Recent content by Ian1971

Well I was in Newport for work and was trying to get home. Wasn’t travelling for any frivolous reasons

Was on the 16:07 from Newport to Paddington when it was cancelled about 17:00 at Bristol Parkway due to flooding. I was heading to Paddington and colleague was heading to Reading. He decided to try via alternative route via Cheltenham. I said sod it booked hotel on company account and...

Sorry didn’t notice that

GWML fallen over again today overhead wire damage between Paddington and Reading

The 13:33 was full to bursting, currently on the 14:43 to Liverpool and planning on changing at Crewe may well end up on the the 14:33 there. Had been viewing RTT which suggested that the planned stock for the 14:33 wasn’t going to be there for ages, obviously Avanti decided to use a different...

Looking like Avanti West Coast from Euston timetable is collapsing the 13:33 has yet to depart, do you think it worth trying EMR via Sheffield as an alternative?

Not sure which season but I think either 17/18 or 18/19 but Jeremy Hosking then a director at Crystal Palace arranged an end of season special from Clapham Junction to Southampton using one of his main line steam locos

I don’t think the poster was questioning the seriousness of the flooding more asking what can the railways do to try and deal with the increased likelihood of extreme weather

Still no Victoria Reigate trains apart from Weekends, no Victoria from Coulsdon apart from weekends The weekend service is now better than the weekday. GTR seem to see this as an opportunity to no longer provide a proper service. When I moved here 18 years ago in the rush hour we had 4 trains an...

I don’t know why you are worry about the truth of posts now given the amazing amount of misinformation posted in this tread

Having been very critical of GTR service have to praise the driver of my train, wasn’t aware that we were being diverted by Streatham Common and Elephant & Castle until left East Croydon, managed to get a stop added at Elephant to help those who wanted London Bridge

No but many do & some of those who come from South by Train also need to get train to Reigate, Actual service has been more than halved with 2ph instead of 4ph with the 2ph cut 4 coaches with the remainder 3 coaches College have sales about the possibility of extra services but told absolutely...

People on here who broke rules didn’t set those rules and tell people they were expected to follow them & introduce legislation that prosecuted rule breakers The politicians and Civil Servants did that is where the double stand exists

Interesting that they are happy to help out one of the top private day schools in London They haven’t added any extra services to Reigate to help the 1,500 college students there 1642182012 Total chaos at East Croydon at present you’d have thought that when they were running a skeleton service...

on the COVID stats it works both ways my father in law died after a month in hospital with COVID so isn’t included in deaths of those who tested positive in the last 28 days As for the party how on earth can you defend the man, he lies consistently. How can he not know that 100 people were...