People who decide to get off a train and walk up the tracks are idiots because they are putting themselves in danger, along with anybody else that decides to follows them, it would be interesting if one of these idiots lets themselves off the train and a child followed them and was electrocuted, who would be at fault.
When the problem was sorted there were further delays when the power had to be turned off again to remove these idiots causing further delays to sensible people who can wait patiently.
As for your dying relative line again :roll:, IF there was anyone on the train with a dying relative, did they tell the train crew this or is this your normal headline grabbing what could have, might have headline! Try sticking to FACTS or do you want to be a tabloid "journalist"
Forcing doors open and abandoning a train to walk to the nearest station can't be defended. Sometimes however it is understandable, particularly where the incredible incompetence of the train operating company has driven passengers to desperation. Having boarded a train more than half an AFTER the time SWT has given for the start of the Berrylands train fire, no prior warning was given by SWT of the substantial delay which must ensue.
As the train did not start from Woking until twenty minutes AFTER the fire started, everyone on the train should have been forewarned. We, and our guard, were totally abandoned by SWT, who gave no information at any time about the possible length of the delay. So several thousand passengers on a large number of trains were trapped needlessly in a situation from which there
was no escape, many desperately trying to catch ongoing flights or train connections, and others with pressing work commitments. While many had mobile phones, we were all denied any information to pass on to contacts, or replan our journeys.Will any rail experts tell me seriously that the operating company couldn't say whether we might be trapped there for 5 minutes or five hours???? Well many forced the doors (although I did not), in sheer desperation, and SWT didn't even broadcast any warnings whilst this was going on!!! Whilst this was reprehensible, so was the incompetence of SWT which provoked it. And the current was switched on long before we moved into Surbiton, so it didn't add to the delay. My four minute journey took nearly three hours, due to SWT witholding information!.
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People who decide to get off a train and walk up the tracks are idiots because they are putting themselves in danger, along with anybody else that decides to follows them, it would be interesting if one of these idiots lets themselves off the train and a child followed them and was electrocuted, who would be at fault.
When the problem was sorted there were further delays when the power had to be turned off again to remove these idiots causing further delays to sensible people who can wait patiently.
As for your dying relative line again :roll:, IF there was anyone on the train with a dying relative, did they tell the train crew this or is this your normal headline grabbing what could have, might have headline! Try sticking to FACTS or do you want to be a tabloid "journalist"
Forcing doors open and abandoning a train to walk to the nearest station can't be defended. Sometimes however it is understandable, particularly where the incredible incompetence of the train operating company has driven passengers to desperation. Having boarded a train more than half an AFTER the time SWT has given for the start of the Berrylands train fire, no prior warning was given by SWT of the substantial delay which must ensue.
As the train did not start from Woking until twenty minutes AFTER the fire started, everyone on the train should have been forewarned. We, and our guard, were totally abandoned by SWT, who gave no information at any time about the possible length of the delay. So several thousand passengers on a large number of trains were trapped needlessly in a situation from which there
was no escape, many desperately trying to catch ongoing flights or train connections, and others with pressing work commitments. While many had mobile phones, we were all denied any information to pass on to contacts, or replan our journeys.Will any rail experts tell me seriously that the operating company couldn't say whether we might be trapped there for 5 minutes or five hours???? Well many forced the doors (although I did not), in sheer desperation, and SWT didn't even broadcast any warnings whilst this was going on!!! Whilst this was reprehensible, so was the incompetence of SWT which provoked it. And the current was switched on long before we moved into Surbiton, so it didn't add to the delay. My four minute journey took nearly three hours, due to SWT witholding information!.
