Reply to: No trains

[kaiser78]

I can attest to the fact that A+E at Lewisham is first class, but you wouldn't want to voluntarily go there either.

I wouldn't want to go to any A+E voluntarily, regardless of where it is...

[NigelJK]

So it's your fault it's tulip!

Actually given that the remit was 'copy Trainline but do it our way'. Was a tad difficult to point out to the marketing dept that's called plagiarism.

[Old Greg]

North of the river is fine. South of the river is garbage; the Overground is as reliable as Wilmslow in a six month contract.

I remember waiting for a train on the Gospel Oak / Barking line in my younger days - IIRC Silverlink ran the service and the trains were every 30 minutes. We waited a very long time and eventually the announcer said that the service was suspended, as the 14:00 train was missing, the 14:30 train had gone to look for it and not been heard from since and the 15:00 train wasn't going anywhere until it was established what had happened to the previous two.

[SueEllen]

I could tell you why they don't make any money as I worked on their 'website' for a while. Best not to though as that's 'commercially sensitive'.

So it's your fault it's tulip!

[BrilloPad]

I can attest to the fact that A+E at Lewisham is first class, but you wouldn't want to voluntarily go there either.

Did you go there to have something removed from inside you after that session with AndyW's mum?

[NigelJK]

I can attest to the fact that A+E at Lewisham is first class, but you wouldn't want to voluntarily go there either.

[The_Equalizer]

Depends how close you can get by car or other means. The tubes go out a pretty long way. Amersham, Watford, Cheshunt, Epping are all posibilities coming from the North

Aren't they all north of the river? Last drove into town in 1995. Swore blind that I'd never, ever, ever, drive any closer than Lewisham, and let's face it, who goes to Lewisham?

[NigelJK]

East Coast trains

I could tell you why they don't make any money as I worked on their 'website' for a while. Best not to though as that's 'commercially sensitive'.

[LondonManc]

Depends how close you can get by car or other means. The tubes go out a pretty long way. Amersham, Watford, Cheshunt, Epping are all posibilities coming from the North

North of the river is fine. South of the river is garbage; the Overground is as reliable as Wilmslow in a six month contract.

[DaveB]

Not sure there's any other sensible way of getting into London. Nonsense about chauffeur driven limos doesn't count as a reply.

Depends how close you can get by car or other means. The tubes go out a pretty long way. Amersham, Watford, Cheshunt, Epping are all posibilities coming from the North

[LondonManc]

Not sure there's any other sensible way of getting into London. Nonsense about chauffeur driven limos doesn't count as a reply.

He's a fantasist with a helicopter on standby.

[The_Equalizer]

Trains are for peasants.

Not sure there's any other sensible way of getting into London. Nonsense about chauffeur driven limos doesn't count as a reply.

[DaveB]

FTFY. Network rail is Nationalised. It and Southern are the only ones not able to make it pay. The common denominator is both are heavily unionised.

Network Rail was brought back into public ownership in 2001 when the company running it couldn't make it pay and wanted more subsidies. East Coast trains was making a profit after it came back into public ownership in 2012 when the franchise holders walked away as they couldn't make it pay. Then Virgin took over in 2014 and it's running at a loss again.

[MarillionFan]

Trains are for peasants.

[kaiser78]

If your contract was dependent on getting to work via Southern this week you might not be so unimaginative.

A lot of people from my place of work and travel via Southern are working from home this week, for the entire week. I guess they are the fortunate ones who are able to do so.