What was the last train you went on??

[charlierc]

Frequent commute for work experience at the end of October/start of November:
08:27 Bletchley-London Euston 350
Euston-Tottenham Court Road Northern Line
London Euston-Bletchley return 350 (321 on my last day)

[LeeEAS]

Thursday 11th November 2010

317663 Cheshunt - Liverpool St
xxxx Liverpool St to Bank (Central Line)
67504 Bank - Waterloo (Waterloo & City line)
60163 'Tornado' London Waterloo - Norwich (including a stop on Cremorne Bridge Bridge for the 2 minute silence, then via North London Line, Cheshunt, and Ely. Heads out most of the way)
60163 'Tornado' Norwich - Broxbourne (First Class)
317887 Broxbourne - Cheshunt

Ha beat that.

[Esurient]

08:21 East Coast to York
17:23 East Coast to Peterborough..

[TransportSteve]

Yesterday.

A poky 2 car Class 156 on the 12.57 Norwich to Sheffield, should normally run to Liverpool Lime St, but, due to snow and engineering works terminated in Sheffield.
The train was virtually empty, very dirty inside and out, and the heating was on full blast, of course, and only 1 ticket inspection between Norwich and Nottingham. We did arrive in Nottingham to time, but, only after at least 3 signal stops between Grantham and Nottingham, don't know why, there was nothing in front of us......

Very poor service standard by East Midlands Trains, must do better.....

Cheerz. Transport Steve.

[wertyuv]

Yesterday
221 from Bristol Temple Meads to Birmingham New Street and back. I don't intend to use XC for a while after the experience I had with them yesterday....

[oldrocker]

Yesterday
221 from Bristol Temple Meads to Birmingham New Street and back. I don't intend to use XC for a while after the experience I had with them yesterday....

Do tell !

[wertyuv]

Serious overcrowding. I had a seat on the train going up, but watched people standing around the doors between Bristol Parkway and Birmingham New Street, I had the displeasure of sitting on my backpack on the returning journey. Silly XC for putting 5 car trains on services going across the country (especially the Aberdeen-Penzance service). I wrote an email of complaint to customer services telling them its a bad idea to put 4-5 car voyagers on such services. No idea what kind of reply I'm going to get.

[oldrocker]

I don't think they have much else do they?

These trips used to be an HST working but that's off the menu now. . . .

Actually, I have a dream. One day I am going to to do Aberdeen to Penzance in one go, first class. Hotel in Aberdeen one night, hotel Penzance the next.

[wertyuv]

Actually, I have a dream. One day I am going to to do Aberdeen to Penzance in one go, first class. Hotel in Aberdeen one night, hotel Penzance the next.

I am planning to do that trip during the summer. Got the budget and trains I want to take planned out. Just need the money now

[96tommy]

I went to London today to go to Paddington and St Pancras

08:00 York - London Kings Cross (Class 91)
14:30 London Kings Cross - York (Class 91)

[gswindale]

Serious overcrowding. I had a seat on the train going up, but watched people standing around the doors between Bristol Parkway and Birmingham New Street, I had the displeasure of sitting on my backpack on the returning journey. Silly XC for putting 5 car trains on services going across the country (especially the Aberdeen-Penzance service). I wrote an email of complaint to customer services telling them its a bad idea to put 4-5 car voyagers on such services. No idea what kind of reply I'm going to get.

Good to see somethings haven't changed - I had to sit on my backpack on an old Virgin XC service from Bristol - Exeter back in 2000 on a HST before the Voyagers had been introduced.

If you want silly for overcrowding; try pretty much any SWT service coming in to/out of Waterloo at Rush-hour. Not a lot they can do about it though without demolishing half the routes and starting again with improved pathing & longer trains.

[tialho]

06:58 Maidenhead-Reading
07:41 Reading-Cardiff Central
09:48 Cardiff Central-Hengoed

11:00 Job interview! (2nd interview for the position at the Hengoed site after initial interview at the company's HQ in London last week - should know the outcome in the next couple of days)

13:55 Hengoed-Cardiff Central
14:55 Cardiff Central-Reading
16:48 Reading-Maidenhead

Tim

[gswindale]

Hope the interview went well for you - that's going to be some commute on a daily basis though! Bracknell - Reading was bad enough for me

[alexnick]

29th Jan

Leicester North - Loughborough Central: K4 + Mk1s
Loughborough - St. Pancras: 222 Meridian
Kings X St. Pancras LU - Oxford Circus LU: New Victoria Line Stock
Oxford Circus LU - Waterloo LU: 1967 Stock
Waterloo - Godalming: 450

AN

[LeeEAS]

317892 Cheshunt - Stratford
315848 Stratford - Liverpool St
6156 Liverpool St - Euston Square
90047 10:43 London Euston - Birmingham New Street
150010 12:30 Birmingham Moor Street - Stratford-upon-Avon
150010 13:27 Stratford-upon-Avon - Birmingham Moor Street
90047 16:30 Birmingham New Street - London Euston
5524 Euston Square - Liverpool St
317512 Liverpool St - Broxbourne (During peak hours, some Cambridge trains don't stop at Cheshunt, so I double back on myself)
317885 Broxbourne - Cheshunt

Two Stratfords in one day