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New Years Eve.
Citizen_Agfa
Posts: 1 Newbie
in Motoring
I got this from Paul Waugh's (Evening Standard) blog:
As for those of you hoping to attend New Year's Eve celebrations in London this year, I've got one final titbit that may be useful.
Mayor Boris (aka Scrooge, according to WillStraw at LeftFootForward) has cancelled the £100k funding for free overland trains home in the early hours of Jan 1.
But I understand from a top railway source that the Train Operating Companies are actually just bluffing on this one. Although they won't get paid for free travel and have said everyone should carry a ticket, that simply won't be the case on the night.
The train firms are expecting hundreds of thousands of drunken revellers and are not actually going to bar them from travel. At stations including Waterloo, Charing Cross, Victoria, Liverpool Street and Paddington, they will keep the train gates open and allow free travel after midnight simply because they don't want any aggro. "They have no intention of trying to sell tickets on New Year's Eve," my source says.
Now, of course, the train firms don't want people to actually know this in advance - it undermines their £100k subisidy and prevents people from buying return tickets on New Year's Eve. But if you intend to be one of the merry crowd, I thought you should know..
Happy Christmas!
Happy New Year!
As for those of you hoping to attend New Year's Eve celebrations in London this year, I've got one final titbit that may be useful.
Mayor Boris (aka Scrooge, according to WillStraw at LeftFootForward) has cancelled the £100k funding for free overland trains home in the early hours of Jan 1.
But I understand from a top railway source that the Train Operating Companies are actually just bluffing on this one. Although they won't get paid for free travel and have said everyone should carry a ticket, that simply won't be the case on the night.
The train firms are expecting hundreds of thousands of drunken revellers and are not actually going to bar them from travel. At stations including Waterloo, Charing Cross, Victoria, Liverpool Street and Paddington, they will keep the train gates open and allow free travel after midnight simply because they don't want any aggro. "They have no intention of trying to sell tickets on New Year's Eve," my source says.
Now, of course, the train firms don't want people to actually know this in advance - it undermines their £100k subisidy and prevents people from buying return tickets on New Year's Eve. But if you intend to be one of the merry crowd, I thought you should know..
Happy Christmas!
Happy New Year!
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