RobShipway
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Apologies if any of these comments have been made before, but it seems to me as time goes by that the Railway Systems of this Country seems to be going backawards rather than fowards.
When I was growing up during the 1970/1980's you had trains running from Brighton to Manchester or Brighton to Glasgow/Edingburgh which went either via Kensington Olympia and on to the GWML at Old Oak Common to go on to Reading before going on to Oxford, Banbury, Leamington Spa & Coventry then on to Birmingham. At the beginning of privatisation you had the service from Brighton which originally went to Rugby, then got cutback to Milton Keynes to then be started from Clapham Junction as the path to Brighton had been taken by another service on the route.
Services such as the Brighton services mentioned above and services like Cleethorpes - Kings Cross plus other such services around the country seem to have disappeared off the map with services that you have to change on to another train, another 2 trains or anther 3 trains etc....that once you could have done by travelling on one train.
I know most of these changes are down to making the more local services better, but it should not have been done on the expense of making these special services disappear all together, there should have been a way to keep these services.
When I was growing up during the 1970/1980's you had trains running from Brighton to Manchester or Brighton to Glasgow/Edingburgh which went either via Kensington Olympia and on to the GWML at Old Oak Common to go on to Reading before going on to Oxford, Banbury, Leamington Spa & Coventry then on to Birmingham. At the beginning of privatisation you had the service from Brighton which originally went to Rugby, then got cutback to Milton Keynes to then be started from Clapham Junction as the path to Brighton had been taken by another service on the route.
Services such as the Brighton services mentioned above and services like Cleethorpes - Kings Cross plus other such services around the country seem to have disappeared off the map with services that you have to change on to another train, another 2 trains or anther 3 trains etc....that once you could have done by travelling on one train.
I know most of these changes are down to making the more local services better, but it should not have been done on the expense of making these special services disappear all together, there should have been a way to keep these services.