OwenB
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Anecdotally, looking through the @GNRailUK twitter feed, it looks like a bigger s**t show than it has been for the previous two weeks. So much for (secret) emergency timetables alleviating the issues.
I don't understand how you can remove a bunch of services and still have last minute cancellations. The 6.07 HAT-KGX was cancelled with maybe 5 minutes notice.
The 0720 from Stevenage was 8-Cars. Unable to board.
You’d think they’d try and lengthen as much as possible to 12 given only 4 trains from Stevenage between 0700 and 0800 when there used to be 8.
Yep, during the Southern debacle the emergency timetable lasted a few months with many trains deleted out and the timetable changing each week. Delay Repay was continually honoured during this and amounted to a 10% saving on my season ticket renewal.Even when there has been a real emergency timetable I have submitted Delay Repay claims on the basis of the timetable that was published when I bought my ticket.
They have always been paid.
Did he have several days growth of beard and looking undernourished?I got on a Thameslink train at Rochester yesterday evening, thought I was hallucinating! All sense of reality was lost when it stopped at Higham - and a brave passenger got on!
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wow things are really bad on Thameslink this morning - a 2 hour gap between services from Sutton to Wimbledon during the morning rush hour peak.
if this was a one off I could understand, but from what i have been reading this disruption could last until at least August ??
It is clearly a nonsense that with the current disruption on part of a supposedly nationwide public network that there should be any question over disrupted travellers able to take the next available train for a journey without difficulty. The RDG, or failing any leadership from them the DfT, should issue such an instruction to all operators, and not rely on individuals to do it or not, and publicise it or not. The RDG have already accepted separately that split tickets are a quite acceptable way to make an overall journey.Even if I'm allowed to travel on later TL and VTEC services to get to Leeds in the event that the 0755 from Arlesey is cancelled, my concern is that Northern could refuse to accept the tickets as a through journey and being required to pay £23.40 to continue to Blackpool.
If my long-term experiences with GTR were anything to go by, I'd guess that a 10% cost saving was represented by a 50% or greater stress and personal disruption increase! The life turmoil caused by major and long-term travel problems is not even remotely compensated for by 'Delay Repay', etc.Yep, during the Southern debacle the emergency timetable lasted a few months with many trains deleted out and the timetable changing each week. Delay Repay was continually honoured during this and amounted to a 10% saving on my season ticket renewal.
What an complete nightmare. It now takes forever just to get to gravesend thanks to this c*rappy timetable.
And what does your opinion on that have to do with Gravesend, exactly?Abbey Wood should be grateful it's got Thameslink AND Crossrail, so I can't feel too sorry for Abbey Wood nor Woolwich for that matter
It's bad on the historic Bedpan route. No all-stations trains shown northbound for 75 minutes between around 09:00 and 10:15. Can't trust those that are shown not to skip-stop. Therefore the only reliable way to go north (e.g. Luton Airport) is to get a coach (probably all rammed), taxi (waste of £75) or go to St Pancras and hope for the best, wasting another hour.
Prior to May 20 we had a reliable 15-minute service with reliable connections at St Albans. What an utter omnishambles! UK rail is in tatters.
Did this include the route via London Bridge in addition to the route via Elephant & Castle? Or because of the long period of trains being diverted via Elephant & Castle were there a significant number of drivers who had not been trained in the revised route via London Bridge?All existing Thameslink drivers prior to the new timetable signed Bedford to Brighton and the Sutton loop. The majority of Thameslink drivers (Perhaps not Brighton and Three Bridges drivers) also signed to Sevenoaks and Orpington (as far as I know). I don't think driver route knowledge is an issue on these services.
When the decision was take to modify the Thameslink routes because of Windmill Bridge Jn capacity issues a big change also occured that wasn't picked up by many people. Prior to the change none of the existing routes were changed in a major way (minor = Bedford - Gatwick instead of Bedford Three Bridges) as all the ECML - TL routes were paired with new to TL services to the South (ex Southern) too (e.g. Cambridge - Tattenham Corner or Welwyn GC - Caterham (peak only) but with those changes they decided to chop some existing TL routes in 2. E.g. Sevenoaks - Bedford is no more with the Sevenoaks portion going to Welwyn GC from next May.This is the bit that is the least easy to understand - I get that some drivers don't know London Bridge but what has changed with regard to the rest of the historic route - even more so Luton / St Albans to Sutton or Blackfriars to Sevenoaks? Is there some messroom somewhere with loads of spare drivers not doing anything simply because some part of the unit diagram operates on one of the new bits of route and so the whole working for the day is cancelled?
Did this include the route via London Bridge in addition to the route via Elephant & Castle? Or because of the long period of trains being diverted via Elephant & Castle were there a significant number of drivers who had not been trained in the revised route via London Bridge?
The 0720 from Stevenage was 8-Cars. Unable to board.
You’d think they’d try and lengthen as much as possible to 12 given only 4 trains from Stevenage between 0700 and 0800 when there used to be 8.