Travelling by FCC bad for your health?

[willingdon_seagull]

Just been on a First Capital Connect train for the first time in ages - and got off with bites all over me! Flea infested bar stewards - and the bloke who was checking tickets onboard didnt even care. I am never travelling with them again - Southern any day of the week!

 

[sod1]

i used to travel daily with them to work at Gatwick, agreed they are shite and as for the ticket inspectors being total wankers who never admit to being wrong

 

[willingdon_seagull]

i used to travel daily with them to work at Gatwick, agreed they are shite and as for the ticket inspectors being total wankers who never admit to being wrong

I told the ticket inspector about the situation and he just carried on checking tickets and just basically agreed that their trains are a disgrace!

I commute to London 2 or 3 times a week and go to London Bridge but will gladly take a Southern train to East Croydon and change to another Southern train there than take an FCC train. I had to join one today as I was travelling from Balcombe to Brighton and it doesnt appear that Southern stop there!

 

[surrey jim]

public transport in this country is shit

 

[steward 433]

public transport in this country is shit

WORD

 

[desprateseagull]

did you inform local environmental health?

 

[British Bulldog]

public transport in this country is shit

In which way do you think it's shit?

 

[steward 433]

In which way do you think it's shit?

Overpriced
Late
Infrequent
Unreliable
No longer provides for the rural population

I could go on and on

 

[British Bulldog]

Overpriced
Late
Infrequent
Unreliable
No longer provides for the rural population

I could go on and on

Personaly i'd say public transport in this country is good because it's safe, But where it lets itself down is trying to run it as a buisness as opposed to providing a service.

 

[Beach Hut]

Personaly i'd say public transport in this country is good because it's safe, But where it lets itself down is trying to run it as a buisness as opposed to providing a service.

I would suggest it may price itself out of the market however with the price of petrol...........

 

[steward 433]

I would suggest it may price itself out of the market however with the price of petrol...........

No chance


One of my staff travels 25 miles to work (diesel car) £5.90 a day

Travel by public transport Bus-Train-bus £31.50

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

i agree with your general point, but what was a ticket inspector supposed to do about a flea infestation?

 

[steward 433]

i agree with your general point, but what was a ticket inspector supposed to do about a flea infestation?

Inform the cleaning team of the carriage number

 

[junior]

The man you need to blame is Dr Beeching!

 

[British Bulldog]

Inform the cleaning team of the carriage number

I imagine he probably did at the end of the journey but there's not much he could do before that.

 

[steward 433]

I imagine he probably did at the end of the journey but there's not much he could do before that.

If the carriage was that bad with fleas then the previous two weeks or so it wasn't reported!!

Even an apology would have gone a long way if it was me

 

[British Bulldog]

If the carriage was that bad with fleas then the previous two weeks or so it wasn't reported!!

Even an apology would have gone a long way if it was me

Everything gets reported these days so I really cant imagine FCC would allow a flea infested coach to be running round for 2 weeks untouched.

 

[bigc]

Everything gets reported these days so I really cant imagine FCC would allow a flea infested coach to be running round for 2 weeks untouched.

Of course not!

They'd send it off to work the Sutton loop.

 

[steward 433]

Everything gets reported these days so I really cant imagine FCC would allow a flea infested coach to be running round for 2 weeks untouched.

That is how it should work but does it really in real life?

Fleas wouldn't be that abundent overnight it takes about two weeks

 

[British Bulldog]

That is how it should work but does it really in real life?

Fleas wouldn't be that abundent overnight it takes about two weeks

Yeah it does, You'd be surprised how many calls I get in my job from train drivers reporting the slightest little things wrong on they're train, It may appear to the paying public that nothings being done but there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes they never get to see.