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I went from Spring Road to Moor Street this morning and back this evening. This morning was fine, this evening there were delays blamed on, wait for it, congestion.
On short-haul the full IATA C fare is often very little more than the full IATA Y fare. Also on short haul, they would just turn more business into economy if that was possible. It depends what the computer says. Also as mark-h says above, they will oversell and upgrade - as a former LH Gold...
This isn't the case at Moor Street, I assure you.
I arrive at Moor Street at 06:48 most mornings and the barriers are open, I can count the number of times they are shut this year on one hand. I get a train back usually around 18:10-18:30 and the barriers are usually open.
I can't speak for weekends but as I'm commuted it for the last five years, it generally hasn't been that bad.
The last six months, are starting to grate.
Flew to Frankfurt (I had Lufthansa miles expiring)
Train to Mainz, stopped three nights in Mainz including a day out in Koblenz including the small DB-Museum there, train to Würzburg via Aschaffenburg, two nights there, train to München (on a Bayern Ticket taking a rather long way round), three...
The Snow Hill Lines evening service has been very poor since the evening timetable came in. Not uncommon for at least one if not two diagrams to be cancelled or running late most evenings. the 18:10 from Moor Street and the 18:39 are the usual victims. If they aren't cancelled, they will...
I visited two years ago.
There's an absolute bargain of a regional ticket which allows travel on the HSB, local DB lines and the buses. It doesn't let you do the Brocken.
I was staying in Quedlinburg, which if you like old towns is worth a day in itself at the Zum Bär on the Marketplace, the...
For those of us who use the Snow Hill lines, it would be nice if they could actually manage the existing service first.
There have been cancellations and/or delays nearly every other day since the new timetable, with as usual, Whitlock's End services taking the brunt of it.
One of the most...
I use Kilgetty quite frequently, the mother-in-law lives very near there, similarly Saundersfoot. I'm surprised that both Kilgetty and Narberth are request stops to be honest as both are well over 10k passengers a year.
I commute on the 07:15 New Street to Glasgow as far as Crewe - on average three days a week, including Mondays. You'll have no problem getting a seat, I can't remember the last time I didn't get a table at New Street. I understand it starts to fill up at Crewe.
The WiFi is much better on the...
When I used it back in July, there were two staff doing the same at St Ives both on entry and exit to the station. 2 2-coach 150's and they were fairly rammed going to St Ives, less so coming back but I was probably departing a little early as I was travelling back to Torquay.
That's the passengers on the direct flights. As someone who has flown BHX-FRA a lot over the last 20 years (as well over 100 return trips), I'd say most passengers are connecting onwards with Star Alliance carriers, maybe 30% of traffic is O&D, BHX-MUC has far more O&D but there's still a lot of...
June 2019
BHX - BRU 10 419
BHX - DUS 22 314
BHX - FRA 29 842
BHX - MUC 18 476
Don't disagree with your overall analysis (and FRA has significant transfer traffic, BRU and MUC has some), but that's a pretty whopping single train a day.
As someone who does business in Germany and lives in...
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