moving house travel and school ?

WillowCat

My mum moved when I was 13, and although I initially started at another school, I hated it so much (have aspergers so new situations are very difficult) that I refused to continue after 3 weeks.

I ended up back at my old school, it was about an hour and a half journey in total - 1 mile walk to train station, had to change trains in the morning though there was a direct train in the afternoon, then a bus plus walk, or if I was feeling fit I could walk all the way from the station, about 2 1/2 miles.

It was the best thing she did for me, and I never remember the journey being a problem. We didn't have phones in those days either.

Owain_Moneysaver

londonirish wrote: »

the commute will be 26 minutes. when I say get in the wrong comartment, the train that she will get splits up half way throgh the journey, you have to check the screen to see which coaches to get in , first 4 or last 4, it changes too.

If she finds herself in the wrong compartment and has overtravelled she must speak to the guard/conductor who can endorse her ticket as having over-travelled and work out her next connection back to where she should be.

Likewise if she loses her ticket, the guard will make a report of irregular travel and you will receive the bill later (with a penalty fare if you are in a PF area).

Guards aren't allowed to put people off at unstaffed stations, so she shouldn't be stranded anywhere.

Savvy_Sue

as for getting on the wrong bit of the train, nothing like doing it once to concentrate the mind!

My nephew got a non-stopping train by mistake once on his way home from school, ended up a loooong way from home, but like I said, he only did it once! And he got home safely and had the wit to phone his mum and say what he'd done.

Spendless

Teaching someone how to read the board at the platform is a useful task. My SIL once got on a train at York that didn't stop till somewhere like Peterborough (we live in Yorkshire) cos 'it was at the platform where she always catches the train'. Indeed, but you were coming home at a different time than usual, mid afternoon instead of your 5pm finish.

ellay864

I agree that at her age there's no reason she shouldn't get a train. I know of many kids locally who have to get a train to their high school so have done so from the age of 11. I think also that when you're ued to doing things with a child there is a temptation to think you need to be there and that they'll not manage without you. I'm not an overly worrying sort but DS1 was (and in some ways still is!!) a head in the clouds type, he's just not on this planet half the time. If we walked into town he would just step off a kerb if I didnt haul him back, he'd not pay attention to things and I did wonder what the hell he'd be like when he started walking to high school alone. But without me there he did just use his own eyes and even brain lol
I'm sure she'll be fine, she wants to be doing it, she's not fazed by the idea - if she has to do it she just will