Continual cancellations of railtours

[dan_atki]

I think you should tell the company who cancelled it off.

[pedant] That doesn't really make sense in English. :? I believe you mean:

'I think you should tell off the company who cancelled it'

'tell off' being a verb phrase cannot be broken up as you have done.[/pedant]

 

[Mojo]

[pedant] That doesn't really make sense in English. :? I believe you mean:

'I think you should tell off the company who cancelled it'

'tell off' being a verb phrase cannot be broken up as you have done.[/pedant]

Personally, I'd just say "I think you should make a complaint."

 

[The Planner]

Network Rail only announce engineering work on a T-12 schedule. IE. 12 weeks in advance. A tour can be planned for upto a year in advance, but the operator won't know until 3 months before hand if the route is available.

In this case, NR have announced a blockade 3 months in advance, and it has had the unfortunate effect of a tour having to be cancelled.

It must be emergency engineering work then, as engineering blocks are planned a year out in Rules of the Route blocks. The May 2009 timetable ones wont be far off from being sorted already. That would also go in the face of the entire short term timetable, as that works at least 12 weeks out too. If the engineering work was only decided that late, then there would be not enough time to plan the passenger trains.

 

[alex57601]

The point was nothing to do with on the day availability, but about advertising something (say blue or yellow 37s) you never actually requested. Most high street stores would get done for false advertising...

Correct, but the tour promoters get around that by building in a disclaimer into their T&Cs reserving them the right to run the train with whatever traction is available.

The comparison you make is like comparing apples to oranges.

 

[33011]

Although the 33/73 tour to weymouth had low bookings its good to see that it didn't get caped and ran as promised something very few tour operators would do.Well done to Spitfire i say.

 

[djw1981]

There are too many trips being organised, some of them have uninspiring traction that are not going to attract many enthusiasts.

There is also the factor that a railtour base beyond enthusiasts is a better one. If you go to interesting places, with good on board facilities, you can build up a clientele of normals who will go on the trips, then you get the enthusiasts who will follow a traction type around. The normals will make each tour break even, and the enthusiasts provide the profit and make hiring 'rateable' traction worthwhile financially.

In times of financial difficulty, leisure gets hit first, so there are fewer 'normals' available to go on these tours...