Reply to: Trains

[Mustang]

Bedford is the starting point, but I am at the first stop.

[wendigo100]

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!

I feel sorry for you.

I used Thameslink to go all the way from Luton Airport to Croydon - over an hour on a good day!

I assume you're in Bedford if it's first stop. I guess it's not worth you taking the Bletchley Flyer - if it's still running that is.

[BrilloPad]

So does your client pay you enough for an 11 hour day?

yep - see #14 - mistake in original - its more like a 9 hour day. Most of my colleagues do 11 hour days tho - contract and perm. muppets.

[Sysman]

I am 21 mins from London Bridge with direct trains to cannon street and charing cross. train almost always on time and only 40% full.

but then I live in a (as of yet) undiscovered gem - and I get the 5:50am in, 6:16pm out trains.

So does your client pay you enough for an 11 hour day?

[Mustang]

I do not travel to london much but how does it compare to all the other european captials - is transport better over there?

I lived in Stockholm and the trains were great. The local commuter train was not bad but the intercity were superb. The underground in town was mixed but you could usually get a seat.

Dear old Blighty is bottom in the league!!

[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!

[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.

[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.

[VectraMan]

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

[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.

[Troll]

Isn't New Eltham really just Kidbrooke for snobs?

[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.

[milanbenes]

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

blimey, you do a long day !!!



Milan.

[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.

[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.