Recent content by wastedlife

I commute from THD, and the 701s bound for Hampton Court regularly announce at Surbiton that Oyster and contactless is not valid beyond Surbiton. Only ever at Surbiton. Conclusion: just one more minor bit of ineptitude associated with the introduction of the 701s.

I live nearest Thames Ditton, and since the 701s have become commonplace on the Hampton Courts, I have travelled on them regularly. I frequently find the toilets both to be defective - far higher incidence of this on the 701s than on the Desiro fleet. "Rare" is not the word I would use to...

BA just isn't going to run long haul out of Manchester, and particularly not in the era of the AA JV. Medium term future is A321XLRs operated by AA from various eastern seaboard airports.

There is a Meet the Manager today at Waterloo. That will be fun. "Very few passengers coming to see us, they must all be very happy with the service." If I didn't know SWR better, I would think they had planned this around the MtM event - although I do think it being Monday today is not...

2L10 is on the slow at Wimbledon. Although I think on Monday it was on the fast because it went up the main rather than via East Putney because of the overrunning engineering works. That was the only time I've been on it when it's gone in on the fast at Wimbledon. P3 at Surbiton isn't...

In 2016/17/start of 2018, yes. The utter chaos you saw on a daily basis at LBG was a sight to behold. Now, I know whose network I would rather live on. The solution, as far as I can see, will only be concerted political pressure from an alliance of MPs across the SWR network to direct the...

There are far more realistic car alternatives in Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle etc, on the XC routes - as well as air options on longer XC routes. When SWR goes down, or makes drastic reductions to timetable, what are London commuters to do? (Answer - wfh, again). Before this...

The only aspect in which I disagree with you is the use of the word "managed", as though there were some element of planning, forethought and deliberation to the decline. In my view MTR and First Group and the individuals in executive management running SWR have completely overreached...

Hope you have got a while....link to 2024 thread BA DYKWIA 2024

The A331 is the dual carriageway from the Hog's Back to the M3, dating from about 1994, and all the junctions are pretty much in the middle of nowhere. I can't see a bus route down the A331 being successful, as it would have to do loops off each exit to go to anywhere worth going to. The A325...

Waterloo got barriers in January 2009 according to this https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/3692, and my recollection was that it was done pretty late for London travelcard zone stations, with most of the stations I regularly used already having barriers. I started commuting from Surbiton in...

Quite a few ten car trains down the branch atm 2x707 - 07:06 WAT-HMC; 07:53 HMC-WAT 2x458 - 08:06 WAT-HMC; 08:53 HMC-WAT 2x707 - 12:06 WAT-HMC; 12:54 HMC-WAT 2x458 - 13:06 WAT-HMC; 13:54 HMC-WAT 2x707 - 17:06 WAT-HMC; 17:54 HMC-WAT 2x458 - 18:06 WAT-HMC; 18:54 HMC-WAT 2x707 - 22:06 WAT-HMC...

Here are some of the files they released - think there is most of the long distance (possibly excluding Exeter and Salisbury) and I don't think I downloaded the Windsor lines at all. Non-stop to and from Surbiton every ten minutes in the peaks - and they wonder why SWR folk prefer working from...

I'd suggest the solution to football hooliganism proposed by Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson in this NTNOCN sketch could usefully be applied. Football Hooliganism

I've done three speed awareness courses in the last four years, but (touch wood) my licence is currently clean since an incident on the A3 at Putney on what would have been my grandmother's 100th birthday back in 2014. The "middle" speed awareness course was a special one for smart motorways...