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Author Topic: Does the 8.51am from Maidenhead to Paddington ever arrive on time?  (Read 23561 times)
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« Reply #60 on: November 30, 2007, 17:46:52 »

20% punctuality rate this week!
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« Reply #61 on: November 30, 2007, 17:58:24 »

Well it was 3 minutes early today...
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« Reply #62 on: December 01, 2007, 22:59:39 »

The only time this week though! Sad state of affairs!
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« Reply #63 on: December 03, 2007, 19:16:17 »

2 early today  Grin
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« Reply #64 on: December 05, 2007, 22:29:01 »

Yep.. 2 early Monday, 16 late Tuesday, 30 late Wednesday (so 44 minutes of my time so far this week!)

Today (wednesday) was such a total disgrace it needs a mention.. Not the late running trains bit though, it was the total lack of information which was a disgrace..

I was waiting for the 8.51.. It was due in about 9.10ish (time kept changing). The Customer services representative on the platform only had the information that was available to the rest of us (the arrival/departure boards) so was no help.. In the end, the 8.51 was swapped from platform 4 (it's normal platform) to platform 2. So off I went, on my own at first (as I found out when I got to platform 2), as no one else had noticed. No announcements were made the whole time I was at the station (about 20 minutes).. No one bothered to announce that the platform had changed. The customer service representative just stood there (although since her job appears to be reading the indicator boards and not much else, she must have noticed). Gradually a few other people noticed and joined me on platform 2.. Eventually, as the train pulled in, everyone else spotted it and had to sprint down the steps, under the platforms, and back up to platform 2. Whether or not they made it on to the train before we left, I don't know...

This lack of information makes inevitable delays even worse.. No one knew why the trains were late, and no one was telling us anything.
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« Reply #65 on: December 06, 2007, 16:41:53 »

1 late today
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« Reply #66 on: December 07, 2007, 07:33:10 »

And cancelled today! so 40% punctuality again this week!!

Well, one thing we can say for sure is that this train will never be late again as it's never going to run again..  Lets hope my new later train is on time more often than the 8.51 was.. I'm not optimisitic...
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