Recent content by Tin Miner

Yes the rail industry is guilty as charged of crimes against the English language. When I was young we got off trains, we didn't alight.... it would be much better English to say...'The next station which this train will be stopping at shortly...will be.....' or even to be completely anal, but...

Anybody who wants to use the internet on EC is probably better off with a 3G dongle anyway. With a 3G connection the speed is about 7Mb/s, as opposed to about 40Kb/s on EC Wi-fi. The East Coast, certainly Darlington - Newcastle is pretty good for 3G coverage. Costs me £5 a month, rather than the...

Yes, I think they've taken a `big-hit' from corporate First Class dropping, although I also get the feeling that a lot of leisure travellers are switching to cheaper AP 1st to avoid the chavs. I also vaguely recall that some companies with security concerns issue their staff with dedicated 3G...

Whether it's right or wrong to make people pay is not something I have a strong view on. I think that EC has rather missed the boat on this one. I tried the free 15 minutes yesterday, and compared it with the speed I was getting from my Orange 3G dongle. The dongle was a bit faster. If I'd gone...

Discreetly take pictures on a mobile phone and post them here. That will really annoy them

Maybe a Lib Dem government might make a difference....

The forms for East Coast are available on line as PDF files, and they no longer require the ticket to be submitted, just the ticket number, although my wife sent a photocopy of the ticket last week just in case.

Lord Adonis is said to be impressed with the GC streamlined fares options and is looking at EC fares review, but it seems that GC has been losing money. Is this still the case of has the 4th service made a difference to loadings?

Will these additional services be classed as `off-peak' on the Fiday? And out of interest, how is the 16.50 doing since the introduction of the new 19.19 KGX-SUN?

Work is the curse of the drinking classes

Have the 180's been misbehaving? I noticed a couple of cancellations during the week.

The website has now clarified this and the higher fares apply to the 16.50, which I suspect may become rather quiet.

4th Service confirmed for Mon... But the fares section on the website says that the peak fares apply to the first Up and the last Down trains of the day. I thought that the 19.19 back would be classed as `off-peak'

I agree. I remember that a now retired senior ex BR manager once told me that his time could pinpoint the day the recession of the 1980s began by the drop in business fares on the Inter-City route he was involved in running. The nightmare scenario facing the railways at the moment is a...

Oh dear we don't like GC do we.... they make you very very angwy...and make you want to Scweam and Scweam and Scweam until you're sick....