Recent content by Spet0789

I need to travel from London to Cardiff to arrive by midday on Sunday 7th April. I was planning to travel the day before but that is a strike day. So I am considering travelling up first thing in Sunday. Can I please ask forum members what the skeleton service on strike days looks like, and...

Which is quite nice and usually very few people in there.

Why not take it out of the hands of the railway altogether and do as they do on Japanese trains where the trolley service is provided by independents?

That’s the off peak service. Also, I only (personally) care about journey times from Harlow Town to London so stops further up the line don’t make any difference to me.

This is good news. Hopefully the journey times will also revert to pre-Covid levels. In the peaks, Harlow Town used to have 2x32 min services to LST, 2x38 and 2x40. Now it’s 4x40. I get why Covid and WFH has reduced frequencies but not how it’s slowed the trains down!

Thanks for the info but that makes no sense to me. I get that if you usually start at 10pm and that falls on a strike day, you don’t start work at 10pm. But start at 00.01.

Can anyone explain why Greater Anglia’s WAML service on Friday starts so late? I would expect that on Wednesday night trains arrived back at depots in the usual way and then a handful of trains provided the skeleton service today before presumably ending up back where they would normally be...

This strike was on a Saturday. If they can provide RRB to cover engineering works, why not strikes? It wouldn’t constitute strike-breaking… you’re not bringing in bus drivers to drive trains. Now there’s an idea… surely someone who can manage faster-slower AND lefty-righty can manage just...

Out of interest, why not? Thinking of today’s Greater Anglia strike, where only drivers have walked out, leaving stations staffed.

Lies, damned lies and so on. Under the cover of Covid, Greater Anglia seem to have been able to massively pad the timetables at least on the Stansted Express. About 10% slower than it used to be.

More extensive use of simulators for training. No need to wait for rolling stock to show up to train drivers.

I still don’t get why the trains are now so slow. Lower frequencies I understand but not lower frequencies and slower journey times.

Anyone know the answer to this? Why are the WA Cambridge and Stansted weekday peak services BOTH slow and less frequent? Surely if they dial the frequency back and expect shorter dwell times than usual due to light usage they should be able to hit the faster weekend / off peak timings? Looks...

A question for those who know the WAML well… why are the Stansted and Cambridge services running so slowly at peak times? As an example, pre-Covid weekend trains from Harlow Town to Liverpool Street generally were timed at just above 30 mins. Now they are timed for 40 minutes. Seems like the...

I thought most TOCs didn’t allow e-Scooters on trains at all?