Another Bad Day For Economy Klaus

Lee

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Another Bad Day For Economy Klaus

« on: October 17, 2007, 16:16:54 »

EK^▸ has a "rubbish Monday" and spots Alison Forster (link below.)
http://firstlatewestern.blogspot.com/2007/10/just-another-rubbish-monday-on-first.html


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simonw

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Re: Another Bad Day For Economy Klaus

« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2007, 21:23:36 »

Monday and tuesday weren't too good for BPW^» -PAD^» journeys either.

One of the four journeys was ok, a few minutes late, the other three journeys combined to delay passengers by 75 minutes.

I was under the impression that FGW^▸ was trying to improve things, but two train failures in success days is not good!


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devon_metro

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Re: Another Bad Day For Economy Klaus

« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2007, 16:32:28 »

Train failures aren't planned events though.

They could always not send the stock out and cancel a few trains?


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simonw

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Re: Another Bad Day For Economy Klaus

« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2007, 18:40:45 »

Train failures are never planned, well I hope not!

However, good maintenance regimes will minimise failures! FGW^▸ has spent a lot of money replacing all engines, so to suffer to failures that caused delays on successive days is not good, and I should be able to expect FGW to do better, or should I?

Is it right that FGW should collect 400x^100=^40K(VERY APPROXIMATE GUESS) for a typical HST^▸ return journey, and those customers to have to suffer delays due to train failures?


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devon_metro

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Re: Another Bad Day For Economy Klaus

« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2007, 18:53:04 »

Figure may be slightly lower as a lot of people travel on Advance purchase tickets although if everybody was on full whack tickets they would be rolling in it.

Compare that to local:

^15 (maybe slightly less)
x 147
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^2,205


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