Recent content by AJW12

Ah - that's really odd though. Feel like it would be much easier to just leave it as standard A,B,C,D,E and then switch all reservations off. Can't help but wonder if they care more about making sure someone can't accidentally sit in first class than how to keep confusion to a minimum...

Noticed some reservation chaos today as I was travelling on the 15:06 (Kings X - Doncaster) which was due to be 9 carriages and ended up a 5 carriage set. First, there was no notice on LNER's service updates which they used to do when they short formed services so it took us by surprise. Weird...

As someone with a flight from Gatwick on Sunday afternoon that was completely unaware and assuming the usual timetable.... thank you!

Never thought I'd be defending SWR as a regular passenger but here I am :D SWR is far from perfect - the occasional under forming of trains can be irritating, trains regularly (at least from Richmond, where I catch them from) do run a few minutes late and make connections at Clapham...

This will just be the beginning. They've bent down and given them a no-strings-attached deal for additional pay backdated two years, and ignored any attempt to bring the working conditions inline with any normal job. It won't end here - they know that they've got the government by the short and...

"Nigel Roebuck, who has led Aslef's negotiations with LNER, said members had complained about being consistently "badgered for favours" by managers "outside of rostering agreements and being contacted remotely"." (Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9le7vdw91o) Being asked for favours...

Three months worth - this is absolutely insane. Still, least the new government will fix all this by renationalising the rai... oh wait, this operator has been publicly owned for six years!

Hi all, Long time since I've started a thread so hope I've done this right... I live in and commute to/from Richmond regularly, sometimes using the District Line and sometimes the London Overground, and alarmingly frequently the line is entirely suspended for long periods of time due to signal...

SWR is one of the worst for it. I regularly pick up the Reading services at Clapham and after being told which station we're at, where the train is going, what the next station is, and what to do if you see something that doesn't look right (and occasionally what you'll get fined if you don't...

That's nonsense but it's not the right area of the forum to discuss it - I'm sure there's a very long thread having his debate elsewhere Just putting a word in though for the people saying "we don't need 3tph to London at the expense of cross-north links" - presumably haven't seen the loadings...

Yep, it's worded as if otherwise but as far as I know this is just a return of the previously deferred timetable change - upping London to Newcastle to 3tph and generally thinning out the stops in order to speed the services up. They seem to be working on it again with very little change as this...

There is a good time saving to the X26/SL7 compared to the 285 on the Kingston-Heathrow side, but I do think this is a good example of where the whole Superloop concept has sort of been rushed and glued together without enough thought. The longest gap between stops on the X140 is about 1.6miles...

Quite a few in Wales I know of particularly at Holyhead and Fishguard. I think the tightest at the former is the 11:44 arrival from Manchester Airport, 135miles/3hrs journey - which then forms an 11:48 to Birmingham. 4 minutes!

The contrast is massive now with what I call the 'manual workers' peak vs the 'office workers' peak (which is usually a little later both morning and evening). The former is still consistent Mon-Fri, but amongst office commuters (of which I am one), trains are extremely quiet on Mon/Fri, busier...

Think Brighton has been the worst one, particularly in Summer when it's already very overcrowded. You see the platform announced for a service to/via the capital and then a massive crowd forms around the only barrier(s) that take the scanners. I've almost always had problems with the barriers...