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Many people do travel to intermediate destinations not just Waterloo. It wasn't possible yesterday to even run an hourly Basingstoke-Woking shuttle. I'm lucky in Farnborough that I have Frimley and the North Downs line as alternatives, responses like this will just push people to buy that extra...

Having read this discussion through, I think overall those on the ground are trying to make the best of what they are given. The decisions that leave them with making those choices have been already decided by other more senior people or the Government/DfT e.g. i. How many spare drivers and...

Is that their way of getting out of paying delay repay?

Went through Farnborough this morning, no obvious sign about the complete closure tomorrow, not on their twitter feed either. As the station has 1000 parking spaces Tuesday is likely to be chaos. Called the SWR helpline and they said it was maintenance work - might be a cover story

Just had an email that 4 car parks are shutting all of next week. No reason given just operational reasons can anyone shed any light on this. https://www.southwesternrailway.com/travelling-with-us/at-the-station/car-park-closures Aldershot, Alton, Fareham closed, Farnborough mostly closed...

Thankfully today they've reinstated the 708 from Basingstoke providing much needed extra capacity from Hook to Farnborough stations

You could always buy the London CIV ticket then Eurostar is bound by law to put you on a later train.

SWR website saying - NR hoping to do a repair this weekend with a limited services to all stations on Monday -if it is successful. https://www.southwesternrailway.com/~/link.aspx?_id=3F9B538BBDC144C9884D346ADD0AFDBC&_z=z 1674133304 SWR twitter this morning on autopilot tweeting a map about this...

Has the choice to run a 90min woking to basingstoke service come at the expense of running 2tph from Farnborough to Waterloo? Is this driven by not being able to provide rail replacement coaches?

Looking at swr twitter today they are advising that taking gwr to exeter is a valid alternative route and Basingstoke and beyond via Reading and Paddington is allowed but the website doesn't mention this still. Also driving to Alton line stations is now allowed for those with a Rail Replacement...

Hopefully cutting the scope will allow SWR to run the remaining sections well. Monday I came up to Waterloo from Farnborough North via Guildford all ok but heading home I went and caught the 1720 southampton central which was stopping at Woking, Farnborough main and Basingstoke. At 1717 the...

Official message was to move back to USA where his wife is from. Andy Lord will be acting Commissioner. Deputy Commissioner Gareth Powell left yesterday for Stansted.

I'm one of those former gold card holders in Hampshire though on a smaller scale. I live 2 miles from Farnborough station, I've found I can save £7 by cycling to Brookwood (7 miles) and make the decision on the day depending on the weather. Plus given that SWR have halved the peak frequency to...

The challenge is that the mayor has few ways to raise money for TfL. The current fares funding was only sustainable with the very busy network that existed pre covid. Fares are regressive with the rich paying less on fares as a proportion of income. New York has a 4.5% higher sales tax rate in...

Council tax is still far lower in London than the rest of the uk. On top the bands haven't been revalued and London house prices have grown far more than other parts of the country. Perhaps the TfL council tax precept should go up drastically to cover more of the running costs. It could double...

That's why no one travels at 70 or more when driving on Motorways nor accelerates when the traffic light goes amber.

SWR have toned down their quiet carriage message. It doesn't have the picture of a mobile phone crossed out but says that some customers value a quieter space. Commuting for years I tried to avoid quiet carriages the other carriages were pretty quiet and you could make a short phone call if...

There's a real capacity vs reliability trade-off going on place here. In the last change an extra fast service was introduced on the Guildford line which I guess was most welcome given the crowding on the route. But it would be more reliable if this service hadn't been introduced. I counted 25...

What surprises me is that SWR's response today is still the same as Wednesday. I would have thought a through service from Winchester to Waterloo would be possible by now, yesterday they couldn't run a peak half hourly shuttle from Winchester to Baskingstoke and my non-cancelled trains from...

Also remember that while almost all Southern long distance trains stop at Clapham in the peak there's a long time during the peak when long distance trains on SWR don't stop at Clapham. Working at Victoria I regularly get the 0846 from WOK which is first train after the high peak ban to stop at...