Flying Snail
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I was told it was unlikely I would be reimbursed the taxi fare to Berkhamsted (£30).
Would it be unreasonable for London Midland to own a small fleet of coaches (say 15) for these kind of eventualities? Maybe train a few drivers to drive coaches?
Yes it would be unreasonable as well as being pointless. You would need several hundred coaches to come close to providing a meaningful replacement for the southern WCML in capacity terms.
These complaints always come down to individuals wanting 1 coach put on at the time and journey they want to make. It doesn't work like that, advertise a partial replacement for a service you can't even provide 10% replacement capacity and all you will do is create chaos with hordes of passengers unable to travel anyway.
As for your claim for taxi fares, who'd want to run a railway? Some random fools on one of the thousand of rail adjacent sites causes your business to be shut down and not only do you suffer massive disruption but suddenly every passenger wants £££ in compensation, money you most likely will never recover from the people responsible in the first place.