MSE Blog: My rail fare miscarriage of justice

Moneyer

If the tickets were discounted, people on a tight budget would deliberately choose to travel when engineering is in progress, making the railway busier at the worst possible time for all concerned….

Altarf

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

Put your reading glasses on. The journey posed is for a weekend, and there is engineering work on.

They do not do engineering work during the week!

Try reading what you write.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

Trains are good or transporting people en mass to major conurbations for work. Outside of 7 to 9 and 4 to 6 on weekdays, forget the service!

Perhaps if you explained that in your world anytime "Outside of 7 to 9 and 4 to 6 on weekdays" is considered the weekend, then you may make more sense to normal people who don't think that 2pm on a Tuesday afternoon is the weekend.

redux

I watched an item on the telly about the railway at Dawlish being repaired, which will be back in service by this weekend.

The whinge in the blog is indeed a injustice - try having some sympathy for would be rail travellers who have been worse off for a lot longer, and stop being so self-indulgent.

Better still - go away and read all the relevant MSE aricles about knowing your rights. Engineering works timetables are published well in advance.