I suppose the well-heeled locals will soon be demanding a better rail service....................



Telegraph

Today's Telegraph

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-59690028

(I should have read the previous thread first !)

If I could be so bold as to add to my previous post. I have never seen a station with so many "stop" boards as St Erth. When I saw Photo No 9 I just had to dig out one I took some years ago. 12 coach trains ? - must be left over from days of steam.

9: St Erth.

You can say that again, and again, and.........................

A passing thought......

.....perhaps Premier Inn would like to take over the SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) franchise - I've used them many times for work and leisure and have always found them to be very customer aware.

"We are investigating this incident to learn lessons from what went wrong and improve our processes."

1. Does anyone believe garbage like this ??
2. Perhaps even more worringly..............does anyone within SWR^» (South Western Railway - about), honestly and truthfully, believe that the public will believe garbage like this ?

Totally agree with you there - but many/most/all of the large contractors out there who bid for Government work of all sorts know full well that this procurer never enforces its legal rights.

Trains, aeroplanes, submarines, hospitals, motorways, PPE, rail electrification, etc, etc are procured with the supplier knowing full well that if it doesn't meet the spec then the only way for the customer to get it fixed is for him to cough up more taxpayers' money. Then depending on the end user the money either appears - or doesn't - the rail passenger comes well down that list. So it is highly likely that the IET will limp on for many years to come (except past Dawlish of course)

No one tries that trick on Tesco, John Lewis or M & S - not more than once anyway !

Been there, seen it, done it, had it done to me !!

Not just ordinary bad weather..............it's "climate change", we are repeatedly told. That will be made worse by me driving round more in my Fiesta because the rail service I used more than any other is about to be withdrawn !!

Expecting any sort of change of tack by those who procured the IETs^▸ (Intercity Express Train) is futile. We've had the wrong sort of snow followed now by the wrong sort of wind ...................wrong sort of trains ....Nooooo chance !

Put my daughter back on the SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) Waterloo train (159) from Warminster at 1051 this morning.
Daughter says first 2 coaches were quite busy, rear was quiet. One has to wonder how many more passengers would have been on board had it come through from Bristol rather than from Yeovil. 13 people boarded at Warminster - most with luggage. 

Interesting to note that the following 2 GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) services to Southampton (nowt to PMH today !) were cancelled "due to a planning error" !! Anyone from BoA^» (Bradford-on-Avon - next trains)/Trowbridge heading for Salisbury and a Waterloo "connection" would have had a looooong wait !!! The first service to go to Salisbury from those two towns today departed at nearly 1300 !!!! 

"Cracking service, Gromit"................

Yes, it undoubtedly was for that service................I doubt somehow that it could have been described as that for the trip to PMH.     SAL - 1633: SOU - 1703: FRM - 1727.
I totally agree with your comment about the comfort !!

Just collected my daughter from Warminster station.

Left Aylesford (Kent) 1020.
Left Paddock Wood    1100. (12 min connection)
Left Waterloo            1220. (32 min connection from WAE. WMN^» (Warminster - next trains) train on platform, time to pick up a hot pasty)
Arrive WMN              1411. (train appeared to be around 50% full at WMN !!)

The next time she does that trip she will have a 59 minute (non-) "connection" at Salisbury to factor in. Thanks SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) !!

Just goes to show they're not listening !

"Horses and carriages" ?  Not very green, all that solid and gaseous matter from the animals "exhaust" !