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People piss me off.
Especially when I was later than that this morning cause some stupid cunt at the gas board has started digging up our shiny new dual carriageway.
As i do not have a car, i travel by trains alot of the time! Sometimes they are cheaper and more convient than a car. But other times they are beyond incompetant.
The other week travelling between Manchester and Norwich our central train service stopped at Nottingham. They realised they had no driver or conductor to continue the driver. But no worries, a bus will be here shortly - it never turned up.
Instead of getting into Norwich at half 8, i got into Norwich at 11.45pm.
Better not get me started :crazyeyes
it probly costs a lot to run a train though, a hell of a lot
There's the road tax, the insurance, and also the whopping great chunk of income tax taken to pay for all these lovely roads. And then there's the environmental cost of all the car fumes, and the fumes and pollution created in making the road, and the damage to the environment putting tarmac though fields creates.
Cars are so much more expensive than trains. Compare a main line, which is about 25 feet wide, to the eight-lane motorways which snake around the country.
Last week I did a bit of travelling about, and a car would've been so much more useful (especially when the bus stop/train station are the other side of town). My soon-to-expire railcard made it not too expensive (£55 for Leeds -> Southampton), but 80 quid plus without one.
One or two other people would've justified the cost (maybe not the environmental one, and a tax break is a pipedream) of a car (maybe not if hiring!), even with the high petrol prices. But you pay the tax/insurance regardless of how much you use it, so the more you use it, the cheaper it becomes.
Commuting wise, it's public transport all the way for me. No faffing with parking of a morning, and I can have a drink after work if I want. But that's only because I work in a city centre.
If I didn't then it'd be a nightmare.
Sounds like a job for "Thomas The Tank Engine"
The entire train system in this country is a bit of a shambles.
The pricing structure is messy too and I've yet to see many journeys that if there's 2 or more people going isn't cheaper by car (assuming petrol is the only consideration)
Book in advance and travel when nobody else wants to, and you pay pence. Travel on the day when everyone else wants to and you pay a fortune.
recently been to italy and the trains were on time mainly but there system is fair more complicated because you had to buy tickets depending on time and different compaines had different rules so i prefere UK and some of the trains were ancient!
three days ago my trains from devon to penrith, got off at lancaster to change to get to penrith, but the train going to penrith was delayed by an hour to they told me to get back on the train and they specially stopped off in penrith so i could get off! and i was the only one to get off! thats special
The joys of the 'Special stop order' - Can be very useful sometimes!
As for anyone who says trains are ridiculously expensive - I'm off to London tommorow for £17 return. Around 4p per mile. You probably couldn't park your car in London for 3 days for less than that.