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Title: Another Bad Day For Economy Klaus Post by: Lee 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 Title: Re: Another Bad Day For Economy Klaus Post by: simonw 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! Title: Re: Another Bad Day For Economy Klaus Post by: devon_metro 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? Title: Re: Another Bad Day For Economy Klaus Post by: simonw 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? Title: Re: Another Bad Day For Economy Klaus Post by: devon_metro 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 ______ ^2,205 This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |