Bit humid, but will be a lovely cycle home to Eltham in about 20 minutes. Might go via Greenwich Park on the way back, then stop off at the princess of wales for a casual pint on the heath.
Glad I won't be squashed into a slow running late train....
My thoughts are with you guys. Meanwhile, DLR is currently operating a good service, bit disappointed I've not got a window seat this afternoon, but all good other than that.
My thoughts are with you guys. Meanwhile, DLR is currently operating a good service, bit disappointed I've not got a window seat this afternoon, but all good other than that.
My thoughts are with you guys. Meanwhile, DLR is currently operating a good service, bit disappointed I've not got a window seat this afternoon, but all good other than that.
The problem is, it’s Network Rail who impose speed restrictions that although doesn’t actually make rail companies reduce the services, if they didn’t there would be uproar as hardly anything would be moving. it does unfortunately make sense, like it or not, it’s better for all.......IF thy get it right.
yeah i don't understand that - do they think people can just not go in because of the weather?
Lots can work from home, take a day off or not take a day out that isn't absolutely necessary.
The vast majority can’t.
If they’re gonna impose something like this then they shouldn’t be selling day tickets at stations. If anyone takes their kids for a day trip up town they need shooting
yeah i don't understand that - do they think people can just not go in because of the weather?
Lots can work from home, take a day off or not take a day out that isn't absolutely necessary.
The vast majority can’t.
If they’re gonna impose something like this then they shouldn’t be selling day tickets at stations. If anyone takes their kids for a day trip up town they need shooting
Exactly, day trippers not pre booked for an event should avoid the trains. If you can work from home perhaps do so. If you have spare days holidays & fancy the day off, on what will possibly be the hottest ever day recorded in the UK, then it may be a good idea to do so. If the numbers are reduced by 20% that would be a great help to those that can't.
Investment in modern trains with working air con would be helpful. The Thameslink trains are decent but those metro trains are not fit for purpose in these conditions. If the track is also unable to take the heat, maybe some investment there is overdue as well!!?
Investment in modern trains with working air con would be helpful. The Thameslink trains are decent but those metro trains are not fit for purpose in these conditions. If the track is also unable to take the heat, maybe some investment there is overdue as well!!?
Yeah but that would mean they’d have to put the prices up every year. Oh wait....
yeah i don't understand that - do they think people can just not go in because of the weather?
Lots can work from home, take a day off or not take a day out that isn't absolutely necessary.
The vast majority can’t.
If they’re gonna impose something like this then they shouldn’t be selling day tickets at stations. If anyone takes their kids for a day trip up town they need shooting
Exactly, day trippers not pre booked for an event should avoid the trains. If you can work from home perhaps do so. If you have spare days holidays & fancy the day off, on what will possibly be the hottest ever day recorded in the UK, then it may be a good idea to do so. If the numbers are reduced by 20% that would be a great help to those that can't.
Most people have got season tickets, they've paid in advance to be able to travel every day of the week. Using a spare days holiday is effectively giving away a day's pay.
Nobody says to you when you hand over thousands for a season ticket, "by the way mate, you won't actually be able to travel on a lot of those days. We can't run a normal service if it's too hot, too cold or too mild, or if it's too wet or too dry, or if it's too sunny or not sunny enough.
It's entirely taking the piss. If you pre-booked cinema tickets and when you turned up they didn't have any films to show, you'd expect your money back. If they really can't run the trains on Thursday, then they should have people deployed at all the major stations on Friday (or whenever they next have a day where they can run a normal service), handing out compensation - "sorry, we couldn't deliver what you paid for yesterday, here's your money back." Utter scum.
yeah i don't understand that - do they think people can just not go in because of the weather?
Lots can work from home, take a day off or not take a day out that isn't absolutely necessary.
The vast majority can’t.
If they’re gonna impose something like this then they shouldn’t be selling day tickets at stations. If anyone takes their kids for a day trip up town they need shooting
Exactly, day trippers not pre booked for an event should avoid the trains. If you can work from home perhaps do so. If you have spare days holidays & fancy the day off, on what will possibly be the hottest ever day recorded in the UK, then it may be a good idea to do so. If the numbers are reduced by 20% that would be a great help to those that can't.
Most people have got season tickets, they've paid in advance to be able to travel every day of the week. Using a spare days holiday is effectively giving away a day's pay.
Nobody says to you when you hand over thousands for a season ticket, "by the way mate, you won't actually be able to travel on a lot of those days. We can't run a normal service if it's too hot, too cold or too mild, or if it's too wet or too dry, or if it's too sunny or not sunny enough.
It's entirely taking the piss. If you pre-booked cinema tickets and when you turned up they didn't have any films to show, you'd expect your money back. If they really can't run the trains on Thursday, then they should have people deployed at all the major stations on Friday (or whenever they next have a day where they can run a normal service), handing out compensation - "sorry, we couldn't deliver what you paid for yesterday, here's your money back." Utter scum.
Not to mention your effectively wasting a day of Annual Leave because of something out of your control - I've only got 10.5 days left to take from my 22-days, thank god I'm not having to waste one of them because SouthEastern are suggesting that I take a day off to avoid their reduced service... If they did that over a few days where I'd be forced to take more than one day off then I've barely any holiday left to take until bloody April next year!!
Its okay for them though because like you say; SouthEastern would still have my full months Season Ticket
Thank f**k I dont have to deal with them!!... Just think about them like now winds me up enough as it is!!
Investment in modern trains with working air con would be helpful. The Thameslink trains are decent but those metro trains are not fit for purpose in these conditions. If the track is also unable to take the heat, maybe some investment there is overdue as well!!?
Investment in modern infrastructure is something that the British public find difficult to stomach.
Crossrail is finally coming thirty years after the rest of Europe did the same thing. But we love to moan about the waste of money spent on all these "white elephants". so we just make do and complain.
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Glad I won't be squashed into a slow running late train....
it does unfortunately make sense, like it or not, it’s better for all.......IF thy get it right.
”that’s okay, have the day off...the train companies have got it spot on”
If they’re gonna impose something like this then they shouldn’t be selling day tickets at stations. If anyone takes their kids for a day trip up town they need shooting
If you can work from home perhaps do so.
If you have spare days holidays & fancy the day off, on what will possibly be the hottest ever day recorded in the UK, then it may be a good idea to do so.
If the numbers are reduced by 20% that would be a great help to those that can't.
Thanks Southeastern.
south western - no mass cancellation or delays expected
so south eastern must have chocolate tracks - they really are the pits.
the winter they cannot cope if the temp drops below 8 degrees
the thing we are experiencing now is called SUMMER
Nobody says to you when you hand over thousands for a season ticket, "by the way mate, you won't actually be able to travel on a lot of those days. We can't run a normal service if it's too hot, too cold or too mild, or if it's too wet or too dry, or if it's too sunny or not sunny enough.
It's entirely taking the piss. If you pre-booked cinema tickets and when you turned up they didn't have any films to show, you'd expect your money back. If they really can't run the trains on Thursday, then they should have people deployed at all the major stations on Friday (or whenever they next have a day where they can run a normal service), handing out compensation - "sorry, we couldn't deliver what you paid for yesterday, here's your money back." Utter scum.
Its okay for them though because like you say; SouthEastern would still have my full months Season Ticket
Thank f**k I dont have to deal with them!!... Just think about them like now winds me up enough as it is!!
Crossrail is finally coming thirty years after the rest of Europe did the same thing. But we love to moan about the waste of money spent on all these "white elephants". so we just make do and complain.