizabeth Line which was always going to happen. Southeastern gave us all the old guff that they couldn’t operate CHX trains via Woolwich/Bexleyheath anymore and now operating reduced length trains. They’re not going to win back customers by offering a poor product? I’ve long come to the conclusion that SE have basically given up any semblance of running a decent rail service along the metro routes, the railway has the slowest growth of other rail networks. The Liz line was an excuse for them to run a managed decline service, changing at London Bridge and competing for space was never going to be a winner for long standing commuters who’ve lost their Charing Cross trains. The Liz line however is often so overcrowded that all SE have done is pile pressure on to it.
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Post by SILENCED on Aug 3, 2024 9:58:49 GMT
Okay thanks. I guessed it was to save money, when the 22,27 Charing Cross - Bexleyheath - Dartford used to be 4 carriages, 15 years ago, I wouldn’t be able to get a seat at London Bridge. When I travel I like to sit, listen to my music and relax. I appreciate Southeastern have lost a lot of customers to the Elizabeth Line which was always going to happen. Southeastern gave us all the old guff that they couldn’t operate CHX trains via Woolwich/Bexleyheath anymore and now operating reduced length trains. They’re not going to win back customers by offering a poor product? I’ve long come to the conclusion that SE have basically given up any semblance of running a decent rail service along the metro routes, the railway has the slowest growth of other rail networks. The Liz line was an excuse for them to run a managed decline service, changing at London Bridge and competing for space was never going to be a winner for long standing commuters who’ve lost their Charing Cross trains. The Liz line however is often so overcrowded that all SE have done is pile pressure on to it. A sneak peek at how nationalised rail works.
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Post by vjaska on Aug 3, 2024 11:36:42 GMT
I’ve long come to the conclusion that SE have basically given up any semblance of running a decent rail service along the metro routes, the railway has the slowest growth of other rail networks. The Liz line was an excuse for them to run a managed decline service, changing at London Bridge and competing for space was never going to be a winner for long standing commuters who’ve lost their Charing Cross trains. The Liz line however is often so overcrowded that all SE have done is pile pressure on to it. A sneak peek at how nationalised rail works. It really isn’t - Southeastern have long been terrible regardless of who has been running it.
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Post by greenboy on Aug 14, 2024 16:44:25 GMT
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