[Travel] Train travel during strike action.

[Leekbrookgull]

With the continued disruption to UK train travel how are NSC users finding their daily travel situation. We have to use AWC and then either G/E or Southern when returning to and from Sussex. When you look online at those operating companies it's only really telling you just keep checking.

 

[timbha]

With the continued disruption to UK train travel how are NSC users finding their daily travel situation. We have to use AWC and then either G/E or Southern when returning to and from Sussex. When you look online at those operating companies it's only really telling you just keep checking.

Precisely. No help at all and confusing messages regarding a strike, an overtime ban, emergency engineering works and anything else to confuse us.

Is my train running? Timetable says yes but has it been updated with the above?Probably not.

How can I find out if my train is running on Sunday?

 

[sparkie]

In my experience of commuting to work within Sussex by rail :

Overtime ban days - no real problem.
RMT strike days - ok in morning, afternoon and early evening but don't leave it late.
Aslef strike days - total shut down.

 

[Springal]

National Rail was pretty good / accurate yesterday and hope it’s the same tomorrow

 

[Perry Milkins]

Agree

 

[A mex eyecan]

starting to get to the stage where it’s not striking, but more like liking a reduced working week

 

[Easy 10]

God bless WFH

(with the cricket)

 

[Carlos BC]

Is there any strike action planned for the home Luton & Wet Spam games?

 

[Bozza]

We simply never consider rail travel as a viable option to get anywhere at any time at all. We use every other transport option available to us.

I imagine this is what the strike folk wanted.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Precisely. No help at all and confusing messages regarding a strike, an overtime ban, emergency engineering works and anything else to confuse us.

Is my train running? Timetable says yes but has it been updated with the above?Probably not.

How can I find out if my train is running on Sunday?

I hate to come over all @jackalbion on you but you need realtimetrains.com

We’re set up in the UK post covid to work from home in the main. The rail unions are therefore targeting leisure time and any national event seems to give rail workers a disproportionate level of sniffles. But, still, when it does work it works well and you can read / work / drink on the journey which you can’t when you’re driving

 

[jackalbion]

Precisely. No help at all and confusing messages regarding a strike, an overtime ban, emergency engineering works and anything else to confuse us.

Is my train running? Timetable says yes but has it been updated with the above?Probably not.

How can I find out if my train is running on Sunday?

I have to be honest, I work in the timetabling department, and I had to ask 4 times what service is running this weekend. I can get into the semantics of why there’s so many different kind of timetables, but I’d be writing a 20,000 word post.

It’s an overtime ban, so it’s basically same service hours, but with a reduced frequency. (1 an hour Littlehampton to Victoria for example) should be able to get anywhere on southern (don’t know what other operators are running).

 

[Greenbag50]

In Paris today at Lopalooza with daughter watching stray kids. Would have got train to Eurostar this morning, but hired a drive next to Morden tube station. Worked a treat and cheaper than train. Allowing people to find alternatives…..

 

[theboybilly]

In Paris today at Lopalooza with daughter watching stray kids. Would have got train to Eurostar this morning, but hired a drive next to Morden tube station. Worked a treat and cheaper than train. Allowing people to find alternatives…..

Anyone??

 

[Greenbag50]

Anyone??

What, don’t like Stray kids?

 

[Easy 10]

What, don’t like Stray kids?

I think he means your post reads like an enigma code.

Are we supposed to take every 5th letter and rearrange it into an anagram to decipher ?