Recent content by Robin GX

Can someone get back to the original question?

Yesterday I travelled from Birmingham to Newcastle on a Cross Country Voyager. An efficient journey but marred by the incessant grunt and vibration of the diesel engines right below me. Being a regular Chiltern traveller I am used to this, but it is such a relief to ride electric when on the...

Conductor means driver in Spanish....

Why can't more Virgin services to and from the north stop at Watford Junction like they used to. Right now there is one service to Liverpool per day that stops, at 5.50 am! And to Manchester one also, at a more civilised 6.50 am. I travel to Liverpool at least once a week, and it would be...

One train an hour is not bad really, especially as there is the London Midland option as well. Manchester is a much bigger and more important city than Liverpool.

Gerrards Cross. Brilliant, mostly down to the caring staff who, led by Tony, are absolutely fantastic.

Service is ok, plenty of food and drink though all delivered without any style at all. I find East Coast's offering better, and the seats in First a lot more comfortable and spacious than the narrow Pendolinos.

I follow Chiltern, Virgin and East Coast separately. Very useful except that East Coast has the habit of retweeting satisfied customers saying how wonderful the staff on such and such a train were, which is annoying when you are on a train getting exactly the opposite.