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Showing posts with label trains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trains. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Southern Rail Resumes "Full Service"

All very well and good, maybe. However, "full service" is a highly subjective term!

Monday, August 08, 2016

Advice To Southern Rail and The RMT

Grow up and stop inflicting your dispute on the hapless commuters who have to get to work.

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Monday, December 21, 2015

Advice To Southern Trains

People do travel over Christmas you know, the country doesn't grind to a shuddering halt just because you can't be arsed to run a decent service over the Christmas period!

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Train Companies Maintain 100% Punctuality

Kudos to the train companies for maintaining their 100% punctuality record for delivering inflation busting price increases.

Well done lads, keep it up!

Friday, March 08, 2013

Advice To The Management of Brighton Station

Fix the farking ticket machine that has been out of action for the last three weeks!

Monday, January 30, 2012

Question For Train Operating Companies

Given that you already treat your weekday passengers like shit (wrt eg punctuality, overcrowding, on board facilities, prices etc) why do you treat your passengers who travel on Sundays even more abysmally?


Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Great Lies of Today - Train Fare Increases

"Money raised by increased fares helps pay for new trains, faster services and better stations."

ROFLOL!!!

Friday, April 08, 2011

Advice To Southern Region

Please fix the broken toilets, and jammed electric doors on the "Gatwick Express" coaches that you use on the Brighton to London route.

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Bullshitter of The Year

Congratulations to Michael Roberts, CEO of the Association of Train Operating Companies, for winning the 2011 "Bullshitter of The Year" Award only two days into 2011.

Roberts claims that the outrageous rise in train fares will result in "more trains and better services".

ROFLOL!

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Advice To Southern Rail

It would be really nice if you guys fixed the automatic door of the toilet on the train that I had the misfortune to travel on yesterday, so that it actually closes when people are using it.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Rail Upgrades

Promising upgrades in train rolling stock that will not be in situ until 2019 is taking the piss, even by the lousy standards that the long suffering rail traveller has had to endure over the decades.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Advice To Train Companies

Those of you who are thinking of reducing costs, by removing toilets from some of your services, may care to remember that even cattle being transported by rail for slaughter are given straw to shit on.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Advice To Eurostar

Revert to steam trains, they are better able to cope with snow.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Advice To East Croydon Train Station

Turn the volume up on your public address system, it is of little use if people cannot hear it!

Friday, February 06, 2009

Advice To Train Companies

Stop hiring managers who are adept at apologising.

Start hiring managers who are competent, and adept at running an efficient service.

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Advice To Trains Companies

During "bad" weather don't advise your customers to check for the latest train cancellations on your websites, if the websites themselves cannot cope with the demand.

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Snow

Britain has shown the world, yet again, how unprepared it is for adverse weather conditions. Yesterday all London buses, most tube lines, most train services and Gatwick/Heathrow failed to operate.

A remarkable failure given that most of these services (airports excluded) were able run during the war, even at the height of the Blitz.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Advice To Railtrack

A bus service, that is not shown on your timetable, does not constitute a train service!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Question To Southern Railway

What were you thinking when you only provided four carriages for the 17:49 Brighton to Victoria service on 14 November?