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Privatised Railways - customer satisfaction rises
- Thread starter Hampster Gull
- Start date
Booked the ticket a week ago, setting off at midday. It can be done!
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Question 1. Who STOLE the 1983 FA Cup Final cash ?
Question 2. Is it TRUE Enrest has LOCATED it at last ?
1: It's Easter not Christmas, so it's not STOLLEN.
2: Enrest is the COLUMBO of NSC, although he looks more like CANON.
Question 3. Would it happen in Germany?
I thought the train companies only did single tickets, rather than returns, in Germany.
You're aware that's not the norm, right?
Hampster Gull
Well-known member
- Dec 22, 2010
- 13,465
- Thread starter
- #27
You probably could have gone first class for an extra £5.
Does that mean there's a spare seat for my WHIPPET?
Hampster Gull
Well-known member
- Dec 22, 2010
- 13,465
- Thread starter
- #29
Only if you have put it in quarantine first
biddles911
New member
- May 12, 2014
- 348
Yes, it's Southern Rail that's the problem, not the rail network in general. I travelled with Virgin last week and it was a revelation. All the above plus really good service.
They should take away the Southern Rail franchise. The service is terrible and I've been trying for three months to get a couple of refunds. Their customer service agents are idiots and incapable of sorting anything out...
Otherwise fine........!
"Palace, why are their fans soooo much better than ours"....oh hang on, sorry, fixtures.
cheshunt seagull
Well-known member
- Jul 5, 2003
- 2,594
I commute daily on the service into Liverpool St and it is an absolute disgrace. My family spends £9k a year for that absolute pile of s...t.
Norman Baker suck my lozenge
New member
Since I RETIRED
Know WONDER the railway has GONE too ratshit now you've retired.
That's Andy Naylor, not the OP!
Yeah I know [emoji3]
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
- 25,876
Done to death on here but it wasn't the Privatisation that was the problem - it was splitting trains from track (and station).
I visit Clapham Junction most mornings. Admittedly I don't have to, but choose to change there to get a coffee sometimes breakfast. Often choose to change there to get food in the evening.
It works great all the time it doesn't.
Southern (who I need to get home), South West Trains who I think run the station and TFL who I require to get to work don't appear to talk to each other.
I've often had to inform other passengers of the options.
If you know Clapham Junction the options to Shepherds Bush are "variable" to say the least. The options (if one fails) completely the opposite ends on the station. Platform 17, 16 or er 1.
I visit Clapham Junction most mornings. Admittedly I don't have to, but choose to change there to get a coffee sometimes breakfast. Often choose to change there to get food in the evening.
It works great all the time it doesn't.
Southern (who I need to get home), South West Trains who I think run the station and TFL who I require to get to work don't appear to talk to each other.
I've often had to inform other passengers of the options.
If you know Clapham Junction the options to Shepherds Bush are "variable" to say the least. The options (if one fails) completely the opposite ends on the station. Platform 17, 16 or er 1.
Going to pop into this thread tomorrow morning when I face the inevitable post-bank holiday chaos......
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 36,015
i'd say generations of under investment and high running cost of a victorian network might have something to do with it.
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
- 25,876
Under a publically owned system.
It's hardly worth debating, there are very few who agree it was done correctly.
Hugely unpopular and we've been debating ever since.Even right wingers like Redwood thought at the time it was being split up in incorrectly but we're overruled.
Interestingly, although somewhat attributed to Major - similar happened under Blair. The Tube PPP was an utter cluster **** of cock juggling **** ups but Iraq obviously gets the headlines.
darkwolf666
Well-known member
Yes, the way the questions are worded and loaded towards certain sections of travellers. I can't believe that anyone who has just paid for their extortionately priced season and who can't get a seat in the cattle truck they are travelling in will say it's good value or a great experience!