Great Train Journeys

[splott parker]

:hehe: Bit chaotic at Cardiff General this morning, our train cancelled, advised to get on a train to Newport to get a connection, all sat on there (and stood, hanging off the roof akin to a Bombay express). That was then cancelled, got off and are now on a train to Reading to get a Southampton connection, all good fun though:hehe:

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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:hehe: Bit chaotic at Cardiff General this morning, our train cancelled, advised to get on a train to Newport to get a connection, all sat on there (and stood, hanging off the roof akin to a Bombay express). That was then cancelled, got off and are now on a train to Reading to get a Southampton connection, all good fun though:hehe:

I keep getting images in my mind of Michael Palin. :hehe:

[Enoch Mort]

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:hehe: Bit chaotic at Cardiff General this morning, our train cancelled, advised to get on a train to Newport to get a connection, all sat on there (and stood, hanging off the roof akin to a Bombay express). That was then cancelled, got off and are now on a train to Reading to get a Southampton connection, all good fun though:hehe:

Is Michael Portillo there ?

[splott parker]

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Is Michael Portillo there ?

That two Michaels, coincidentally I’m with my mate, Michael O’Leary:hehe:

[Enoch Mort]

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That two Michaels, coincidentally I’m with my mate, Michael O’Leary:hehe:

If you are with Michael O’Leary why aren’t you flying to Southampton ?

[splott parker]

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If you are with Michael O’Leary why aren’t you flying to Southampton ?

He gets that at passport control every holiday he goes on:hehe:

[pipster]

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We are on the 9.30 train , it’s chaos, lots of women were going to the bath Xmas market, that weren’t quite expecting to be standing all the way, some if are lot are stupidly pissed already

[blue matt]

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We are on the 9.30 train , it’s chaos, lots of women were going to the bath Xmas market, that weren’t quite expecting to be standing all the way, some if are lot are stupidly pissed already

last year I got the train back home from seeing my mum, and amount of Very pissed Welsh woman on the train going to the Bath Christmas markets were frightening and it was about the same time as yours ( 9.30 ) These were woman of a wide range of ages, from 20's upto 50's , some couldnt hardly stand, it was akin to going to a Tom Jones gig

[Enoch Mort]

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He gets that at passport control every holiday he goes on:hehe:

:hehe::thumbup:

[Heathblue]

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:hehe: Bit chaotic at Cardiff General this morning, our train cancelled, advised to get on a train to Newport to get a connection, all sat on there (and stood, hanging off the roof akin to a Bombay express). That was then cancelled, got off and are now on a train to Reading to get a Southampton connection, all good fun though:hehe:

Cardiff General :facepalm:, that's old skool, keep up with the times it's Central, General would probably be considered risky and colonialist !!!

[mps1]

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Absolute fecking shambles. My boy and his 3 mates were booked on the 08:51 from STJ. Absolutely rammed so guard told them to wait for the 09:51 which had the same result. What with Cardiff away and also Bath Markets surely this could have been planned better with extra trains!!
In the end I had to drive them to Bath Spa as this was the only way they were getting on the train to Southampton with shoppers disembarking at Bath Spa.
Would also help if the conductors used the train tannoy to ask passengers to move to the centre of the carriages as noticed everyone was congragated by the doors and not budging.
May as well driven them to Southampton and tried getting in the home end.!!

[MacAdder]

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.... are few and far between in the UK" :angry:

Transport for Wales is a crock of shite.

Kudos to all you travellers today, hope you are rewarded with a victory for all your efforts :ayatollah:

[Grangenders]

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Yep this probably wasn’t the wisest away trip to do by train! Fair play to the train companies they put out the advance warnings about avoiding Bath this weekend. The service to Southampton via Reading is a much more pleasant service although more expensive. I imagine the return trip will be much more of a lottery!

[splott parker]

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Yep this probably wasn’t the wisest away trip to do by train! Fair play to the train companies they put out the advance warnings about avoiding Bath this weekend. The service to Southampton via Reading is a much more pleasant service although more expensive. I imagine the return trip will be much more of a lottery!

We went via Reading…horrendous!! Had to sit in the toilet with the door open due to overcrowding. Luckily a mate had room on a bus home, which is where we are now. Friends texting us with news of shocking overcrowding on the train home. Mick Lynch is right, invest in more rolling stock rather than pacifying shareholders with huge dividends. How can any company sell more tickets than there are seats available? A theatre or cinema couldn’t do it and have patrons stood packed in the aisles.

[blue matt]

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. How can any company sell more tickets than there are seats available? A theatre or cinema couldn’t do it

airlines do, normally above 10% of seats are overbooked