by alski
12. March 2008 07:15
Yesterday the train manager proudly announced that the train was arriving five minutes early. I believe his exact words were
"Contrary to what you read in the press we are not always late"
At the time this was a little irritating as the train had been 30mins late on Mond...
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by alski
27. February 2008 07:17
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Well its just taken 57 minutes to get from LTV to Tamworth. Has to be a new record, a bad one.
by alski
5. February 2008 17:41
Without wishing to seems uncompassionate, why always us? I don't mean the person who choose to end their life this morning by causing maximum mess for the cleanup team and maximum delay at rush hour. I mean our train. Whenever here are delays they seem to re-balance the trains on the network by send...
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by alski
4. January 2008 08:33
Good news, today we have a working train service.
Bad news (yes I am being pedantic) the train arrived backwards.
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by alski
3. January 2008 10:24
And the news reported on the national rail web site reads
Due to overrunning engineering work between Northampton and Coventry, Virgin Trains and London Midland services are continuing to be disrupted.
The West Coast Main Line will be closed until 05:00 on Friday 4 January. Passengers...
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by alski
2. January 2008 12:43
After completing my first year of commuting insane distances I was pleasantly surprised to turn up to a near empty car park this morning. I had my new shiny season rail ticket and my new shiny car park ticket ready which had liberated me of nearly £8,000 for the years privilege and I wa...
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by alski
29. November 2007 21:45
Unusually the train was late on the way home. About 35mins late. Grrr.
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by alski
26. November 2007 18:20
Technorati Tags: Virgin, Train, Hell, Bad service Special mention for today, it was fantastic. 7:21 arrived at 7:21. Left on time, and went a little bit slowly, then it stopped. So after about half an hour we get an announcement, and eventually we get to Nuneaton. Here we are informed that we our t...
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by alski
21. September 2007 06:34
It's been going ever so well for a while... Yet here I am on the 18:06 that will stop at Birmingham international, where we have no connecting trains to get us home. It's coaches. Yay! Will I see my children while they are still awake, or maybe just before they go to school? Next stop Birmingham at...
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by alski
10. April 2007 20:25
Dear Virgin trains, I've had such a great week I thought I would catalogue my experiences with you. Wednesday 3rd April 17:48 from Euston re-routed at Rugby to Birmingham New Street. Caught 19:35 Cross-City, home at 8pm. Thursday 4th April 17:48 from Euston canceled, no reason given. Instead caugh...
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