Recent content by al78

I had a return ticket for Horsham to St Pancras.

Ok, so the issue is travelling through London up to London Bridge, and if I had first cycled to London Bridge there wouldn't have been a problem.

I got back from Inverness on the sleeper this morning around 8:45am with a bicycle and walked to St Pancras to get a Thameslink train to Horsham. I was prevented from getting to the platform (A) by a member of staff at the barrier, who said I was not allowed to travel with a bicycle until 10am...

Just when May was turning out to be a fairly reasonable Spring month, another slow moving low pressure system comes along to generate some utter garbage weather. I understand some places had quite a lot of rain recently. I am in the highlands of Scotland and whilst the weather has flipped from...

Logically speaking, if the service is poor then it is correct to call it out, whether the OP has attempted to evade the fare is irrelevant. Claiming his assertion about the poor service is wrong just because he tried to dodge the fare is about as logical as claiming parents shouldn't discipline...

I do this as well. I do not trust my phone to reliably pick up a signal when necessary so I can access an e-ticket in my e-mail inbox. That is possibly an issue with contract rather than the phone itself, but even so, I feel more comfortable traveling with a physical version of a ticket. I also...

I have not experienced anything that bad and I use Thameslink twice a week to get to Farringdon, however, faults seem to be common. Mostly problems with the signalling system but the occasional fault with a train happens as well. I've been lucky so far that these have only rarely affected my...

I think I can see what happened and it reads like doc7austin was in the same car as I was last Friday/Saturday. I'm guessing what happened is he came out of his cabin to use a toilet. The toilets in his car were out of order so he continued walking into the next car which happened to be the...

As an introduction and to put things into context, particularly if there has been significant/interesting weather in places. 1716202054 I don't agree and the stats for car ownership don't support your assertions...

There is a Charleston in South Carolina which is what you may be thinking of.

No, it is primarily due to house-building over the years so more and more people have moved here, being on the edge of what a lot of people would class as a reasonable commute to London. The road network has not expanded (because it can't) hence frequent traffic congestion, especially on Fridays...

The point is some of these hotspots are hotspots because they have been overhyped and they draw people for that reason, whereas there are better places to visit that are far less well promoted. Snowdon summit is a good example. Likely was once a beautiful viewpoint but has been trashed by tacky...

I have an NHS dentist, have had one since I moved to Horsham nearly 22 years ago.

You're either with us or against us. It is possible to be largely supportive of a category of people but object to their actions in a minority of situations. Supporting someone 95% of the time and disagreeing 5% of the time does not equate to being anti-that person. Why the binary thinking?

The attitude that unless you are an authority in a subject you cannot have an opinion on it is widespread and IMO toxic at its worst. It smacks of bullying in an attempt to silence criticism of crapness, so those with the power/responsibility can avoid being called out and don't have to bother...