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[Lizzie_Zoom]

He is on a 168. Terrible vibration on those. BR 165's are smoother but slower. Trolley service is only on Banbury express with banbarian being first stop. No trolley service on Bicester bound trains.

Well I'm surprised Tunnie   They used to provide a great ride only 7 years ago.

[aaronjb]

i used to get the train into london, 20 mins but packed. coming home the same,but 3 carriages with a total platform packed solid all trying to get on, probably 6-700 people. after rush hr they increase it to 5 carriages and they chug along half empty. been going on for the last 10 yrs now, nothing will ever change

Sounds like the train I was on at the weekend .. I accidentally caught the train immediately before the England-South Africa game at Twickenham and wondered why it was standing room only on the slowest train in the world (an hour and a bit from Bracknell to London Waterloo)..

Lots of disappointed fans on the platform by the time we'd got to Feltham has there was no more room to get on.

Well, there would have been, save for the women who kept screaming "My cream boots! I've got cream boots on and you're getting dirt on them! I need to get off! I'm getting claustrophobic!" as she stared out of the glass in the doors

(It was much nicer coming back - had a seat and everything - save for the drunk bloke trying to hit on the tiniest 30-something woman I've seen in my life. She was cute though, to give him some credit )

[Richie London]

mine is the great western line, reading to london. always on time but never enough carriages.

[aaronjb]

mine is the great western line, reading to london. always on time but never enough carriages.

Is that the line that runs through Slough? That one was fast (if you caught the right train) - 25 mins from Slough to Paddington..

This line goes from Reading->Bracknell->Ascot->Clapham Junction->Waterloo (with a million stops between all those places ) and is slow as you like

[Jimbob]

Been down the smoke myself today for a meeting with IBM
do my best to avoid London, the underground, and trains in that order 

London...as it always is
Tube, as it always is
not that ive been there for 10 years 
Trains from Chester to London....impressive, much nicer than any ive been on in the past, these penalino things I think.

[tunnie]

He is on a 168. Terrible vibration on those. BR 165's are smoother but slower. Trolley service is only on Banbury express with banbarian being first stop. No trolley service on Bicester bound trains.

Well I'm surprised Tunnie   They used to provide a great ride only 7 years ago.

I've been using them for past 5 years, if you get the right seat near the cab its ok, but they have serious cabin vibration.

[Richie London]

Been down the smoke myself today for a meeting with IBM
do my best to avoid London, the underground, and trains in that order 

London...as it always is
Tube, as it always is
not that ive been there for 10 years 
Trains from Chester to London....impressive, much nicer than any ive been on in the past, these penalino things I think.

that train i got up to stoke when i met pete and daz was the cheapo one for 16 quid, looked like an old nunderground metroploitan line train, stopped at every stop going and was more uncomfortable than sitting on a pineaple with piles

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I think you lot are spoilt with your trains now

Do you remember the 'slam door' 1970 stock on the southern?  Now that was noisy, very drafty (most windows didn't shut properly), often very cold when having weather like we are having now, stiffling in the summer, very dirty, and even better often had seat cushions missing so you couldn't use the seats if you wanted to!!

You load of softies!  

[Kevin Wood]

Do you remember the 'slam door' 1970 stock on the southern? 

With fondness. You were in charge of your own destiny. Too hot? open the window. No piped H&S droid over the PA system reminding you every 2 minutes not to hang out of the windows that you can't open anyway, or reminding you which train you're on as if you're too daft to read a timetable.

No air con that is fixed on full pelt, droning away, so your eyes instantly dry out and fuse with your eyelids.

There was always the thought that if it did get too bad you could open the door and make a bid for freedom. An exit strategy. No more. Nanny decides when you open the door.

Kevin

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Do you remember the 'slam door' 1970 stock on the southern? 

With fondness. You were in charge of your own destiny. Too hot? open the window. No piped H&S droid over the PA system reminding you every 2 minutes not to hang out of the windows that you can't open anyway, or reminding you which train you're on as if you're too daft to read a timetable.

No air con that is fixed on full pelt, droning away, so your eyes instantly dry out and fuse with your eyelids.

There was always the thought that if it did get too bad you could open the door and make a bid for freedom. An exit strategy. No more. Nanny decides when you open the door.



Kevin

Indeed Kevin, when you thought life was over and you couldn't take the rattler any more, at least you could jump
with fate in your hands................not some faceless whatsit elsewhere on the train!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

We must not forget the compartment suburban coaches, that later were deemed dangerous for us women.

I remember them as being lovely secluded places, where if alone with your boyfriend you had a precise time alone before arriving at the next station....................

[aaronjb]

Do you remember the 'slam door' 1970 stock on the southern?  Now that was noisy, very drafty (most windows didn't shut properly)

I think I was on one of those on the way back from London the other night (well, not quite - but it was manual swing doors between carriages, windows you could still open etc - presumably because the regular train was stuck in Vauxhall)

[Kevin Wood]

I remember them as being lovely secluded places, where if alone with your boyfriend you had a precise time alone before arriving at the next station....................

Hmm. :-? The timing element must have taken some practice.

Kevin

[aaronjb]

I remember them as being lovely secluded places, where if alone with your boyfriend you had a precise time alone before arriving at the next station....................

Hmm. :-? The timing element must have taken some practice.

For some reason I'm reminded of the Russell Peters sketch ..

"Oh my god! I'm arriving!"

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn5TjJYlr-Q < jump to ~1:39 .. then watch the rest of his stuff as it's incredibly funny)

[Vamps]

Sorry TB, it has just clicked with me (getting bloody old!!) I mean the Class 168 which I used to travel on, which Chiltern Railways call the "Clubman"



 

That looks far more modern than anything I have traveled on, says me trying to think back to when I last traveled by train....