Your Last Train Journey?

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1N75 into 1N25 - the 07:45 Clacton to London Liverpool Street service
Class 360 x 1 until Colchester then joined to another unit
Not too crowded
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Destination: Lancaster
From: Preston
Company: Virgin
Train Class: Pendolino (390)
Details: Stank like a toilet and tiny little windows, but I was ill so I might be biased this time - I don't normally mind them :-)
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Destination: East Croydon
From: London Victoria
Company: Southern
Train Class: Class 377
Details: Snow delayed service going somewhere further south at about ten to midnight last night, had to run to the platform as it was announced at the last minute (the train arrived late into Victoria) then sat next to some deeply pissed people on their way home from partying as the train ran gradually slower and slower through the blizzard. But it got through, at least to my destination, East Croydon.
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Destination: Richmond Hill GO Station
From: Toronto Union Station
Company: GO Transit
Details: Pretty smooth, the train ride was pretty scenic... But the bus ride afterwards was terrible. Women kept on complaining on the traffic
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From: Sierra Madre Villa
To: Little Tokyo (1st); Atlantic Ave. (2nd)
Company: Metro Rail (LACMTA)
Tram Models: Siemens P2000 (Sierra Madre - Union Station); AnsaldoBreda P2550 (Union Station - Atlantic Ave.)
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This was yesterday...
From: Huddersfield
To: Stocksmoor
Stock: 3-car 144
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1419 service after work closed early due to snow. Sat on the unit and an announcement was made saying delay due to staff shortage caused by snow. Finally left 25mins late, conductor makes announcement apologising for delay due to "internal client error" (?). Got into Stocksmoor where i'd parked, and took 50mins to dig the car out of the snow!
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Destination: London Euston
From: Birmingham New Street
Company: Virgin Trains
Train Class: Class 221, 4-coach. (Super Voyager)

Details: Booked Bendydildo didn't arrive into Euston until 1 minute before the scheduled departure time, so rather than delaying for the train for half an hour or so, they dragged a 4-coach Super Voyager out of nowhere and destined it for Birmingham instead. Of course huge confusion since Pendolino seat reservations don't transfer onto a Voyager, but everyone got a seat (just...). Better a train be subsituted and arrive only 13 minutes late into Birmingham, than a cancellation - kudos to Virgin Trains when several of their Pendos are down due to the snow!
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JamieLei wrote:kudos to Virgin Trains when several of their Pendos are down due to the snow!
Again. They never learn.
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Dave Worley wrote:
JamieLei wrote:kudos to Virgin Trains when several of their Pendos are down due to the snow!
Again. They never learn.
To be fair, we get about 3 days of snow a year. The Eurostars are faring far worse...
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Been a bit of a PR oopsing for Eurostar...
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Kevo00 wrote:Been a bit of a PR oopsing for Eurostar...
Particularly on the French side where the staff have apparently been feigning all knowledge of the English language to avoid helping stranded travellers :(
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The problem with Eurostar afaik is that the French staff are out of the control of the UK company, because the French part of Eurostar is separate, being a subsidiary of SNCF (same with the Belgian part, which is part of NMBS/SNCB). So those staff are unlikely ever to be disciplined for their stupidity...

Would love to know if the TGVs that the Eurostars are related to have been having any similar problems...
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Kevo00 wrote:Would love to know if the TGVs that the Eurostars are related to have been having any similar problems...
Interesting - researching into it atm. There have been TGV problems due to bad weather - currently trying to find out more.

http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2 ... _3224.html
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JamieLei wrote:
Kevo00 wrote:Been a bit of a PR oopsing for Eurostar...
Particularly on the French side where the staff have apparently been feigning all knowledge of the English language to avoid helping stranded travellers :(

Well, they are French staff! Reminds me of the greatest comedy sketch show ever (or at least since Python): Big Train!
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JamieLei wrote:
Dave Worley wrote:
JamieLei wrote:kudos to Virgin Trains when several of their Pendos are down due to the snow!
Again. They never learn.
To be fair, we get about 3 days of snow a year. The Eurostars are faring far worse...
Brilliant fun to be had when you realise certain Pendos are fitted with Eurostar/TGV panto equipment specially rebuilt for the British gauge/voltage/etc.

These were fitted because of the snow last year. Happy days!
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Kevo00 wrote:Would love to know if the TGVs that the Eurostars are related to have been having any similar problems...
Probably not because they don't suffer the sudden temperature changes experience when exiting the Chunnel.
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I am currently sitting on the 20:40 East Coast - Leeds to London King's Cross, waiting for departure on the final leg of my journey back to Peterborough for Christmas and am making full use of their wifi.
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Ah, 1A48, due Peterborough 22.14. Rapidly approaching Outwood, bout 5 or so mins from Wakey Westgate.
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Badger wrote:Ah, 1A48, due Peterborough 22.14. Rapidly approaching Outwood, bout 5 or so mins from Wakey Westgate.
1 Alpha 48... Are you using CCLDB? How have you managed to circumnavigate the fact they've changed the username/pass as I can't use it anymore.
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Dave Worley wrote:
Badger wrote:Ah, 1A48, due Peterborough 22.14. Rapidly approaching Outwood, bout 5 or so mins from Wakey Westgate.
1 Alpha 48... Are you using CCLDB? How have you managed to circumnavigate the fact they've changed the username/pass as I can't use it anymore.
I thought Badger worked for the railways and thus had legitimate use of CCLDB, unlike the rest of us. Plus TOCs such as Virgin Trains got charged per use of CCLDB (but apparently London Midland paid for unlimited access or something..)
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