Tonight's trains...

[Beach Hut]

Maybe because they are using the carriages to get thousands of people home from London between 5pm and 7.30pm on Tuesdays?

At last the penny has dropped and some sense.

SR has an obligation to run a complete service weekday evening for commuters ergo night games will always be an issue.

 

[CheeseRolls]

Southern actually deserve credit for the reliability of those crappy old three carriage units, we seem to be stuck with on the coastway lines. These used to run from Clapham Junction to Willesdon Junction and there would be a couple of break downs every week, blocking the lines and causing delays. Isn't it great that with a competitive privatised train network, where all the train companies compete against each other, the government can still decide that it would look better for the Olympics if London had all the modern trains and rather than just buy new ones, shunt the old rubbish down onto the South Coast.
[MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] [MENTION=153]perseus[/MENTION] They used to run the Coastway trains across Brighton without changing, which would have been great for the football specials, but this practice was abandoned a few years ago. It was fine, when things were working well, but any delays on the coastway lines, would impact the Brighton London service, as the trains have to cross over outside Brighton Station. Clearly is it still possible, so maybe a football special service is not an impossible dream and would be better PR for Southern than having several hundred fans queueing in Brighton Station, chanting, "You don't know what you're doing"

 

[Return of the Rev]

The special for QPR fans was an 8 carriage train which left with nobody in the last 4 coaches. Could they not have locked the connecting doors so as to isolate the last four coaches and fill that part up with home fans then stop the train at Haywards Heath. I am sure that it would have been very popular. They could keep the front 4 coaches doors locked to stop oeople getting off that part of the train at HH. Is this possible and legal?

Ridiculous!

 

[BensGrandad]

The special for QPR fans was an 8 carriage train which left with nobody in the last 4 coaches. Could they not have locked the connecting doors so as to isolate the last four coaches and fill that part up with home fans then stop the train at Haywards Heath. I am sure that it would have been very popular. They could keep the front 4 coaches doors locked to stop oeople getting off that part of the train at HH. Is this possible and legal?

Ridiculous!

Why please explain to a non train user other than for football matches, cant afford to use trains.

 

[BensGrandad]

No explanation forthcoming then.

 

[halbpro]

No explanation forthcoming then.

The main reason I can think of is that you'd have to make that call at the station as you don't know how full the train will be till then. This would leave no time for organisation before the train is due to leave, further delaying an already delayed train and slowing down everything else even more. Additionally, stopping the train at HH could have further impacts on London bound trains (stopping a train obviously takes more time than just going through the station).

In my observations as a regular train user it's obvious that trains aren't like buses, where you can easily adjust scheduled or timing. One minor element off can **** whole sections of the network.