If anyone is wondering the relevance of the dates they are the three busiest days of Royal Ascot.
Hitting the toffs?
If anyone is wondering the relevance of the dates they are the three busiest days of Royal Ascot.
Hitting the toffs?
The vast majority of people going to Ascot are not 'toffs'.
The funniest thing about Ascot is that late morning and early afternoon is that lots of sober, dressed up people trundle down to Ascot and by the end of the day most are far from sober, often half undressed and often extremely obnoxious and rude to other passengers and staff. Not all obviously, but it's eye opening.
If anyone is wondering the relevance of the dates they are the three busiest days of Royal Ascot. Queues for the 6-8 tph after racing finishes on the Saturday can be up to two hours long
Also covering the first three days of the Isle Of Wight Festival.
Oh, I hadn't realised that. Going to be interesting seeing as many of the trains serving all three mainland ports get pretty busy in a normal year.Also covering the first three days of the Isle Of Wight Festival.
I wonder which days of the Isle of Wight are most popular for travelling? Coming back I'd have thought the Monday. Maybe they could and held an additional strike on the Monday.
How about Thursday, Saturday and Monday.
I'm pleased to see this strike includes a Saturday. Most strikes only seem to happen Monday to Friday. Why shouldn't a Saturday or Sunday be included from time to time.
Sounds awfulAgreed. Not many toffs at Royal Ascot. I go every year, but avoid Thursday, Friday and Saturday like the plague as the behaviour is appalling. Drug taking, fights, shagging, you name it. The prices have been hiked and number of tickets sales restricted, presumably to try to shake off its poor reputation.
As ever, of course, it's a prominent minority that spoil it for everyone else
It's a shame there is away of affecting them more on Sundays. That way any day of the week would be affected.At a guess, weekend strikes (certainly Sunday’s) would have less impact because there’s fewer trains running, which in turn means they need fewer contingency/non striking guards, you also lose the secondary effect of the office hours of the management which need to be caught up on. On a Saturday or Sunday typically management/office staff won’t usually work, so won’t have work to catch up on.
I imagine it will be a feature until further notice.As someone who is likely to have to cart himself from Waterloo to Guildford come July, are these problems likely to affect me if it carries on?
It will on the Saturday due to the enhanced Ascot service.It's a shame there is away of affecting them more on Sundays. That way any day of the week would be affected.
So will this strike on the Saturday have no or little impact on management time?
They'll have to cover the Ascot services for safety reasons, due to the sheer crowds that need moving quickly. I also imagine the enhanced services are funded by the racecourse. I would guess that services elsewhere will be more depleted than on previous strike days."Toffs" don't take the train to Ascot, only the common people do. Toffs travel to Ascot by Bentley/Range Rover/other upmarket vehicles and helicopter. Thanks to the stupid RMT going on strike over "safety" more people will be using the more unsafe roads.
As someone who is likely to have to cart himself from Waterloo to Guildford come July, are these problems likely to affect me if it carries on?
This could get messy if they have gone for Royal Ascot/IoW festival weekend. Wouldn't surprise me if things don't improve between SWR and RMT to see something announced affecting a number of days w/c 2nd July - that would impact Hampton Court Flower Show and the first week of Wimbledon Tennis. If they did something w/c 9th July that is the second week of Wimbledon and w/c 16th July is Farnborough Air Show. Late June/Early July is effectively one special event after another on the SWR network and strike action has the double whammy because Managers volunteer to add support for these events, so this stretches the ability to provide that support and run the trains.
They've also gone for the model railway exhibition at the Bluebell Railway just as their XC counterparts went after Warley weekend last November; dogs in mangers spring to mind.
Yes, it's on SWR's website.Strikes suspended I hear.
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Indeed, there should have been a not there.That doesn’t make any sense as written. Did you perhaps mean “... there is not a way of...”?
Q
Asked by Laura Smith
(Crewe and Nantwich)
Asked on: 20 July 2018
Department for Transport
South Western Railway: Compensation
166508
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 28 June 2018 to Question 155260 on rail strikes, whether South Western Railway has made an application in the last 12 months to reimburse the company for revenues lost as a result of official industrial action.
A
Answered by: Joseph Johnson
Answered on: 25 July 2018
South Western Railway has made an application with regards to industrial action.