Recent content by quartile

The other thing they could have done is cancelled trains earlier. I held off going to Farnborough station when I saw the incident happened - then they advertised a 10:32 train to Waterloo, this wasn't cancelled until well past 10. I and several others turned up to the station to find it had...

Many people do travel to intermediate destinations not just Waterloo. It wasn't possible yesterday to even run an hourly Basingstoke-Woking shuttle. I'm lucky in Farnborough that I have Frimley and the North Downs line as alternatives, responses like this will just push people to buy that extra...

Having read this discussion through, I think overall those on the ground are trying to make the best of what they are given. The decisions that leave them with making those choices have been already decided by other more senior people or the Government/DfT e.g. i. How many spare drivers and...

Is that their way of getting out of paying delay repay?

Went through Farnborough this morning, no obvious sign about the complete closure tomorrow, not on their twitter feed either. As the station has 1000 parking spaces Tuesday is likely to be chaos. Called the SWR helpline and they said it was maintenance work - might be a cover story

Just had an email that 4 car parks are shutting all of next week. No reason given just operational reasons can anyone shed any light on this. https://www.southwesternrailway.com/travelling-with-us/at-the-station/car-park-closures Aldershot, Alton, Fareham closed, Farnborough mostly closed...

Thankfully today they've reinstated the 708 from Basingstoke providing much needed extra capacity from Hook to Farnborough stations

You could always buy the London CIV ticket then Eurostar is bound by law to put you on a later train.

SWR website saying - NR hoping to do a repair this weekend with a limited services to all stations on Monday -if it is successful. https://www.southwesternrailway.com/~/link.aspx?_id=3F9B538BBDC144C9884D346ADD0AFDBC&_z=z 1674133304 SWR twitter this morning on autopilot tweeting a map about this...

Has the choice to run a 90min woking to basingstoke service come at the expense of running 2tph from Farnborough to Waterloo? Is this driven by not being able to provide rail replacement coaches?

Looking at swr twitter today they are advising that taking gwr to exeter is a valid alternative route and Basingstoke and beyond via Reading and Paddington is allowed but the website doesn't mention this still. Also driving to Alton line stations is now allowed for those with a Rail Replacement...

Hopefully cutting the scope will allow SWR to run the remaining sections well. Monday I came up to Waterloo from Farnborough North via Guildford all ok but heading home I went and caught the 1720 southampton central which was stopping at Woking, Farnborough main and Basingstoke. At 1717 the...

Official message was to move back to USA where his wife is from. Andy Lord will be acting Commissioner. Deputy Commissioner Gareth Powell left yesterday for Stansted.

I'm one of those former gold card holders in Hampshire though on a smaller scale. I live 2 miles from Farnborough station, I've found I can save £7 by cycling to Brookwood (7 miles) and make the decision on the day depending on the weather. Plus given that SWR have halved the peak frequency to...

The challenge is that the mayor has few ways to raise money for TfL. The current fares funding was only sustainable with the very busy network that existed pre covid. Fares are regressive with the rich paying less on fares as a proportion of income. New York has a 4.5% higher sales tax rate in...