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« Reply #106 on: May 14, 2009, 22:14:11 » |
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On the other hand how many different excuses do you think the gateline listen to every day?
Fine - I have no problem with that however as I said before: Passenger turns up no ticket, wants to go through with the alex ferguson excuse - scpetic mode rules Passenger turns up wanting to get to slough, has tickets to slough, just wants to be let onto the other set of platforms where the next slough train leaves from, can prove they have to be in slough that day (and for the sake of a return slough to pad setting that up is hardly worth it) - getting the response "computer says no" does not leave a woolly feeling. It is not helped, and I hate to say this, by the majority of london based station and train crew not having full command of the English language - some of the gate line are bearly understandable and really struggle with regional accents like mine. |
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« Reply #107 on: May 14, 2009, 22:35:56 » |
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On the other hand how many different excuses do you think the gateline listen to every day?
Fine - I have no problem with that however as I said before: Passenger turns up no ticket, wants to go through with the alex ferguson excuse - scpetic mode rules Passenger turns up wanting to get to slough, has tickets to slough, just wants to be let onto the other set of platforms where the next slough train leaves from, can prove they have to be in slough that day (and for the sake of a return slough to pad setting that up is hardly worth it) - getting the response "computer says no" does not leave a woolly feeling. It is not helped, and I hate to say this, by the majority of london based station and train crew not having full command of the English language - some of the gate line are bearly understandable and really struggle with regional accents like mine. violin anyone |
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« Reply #108 on: May 14, 2009, 23:31:39 » |
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On the other hand how many different excuses do you think the gateline listen to every day?
Fine - I have no problem with that however as I said before: Passenger turns up no ticket, wants to go through with the alex ferguson excuse - scpetic mode rules Passenger turns up wanting to get to slough, has tickets to slough, just wants to be let onto the other set of platforms where the next slough train leaves from, can prove they have to be in slough that day (and for the sake of a return slough to pad setting that up is hardly worth it) - getting the response "computer says no" does not leave a woolly feeling. It is not helped, and I hate to say this, by the majority of london based station and train crew not having full command of the English language - some of the gate line are bearly understandable and really struggle with regional accents like mine. violin anyone clarify? |
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« Reply #109 on: May 14, 2009, 23:47:25 » |
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On the other hand how many different excuses do you think the gateline listen to every day?
Fine - I have no problem with that however as I said before: Passenger turns up no ticket, wants to go through with the alex ferguson excuse - scpetic mode rules Passenger turns up wanting to get to slough, has tickets to slough, just wants to be let onto the other set of platforms where the next slough train leaves from, can prove they have to be in slough that day (and for the sake of a return slough to pad setting that up is hardly worth it) - getting the response "computer says no" does not leave a woolly feeling. It is not helped, and I hate to say this, by the majority of london based station and train crew not having full command of the English language - some of the gate line are bearly understandable and really struggle with regional accents like mine. violin anyone clarify? Let me guess - despite the fact I decalred at the time of getting a YP card I was an OU student and despite not making it any secret to anyone who sells me a ticket based on one and despite the fact I make it clear I buy tickets on the trains because the ticket machines will not issue a YP discount on FC‡ - its MY FAULT I can do this and I suspect thinks I should be in court on fraud charges. So he has no sympathy that I was penalty fared due to the attack of the alex fergusons. I am not appealing (even though I think I probably could) because on balance I have benefitted more than not - I was just illustrating a point. Imagine a first time user of FGW▸ was in the situation I found myself in - would they come back again? |
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« Reply #110 on: May 14, 2009, 23:56:01 » |
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A couple of points in 'clarification' from me:
Firstly (and I've mentioned this before), it does make it easier for all of our readers to follow a topic if posters would please use 'reply', rather than 'quote', whenever possible.
Secondly (and I'm rather sorry I have to mention this now), but it is getting slightly tedious for the rest of us, to have to read constant comments and counter-comments between certain members here, when they are posted in topics on the open forum. May I remind everyone that there is our 'frequent posters club', where established members may continue to discuss their differences, away from the public eye - if they feel the need to do so?
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« Reply #112 on: May 15, 2009, 02:06:10 » |
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« Reply #113 on: May 15, 2009, 06:01:46 » |
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« Reply #114 on: May 16, 2009, 09:10:09 » |
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Thank you for cooling it / bringing posts back within our posting policy and all the various legal limits that there are on posts, etc. I have restored the original thread for referenece too, minus the posts that could have go me (as admin) into trouble once I became aware of their presence. Enough has been said on the subject ... except that if warnings about posting beyond board / legal limits have been p.m.d to several people, and if further postings beyond the limits occur I'll have to go a step or two further.
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« Reply #115 on: May 19, 2009, 11:03:52 » |
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If you had just had let through and they had stepped up that set for another service and you had left early on it or missed your train because it was leaving from a different platform you would then be complaining that the man on the barriers shouldnt have let you through or that he should have come down to the train personally and told you that things had changed.
Why dont you wait like 99.9999999999% of the other customers who wait until the train is anounced and then board.
Nearly fell a cropper last night - but application of common sense saved me. Exeter train in on Plat 10, Empty stock rolls in on 9 and worcester CH are on the platform. Get on - obviously cant hear the announcements anymore so did not hear the announcement that this was the Bristol train. Common sense kicked in when (1) I did not see any of the regulars who are normally in my carriage and (2) I saw the two worcester CH leaving for platforms elsewhere. Tracked down an unlabelled HST▸ on platform 3 - was the only other possibility by this time unless the 1821 was going to be delayed - sure enough Hereford was announce a couple of minutes later. Point is, if I'd been carried well on my way to Bristol, I could hardly have complained. |
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« Reply #116 on: May 19, 2009, 13:07:09 » |
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This sounds like a last minute swap which may well have been connected with the 17:00 Paddington-Bristol train failing just outside platform 4 at Reading. It didn't move for about 80 minutes and left platform 4 unavailable for use for over an hour and a half. Anyone who knows Reading will know what the effect of a through platform out of use for the peak hours has - and despite some great work from the signallers and announcers, there were delays quickly building up to trains in both directions.
The revamped Reading should be able to cope with a situation like this much better with its additional through platforms.
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« Reply #117 on: May 19, 2009, 13:19:33 » |
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This sounds like a last minute swap which may well have been connected with the 17:00 Paddington-Bristol train failing just outside platform 4 at Reading. It didn't move for about 80 minutes and left platform 4 unavailable for use for over an hour and a half. Anyone who knows Reading will know what the effect of a through platform out of use for the peak hours has - and despite some great work from the signallers and announcers, there were delays quickly building up to trains in both directions.
The revamped Reading should be able to cope with a situation like this much better with its additional through platforms.
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« Reply #118 on: May 19, 2009, 14:47:12 » |
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thats a good point at busy stations is the infor system goes down... on the hst's there is no destination display like the voyagers and they nolonger use the printed list of stops for the windows
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« Reply #119 on: May 19, 2009, 15:14:15 » |
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thats a good point at busy stations is the infor system goes down... on the hst's there is no destination display like the voyagers and they nolonger use the printed list of stops for the windows
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