Re: Planning Rail Routes


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Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on November 29, 2005 at 09:21:39 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.

In Reply to: Re: Planning Rail Routes posted by Jock on November 29, 2005 at 04:25:51:

I think that there is a lot of exaggeration about rail reliability in the past and unreliability now. These days they seem normally to arrive at this most easterly point of the UK (Lowestoft) at the specified times - and we get through trains to and from London again today, taken off by BR 20 years ago.

A couple of years ago we were on a different privatised line (paying as usual the cheapest possible fare) travelling to catch the Eurostar in London with ultimate destination Barcelona. We learned that the train would not go through to London because of the rebuilding of St Pancras and that we would have to change to a different Company's train. I explained to a railwayman that I was afraid that this would cause us to miss the Eurostar. When the train duly terminated we were located on the crowded platform, ushered to a first class compartment in the connecting train, and met in London where there was a waiting taxi paid for by the Company. We easily caught the Eurostar, but if we had missed it reservations had been made for us on the next one.

This sounds like the sort of thing that could have been done by the old LNWR but I don't think that it would have been BR's standard of service.


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