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Got caught doing the old sitting in FC on overcrowded train trick
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Don't you just hate First Capital Connect? They always overbook their trains. Why don't they invest in newer, larger trains that can hold all of their passengers or just stop overbooking their trains? It really irritates me when you are crammed into a carriage, it can't be in line with their Health and Safety terms surely.
Perhaps I'm just turning into a commudgeon!
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It really irritates me when you are crammed into a carriage, it can't be in line with their Health and Safety terms surely.
Answered here, post #24Go back to British Rail that's what I say!!
Never going to happen, the wage costs of the staff alone would scare any Government, without the thought of militant unions bullying the Government every year for better terms and conditions or pay rises.Coming back, we go to our reserved seats only to find a girl sitting there - I gave her a Paddington Bear stare and she sheepishly walked away. Actually, people shouldn't HAVE to make a seat reservation, the seats we had reserved for the return journey weren't even together, then as it was so quiet, we found 2 seats together just 2 rows away - how does the seat reservation system work there?!!!! Then I was telling people - no, you CAN sit there they were our seats!!!! Ridiculous.
Just [STRIKE]chancers[/STRIKE] seasoned commuters, who travel every working day, they know where to stand on the platform for the best chance of a seat and will sit in a reserved seat on the off chance the person with the reservation doesn't turn up.
Understandable, nothing more annoying than paying for a train fare and having to stand for a considerable time.Sorry, that was a bit of a rant
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They should put more carriages on when there is likely to be a lot of people travelling, really.
The number of carriages is limited by the length of the platform. What would happen if the length of the platform can take, say, 8 carriages and they hook up, say, 9, 10, 11 or 12 carriages? Health and safety and plain old common sense tells us that that is recipe for a very nasty accident.0 -
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Livingthedream wrote: »Would love to help, but making statements like that, to me seems the work of a troll after an outrage reaction.
Good luck with your appeal.
It is not trolling. If you going to be rigid about the point then you have to concede that a train with the density of a holocaust train is acceptable. You can't say "they only have to get you from a to b and to hell with comfort" and then say "well obviously the level of comfort can't be that bad, that's just ridiculous!".0 -
pinkteapot wrote: »I'm sure they'll be devastated. Especially given that the ticket inspector was correctly doing his job and you spend 20 minutes arguing with him.
I'm sure they won't be. However it is my right to choose to use their service or not. And i will enact that right and they will lose out.
I don't run out of a meeting with one of my client the second the clock hits 5:30 shouting no no no, it's all in the contract i can leave right now. Why don't i do this? Because my client would simply stop using my services and start using a competitor.
I will simply apply this logic to them.0 -
Running_On_Empty wrote: »They should put more carriages on when there is likely to be a lot of people travelling, really.
The number of carriages is limited by the length of the platform. What would happen if the length of the platform can take, say, 8 carriages and they hook up, say, 9, 10, 11 or 12 carriages? Health and safety and plain old common sense tells us that that is recipe for a very nasty accident.
You are told to go to carriage near the front of the train to get off, where there is plenty of platform. Also when we were on a different train when we got off at a local, very small, station, we were told this as well, ie not to get off where there is no platform.0 -
If you going to be rigid about the point then you have to concede that a train with the density of a holocaust train is acceptable. You can't say "they only have to get you from a to b and to hell with comfort" and then say "well obviously the level of comfort can't be that bad, that's just ridiculous!".
What an offensive comparison that is... you should be ashamed of yourself.:hello:0 -
###############........ i thought the guy showed a disgusting lack of awareness.......
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