Llandudno
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Is it just me but in recent years there appears to be a large increase in bicycles on board trains?
But, it’s not only the amount of bicycles on board trains, but the size of them! They seem much bigger and bulkier than ever before? There are BMX, Mountain Bikes, some with huge tyres, electric bikes and I have even seen Just Eat riders with their bikes and storage boxes on board!
The trouble is that there just isn’t the space on board many trains for all these bikes, a couple of journeys I made over the weekend including full and standing 2 Car TfW trains on the north Wales coast, bikes, pushchairs, tents, rucksacks, cases etc and then a horrendous crushloaded northbound XC train from New Street and someone was trying to board with a huge mountain bike!
A know, in theory you are meant to prebook bicycle spaces on certain trains, but how many do, how many simply blag it and what happens if your prebooked train is cancelled/disrupted etc!
Should none fold up bicycles be banned off the rail network?
But, it’s not only the amount of bicycles on board trains, but the size of them! They seem much bigger and bulkier than ever before? There are BMX, Mountain Bikes, some with huge tyres, electric bikes and I have even seen Just Eat riders with their bikes and storage boxes on board!
The trouble is that there just isn’t the space on board many trains for all these bikes, a couple of journeys I made over the weekend including full and standing 2 Car TfW trains on the north Wales coast, bikes, pushchairs, tents, rucksacks, cases etc and then a horrendous crushloaded northbound XC train from New Street and someone was trying to board with a huge mountain bike!
A know, in theory you are meant to prebook bicycle spaces on certain trains, but how many do, how many simply blag it and what happens if your prebooked train is cancelled/disrupted etc!
Should none fold up bicycles be banned off the rail network?