Hastings gull
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- Nov 23, 2013
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Yes, personal abuse is not pleasant is it? So when I write and disagree with what you posted, you will not be calling me an idiot any more?? Or, as I suspect, everybody else should avoid abuse?
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- Thread starter Ernest
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Yes, personal abuse is not pleasant is it? So when I write and disagree with what you posted, you will not be calling me an idiot any more?? Or, as I suspect, everybody else should avoid abuse?
Bladders
Twats everywhere
Hotchilidog
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- Jan 24, 2009
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Oh good, the day I need to get to Gatwick airport
You should still be able to get to Gatwick, from Brighton at least. I have done on every strike day/
WonderingSoton
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- Dec 3, 2014
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I would never encourage personal abuse to an employee trying to do their job. But it's easy to see how a customer who has had the foundations of their life such, as getting to and from work and family, screwed over by strikes and working to rule in such a fashion, could get rather narked off with the workforce. You'd like all sides to deal with it all calmly and politely of course. But I wouldn't call the endless stream of strikes and disruptions a calm or polite way of dealing with things either.
Bladders
Twats everywhere
Thanks, good to know.
I don't really want to get involved in the whole HORNETS nest of who presses the button to open the train doors.
Hotchilidog
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- Jan 24, 2009
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Gatwick Express and TL services still run on strike days. Check before leaving though, but the times should be on the rail planner.
Milano
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Anyone else stuck on this f'ing TL from Farringdon with no air con? Horrendous.
TL times on the planner are aspirational estimates on a good day.
Oh good, the day I need to get to Gatwick airport
You will be ok less it's before 6am or after 6pm then your options become limited.
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Oh good, the day I need to get to Gatwick airport
If you're based in Brighton, would highly recommend booking the National Express coach to Gatwick, either from it's starting point at the bus station in the Steine or at convenient boarding points on the way out of town. Costs less than SASTA, and is far more civilised.
The Merry Prankster
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I'm on the 17.42 from Victoria. I don't commute so this is my first experience of a rush hour train for a good while. Although it's boiling, short carriaged and rammed; people tell me it's not bad.
It's a really shocking state of affairs when people regard this as not bad. It's shit. I can't imagine having to do this twice a day.
Why aren't people rioting?
It's a really shocking state of affairs when people regard this as not bad. It's shit. I can't imagine having to do this twice a day.
Why aren't people rioting?
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15.42? What time are you due at your destination?
The Merry Prankster
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Sorry 17.42.
pearl
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i have a question for the experts ...... Lewes Stn platform 5, can a train come in from Brighton and go out to Seaford from platform 5?
Hotchilidog
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- Jan 24, 2009
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Another good read. I sense his frustration as long as thing drags the more people are prepared to swallow the oft-repeated narrative that Southern's problems are due to the union. A timely reminder that the travelling public are being sold down the river by SASTA and the DfT.
Arthur
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But the union are partially to blame. It's them who are calling the strikes.
Out of his points 1 and 3 strike me as being damned if you do and damned if you don't. Understaffing is a Southern issue, no doubt about that. But what can they do other than recruit more staff? When those staff start they are going to inexperienced surely?
2 I can't comment on as I've no idea if that is true or not. 4 is bollocks, how can you claim staff are loyal when they are going on strike every five minutes. Prior to the strikes if life was that bad why didn't they find another job? It's nothing to do with loyalty its about earning a pay cheque every month and a good one at that for doing very little. Point 5 the blame for that has to lay firmly at the door of the union whipping up the hornets nest and creating this us and them mentality between the staff and the management.
So whilst I agree with you that we are being sold down the river by Southern and the DfT the union also has to take some responsibility as well.
pearl
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thanks, I owe the young man in the blue tabard an apology then, he wasn't an f-ing cretin ( I was over heated, tired and in need of a drink). Last night at Lewes was the most spectacular mess so far. When I have time I will be emailing the relevant people yet again, so bored of this