F*cking nightmare of a bastard commute
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Yeah, I was 10 minutes late, so basically missed the intros to people I already know.Very good. Complete nonsense though; looks like CDG is screwed up by the weather as well as Eurostar.
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kabbes did well, he'd probably have been even more delayed if he'd flown
I have to go to Paris regularly at the mo. Wouldn’t dream of taking anything but the train.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Yeah, he could have got there on time if he'd got the flight that left Gatwick at 0750 instead of the train that left St Pancras at 1042.
As far as I can see, of the 4 flights in each direction between Gatwick and CDG, 50% of them were delayed today.
Interesting there's only 4 flights per day. Presumably because only complete lunatics fly between London and Paris.
I don’t even go from St Pancras — Ebbesfleet is much nearer. I can arrive about 15 mins before the train leaves if I really want.
And when I get to Gare De Nord, I can walk to where I’m going.
Taking the plane seems like lunacy by comparison!
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Tbf we issue probably 50 Eurostar tickets for every flight ticket to Brussels or Paris and I am a Carte Blanche member. However to get an early train from St Pancras means us staying overnight in London or schlepping to Ebbsfleet and leaving our car, which is no good if just one of us is traveling.
Plus the food in standard premier has gone to shit and it seems very vulnerable to weather, trackside fires, trespassers and so on.
Next month I need to take BB1 to the south of the Paris to be there at 11am and be back home by 8pm, flying from Heathrow does work best for that, much cheaper than Eurostar too. And on that, if you want to get to Paris in the next 24 hours Eurostar only offers full fare tickets, (>£300 in standard class), Vueling normally has space from Gatwick for under £80 each way, which seems to be why they operate on that route.
Ebbesfleet is an hour’s drive away and there’s a tonne of parking. That’s easy, man. I can leave home at 9 GMT with plenty of time to spare and still be in the Paris office by 1 GMT (delays notwithstanding). Good luck doing that by plane.
(And I don’t care about costs because I’m not paying anyway!)
Food wise, I pick up something from the M&S in the station to eat en route. Much better than messing around in the train. It’s not the best but it’s alright for a working day lunch.
Train >>>> plane for half-day hops.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
We only have the one car, so if it is just me going that means Frau Bahn is carless if I were to leave it at Ebbsfleet.
We're flying from T5 at 0720, car will collect us at 0600, then direct RER from Charles Dr Gaulle to Denfert Rochereau, piece of piss
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Free to pee at Waterloo now Free to pee at Waterloo as toilet charges scrapped
Somewhere in Kent there's a Bungle who's fucking furious at this news.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Free to pee at Waterloo now Free to pee at Waterloo as toilet charges scrapped
Somewhere in Kent there's a Bungle who's fucking furious at this news.
It must be a national thing as they stopped the charges at Manchester a while back. Quite right too.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
don't take the piss...
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I presume those flying would be mostly those with connecting flights from the same airport? Otherwise seems pointless unless you live on the doorstep.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Tonight, no trains north out of St Pancrass- so that’s my Thameslink not working. Euston - so my normal plan B of Milton Keynes and then bus or taxi, or most of Kings Cross, so no plan C of Sandy and a taxi. Apparently about 1000 they started a shuttle train Kings X to Hitchin. Bus Hitchin Luton Airport and then a shuttle Airport to Bedford....
I’d arranged to meet an old friend for a quick beer after work..his wife was out so we morphed that into several beers and a curry and I’m now pissed in his spare room in Pinner.
Fuck Borris.
I’d arranged to meet an old friend for a quick beer after work..his wife was out so we morphed that into several beers and a curry and I’m now pissed in his spare room in Pinner.
Fuck Borris.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Fuck Go Vile Thameslink. Tuesday and Wednesday they have had and extra four hours of my life. And tonight, no trains at all; which you would think was a bit of a prerequisite for running a railway. Still it’s not like I give them the fat end of £5,000 a year or anything. At least they always come up with novel excuses...
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I make about 10, and up to 20 quid a week out of claims when I am traveling into London for work.
The delays are not so bad down to Brighton, but they tend to cancel whole trains from Croydon and the pay off is higher so averages out about £10 too.
Some shit happens every single day to give me an uncomfortable ride. . . And they had the cheek to send me a mail blocking me from making claims, because they thought I was making too many!!
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
Yes I got caught out by them also. Had to accompany my sister to a worrying hospital appointment. No bloody trains, so I had to fork out for a cab!
This has not been a good week has it? Have spent about 8ish hours delayed or whatever this week. Last night was especially shit.
Got to the station at 06:30 this morning to get a head start, hung around for half an hour and now have to change
which will likely yield more delays.
Keep the receipt and claim it backYes I got caught out by them also. Had to accompany my sister to a worrying hospital appointment. No bloody trains, so I had to fork out for a cab!
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
trained it to town and back yesterday afternoon, both trains arrived bang on time, just checked recenttraintimes.com and it seems all trains arrived within minutes of their scheduled times last night. Bastard South Western Railways, denying me a claim 
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
SWR will have 27 days of strikes in December, and they are forecast to hit very hard. Good luck to anyone who needs to get to work that month.
What the fuck are the management doing not sorting this out?
And lols to the rancid comments sections of various online rags, they all go along the line of Welcome to Corbyn's Britain. Without seeming to realise that the fucking Tories are in power
What the fuck are the management doing not sorting this out?
And lols to the rancid comments sections of various online rags, they all go along the line of Welcome to Corbyn's Britain. Without seeming to realise that the fucking Tories are in power
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
The Northern Fail app is quite damning - lists all the altered, late, cancelled services by date in the last couple of weeks or so.
Northern Fail app reveals full scale of passengers’ misery
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Should anyone travel on SWR during this month's strikes you can sit in first class if you like, the guards that are not RMT, therefore still working, are not checking tickets
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3.25 hours to get home last night, since this thread has been resurrected. No joy at London Bridge so travelled today Victoria — no joy there either. Went to Vauxhall and basically assaulted my way onto a train that was vaguely going my way then spent £30 on a taxi to get me to my car. Horrific stuff.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Oh that's glorious!
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