Trains

[wendigo100]

The train I came in on today was dreadful - even more over crowded than usual. My regular train was 10 mins late and half the number of coaches which meant it was full and I could not get on. All this when I get on at the first stop of it's journey - no point in making any further stops......!! The next train also had reduced number of carriages and just went slooooowly into London.

How can these train companies justify it? Do they care? How can we protest to them? WIll anything make them sit up and listen enough to do sometging about it??!! Boy - just can't wait for the journey home......

Thameslink?

Wouldn't surprise me if it were. I used them for a year in 2003, and every train was dirty, packed, slow and the service unreliable. I switched to Silverlink and cursed for not having done it a year earlier.

[BrilloPad]

Eltham?

New Eltham to be precise. I am 5 mins from A2 and 30 seconds from A20 so have 2 main roads out. 7 mins from M25. As they are so close the traffic flows quite well.

I am 21 mins from London Bridge. 3-bed semi about 200k/300k. A few skanks about - about the same number as when I lived in Wandsworth.

Only thing I dont like is lack of ethnic diversity - not really representative of modern britain. But you can't have everything.

[milanbenes]

'and I get the 5:50am in, 6:16pm out trains.',

blimey, you do a long day !!!



Milan.

[BrilloPad]

'and I get the 5:50am in, 6:16pm out trains.',

blimey, you do a long day !!!



Milan.

good spot - apologies - I get the 4:16pm train out. Basically I do 6:30 until 4 - with about 5 minutes for lunch.

[Troll]

Isn't New Eltham really just Kidbrooke for snobs?

[Cowboy Bob]

My train is great. Always mostly empty, always on time. And they even added an extra train to make it more convenient for me when they re-vamped the timetables recently.

[VectraMan]

Public transport if for poor people. Why is anybody here using it?

[Cowboy Bob]

Public transport if for poor people. Why is anybody here using it?

Personally I have no need for a car. I don't own one and don't really plan on getting one anytime in the near future. Besides, it would take me a lot longer to get to my current client site by car because the traffic is horrendous.

[BoredBloke]

Many Euro cities benefited from the Germans and then the Allies rumbling through them and extensively modifying them in the process through the creative use of high explosives.

[Mustang]

Thameslink?

Spot on!! Nasty service!! I am 10 mins walk form the station so it would be silly to switch to Silverlink for me. Wish I could!