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[JamesV6CDX]

Just to take the biscuit... in the last month I have left in my job.

My daily train fare from Cardiff to Gloucester has gone up,  from £11.40 to £17.45.

That's another £120/month  

[tunnie]

Just to take the biscuit... in the last month I have left in my job.

My daily train fare from Cardiff to Gloucester has gone up,  from £11.40 to £17.45.

That's another £120/month  

How far is it?

I pay £368 for my monthly train ticket to London, which includes tube.

Its around 65 miles each way.

[Kevin Wood]

Bu663r me!

I don't feel so bad about pouring petrol into the 3.2 now.  

Kevin

[tunnie]

Bu663r me!

I don't feel so bad about pouring petrol into the 3.2 now.  

Kevin

I know its not cheap  

But at the end of the day, its only 15% of the money i take home, so not too fussed!  

[Danny]

Just to take the biscuit... in the last month I have left in my job.

My daily train fare from Cardiff to Gloucester has gone up,  from £11.40 to £17.45.

That's another £120/month  

How far is it?

I pay £368 for my monthly train ticket to London, which includes tube.

Its around 65 miles each way.

my weekly travel costs are about £100 a month, which is nice

[tunnie]

Just to take the biscuit... in the last month I have left in my job.

My daily train fare from Cardiff to Gloucester has gone up,  from £11.40 to £17.45.

That's another £120/month  

How far is it?

I pay £368 for my monthly train ticket to London, which includes tube.

Its around 65 miles each way.

my weekly travel costs are about £100 a month, which is nice

I would love it to be £100 a month, its also a looong way to go.

But the job that i do, i can't get back home.

Even though its expensive the pay makes up for it.

[Martin_1962]

Why such a rise?

Is it first class?

Have they laid on a special train?

Is it a comfy loco hauled train or a engine under he floor noisy job

[Kevin Wood]

Why such a rise?

Is it first class?

Have they laid on a special train?

Is it a comfy loco hauled train or a engine under he floor noisy job

Do you still have to sit next to someone who smells / blathers constantly on a mobile phone?

 

Kevin

[tunnie]

Why such a rise?

Is it first class?

Have they laid on a special train?

Is it a comfy loco hauled train or a engine under he floor noisy job

Do you still have to sit next to someone who smells / blathers constantly on a mobile phone?

 

Kevin

I use Chiltern Railways, they don't get the fast line, so its actually fairly slow, good point is though is not many people use it.

ALL trains have aircon, and in 10 months of commuting, only had 1 train with failed air-con.

The slightly newer ones have powerpoints at the each seat and laptop designed tables.

Its usually very, very good, hardly anyone makes a sound! Most mornings its silent on board!  

[JamesV6CDX]

No, not first class, nothing has changed apart from the fact you can no longer get a standard day return "on the day"

The trains themselves are not too bad. They are the Turbostar 170 2/3 carriage 100mph jobs that were run by Central Trains on the Cardiff-Nottingham route for some time. They are now run by CrossCountry (Arriva).

Another lost benefit - the old Central Trains units had de-commissioned first class, so you could get really comfy seats for normal fare.

XC are now capitalising on this though and re-instating first class.

Still better than Arriva trains wales though, in the respect that ATW are running the old class 140 trains, they feel like they should be in a museum!!!

[Kevin Wood]

ALL trains have aircon, and in 10 months of commuting, only had 1 train with failed air-con.

Ahh, I wish I could find trains with failed air con. The slam doors we used to have were fine. Too hot? Open the rather window.

Now we get these new Siemens jobs with the fans permanently wired to maximum speed and maximum noise, and really bright lighting. Half an hour on the train and your eyeballs are dried out and you have a headache. Not to mention the stupid announcements that repeat the same message every couple of minutes. It would drive me insane if I had to commute.

IMHO, these trains are more suitable for metro lines where you hop on them for a few minutes at a time. Surely something more comfortable is in order when you've got 1h20? (It was only just over an hour on a slam-door. They're clearly slower as well.)

Kevin

[tunnie]

No, not first class, nothing has changed apart from the fact you can no longer get a standard day return "on the day"

The trains themselves are not too bad. They are the Turbostar 170 2/3 carriage 100mph jobs that were run by Central Trains on the Cardiff-Nottingham route for some time. They are now run by CrossCountry (Arriva).

Another lost benefit - the old Central Trains units had de-commissioned first class, so you could get really comfy seats for normal fare.

XC are now capitalising on this though and re-instating first class.

Still better than Arriva trains wales though, in the respect that ATW are running the old class 140 trains, they feel like they should be in a museum!!!

They run the same here, trouble is only 25 miles of the 65 mile run can they actually do 100!  

I even got geeky and wipped out the Crackberry which has build in GPS, according to it, on 1 section we did 103mph  8-)

[Marks DTM Calib]

James

I assume the price rise is due to the poor exchange rate between the pound and the Welsh grote.....

[FRE07962128]

ALL trains have aircon, and in 10 months of commuting, only had 1 train with failed air-con.

Ahh, I wish I could find trains with failed air con. The slam doors we used to have were fine. Too hot? Open the rather window.

Now we get these new Siemens jobs with the fans permanently wired to maximum speed and maximum noise, and really bright lighting. Half an hour on the train and your eyeballs are dried out and you have a headache. Not to mention the stupid announcements that repeat the same message every couple of minutes. It would drive me insane if I had to commute.

IMHO, these trains are more suitable for metro lines where you hop on them for a few minutes at a time. Surely something more comfortable is in order when you've got 1h20? (It was only just over an hour on a slam-door. They're clearly slower as well.)

Kevin

All you can do Kevin is hope that one day the Mid-Hants, 'Watercress Line' Railway will take over the line up to London from Alton!

All carragies will be guaranteed not to have a/c, will be steam heated in winter, and you will be pulled by beautiful steam engines like West Country Class 'Bodmin' 34016, or A4 Pacific 'Bittern' 60019 or Merchant Navy ''Canadian Pacific' 35005 or.......... ooh what fantasies!!!

Now that would be romantic and so enjoyable, as long as you do not mind a bit of soot on your clothes every so often!

[Olympia5776]

Just to take the biscuit... in the last month I have left in my job.

My daily train fare from Cardiff to Gloucester has gone up,  from £11.40 to £17.45.

That's another £120/month  

I guess it's down to the rise and rise in the price of oil, but an increase as large as that is outrageous....
Don