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Where have all our trains gone? Anyone else noticed the new timetable at LJ? I can't get to work from there any more. It has always been so great .... until now 😢
 
Where have all our trains gone? Anyone else noticed the new timetable at LJ? I can't get to work from there any more. It has always been so great .... until now 😢
As far as I know, the timetable is temporary. Bought on due to covid sickness effect on staff. And yes. Total pain in the arse.
 
As far as I know, the timetable is temporary. Bought on due to covid sickness effect on staff. And yes. Total pain in the arse.
I asked Stanley about it the other day. Happened to say it ruined the prospect of me attending St Pauls now.
Oh go by bus he said. He even gave me an appropriate bus combination - bus 45 no longer does the job.

Given that the full service operated the whole of the Covid lockdown it may be that we have this reduced service at least for another year.
As I said in post Loughborough Junction chitter-chatter the current service is the worst ever.
At least prior to Thameslink it was half hourly.
 
brought on by the Euros , that's when big time staff sickness began ..... :facepalm:
A satirist.
A side effect of this retimetabling is to scrap Thameslink compensation payable to customers for delayed and cancelled trains.
 
Other half just went into Best One at end of Barrington Rd. Note on the window saying from 16th Sept there will be a post office there. Didn't expect that. But will be very handy.
Open now. I just had the privilege of being one of their first customers :thumbs:
 
Other half just went into Best One at end of Barrington Rd. Note on the window saying from 16th Sept there will be a post office there. Didn't expect that. But will be very handy.
It's a Post Office-ette in terms of size, but I'd be happy with one of those nearby.

 
It's a Post Office-ette in terms of size, but I'd be happy with one of those nearby.

It will be super handy. However I'm not sure that shop is big enough for this really.
They've situated it right by the window. Will be a nightmare if there's a queue that goes past the door.
 
It'll depend how popular it is I guess. Probably not room for more than about 2 or 3 people queuing, before they start getting in the way of the door.
 
It will be super handy. However I'm not sure that shop is big enough for this really.
They've situated it right by the window. Will be a nightmare if there's a queue that goes past the door.

Brixton Road sub post office is a similar set up, when we were locked down the inside queue was limited to 3 people, this is still adhered to with a longish queue in the street most days....
 
Brixton Road sub post office is a similar set up, when we were locked down the inside queue was limited to 3 people, this is still adhered to with a longish queue in the street most days....
Oh yes. Didn't think about people waiting outside. That's probably the answer.
 
Forensics team dusting down the barriers in Loughborough Junction station this morning - anybody know what that’s about?
 

Loughborough Junction live: Updates after 'shooting' outside Tesco Express as police swarm scene​


Its quite rough round there nowadays. If you wear a mask in the Tesco Express other customers look at you daggers sometimes.

On Tuesday I went to check out at the self-service till and found the previous customer had abandoned his purchase of a Heineken 4-pack - and taken the £5.50 worth of beer out with him tout-de-suite. A cashier came round to clear the till screen for me and commented - "didn't pay" - shouted to the security but the thief was long gone. Everyone shrugs shoulders and life goes on.

Not that I'm equating theft of factory-canned beer with a shooting. But broken windows and all that.
 
From the location of the cordon (down at the end of Belinda Rd) it doesn't really look like it's related to the Tesco.
 
Why would other customers glare at you for wearing a mask? Probably should be the other around!
Perhaps this is not the thread - but I could be projecting onto them what they are projecting onto me.
 
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