This week
This has been a really dramatic week, beginning with the Fare strike and ending with public apologies from the Prime Minister and First Great Western.
Congratulations to the More Train Less Strain group for such achieving such amazing publicity for the cause. I hope this blog helped in a small way. Thanks also to the Bath Chronicle for their extensive coverage.
I am still not happy with the apology from FGW. Having initially blamed the overcrowding on temporary maintenance issues and teething problems(and the passengers for not wanting to catch the right trains) they have now said that they understimated demand and withdrew too many carriages as a result. Utter crap, of course. They surely did not think there was overcapacity on the network. The reason they withdrew the carriages was to save money, pure and simple. Customers were a second consideration.
As far as my own journey is concerned the 07:31 is now 4 carriages and the 17:04 is three carriages. How long this will last I do not know. Watch this space.
Congratulations to the More Train Less Strain group for such achieving such amazing publicity for the cause. I hope this blog helped in a small way. Thanks also to the Bath Chronicle for their extensive coverage.
I am still not happy with the apology from FGW. Having initially blamed the overcrowding on temporary maintenance issues and teething problems(and the passengers for not wanting to catch the right trains) they have now said that they understimated demand and withdrew too many carriages as a result. Utter crap, of course. They surely did not think there was overcapacity on the network. The reason they withdrew the carriages was to save money, pure and simple. Customers were a second consideration.
As far as my own journey is concerned the 07:31 is now 4 carriages and the 17:04 is three carriages. How long this will last I do not know. Watch this space.
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