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# You, sir
are a poetic jeanyus.

Have you considered getting a laptop so you can shop kittens on the journey?
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 21:10, archived)
# I already do, the battery
only lasts 2 hours. I am designing a British Rail are Cnuts site at the moment.

I've made over 20 complaints and never recieved a coherent or beileivable excuse, or a refund, I am now going to drag thier names collectively through the Internet mud. The only cheap recourse for the commen man.
(I helped save b3ta! Radio Controlled Nun Hasn't posted for 6 years, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 21:13, archived)
# Well I think you're too late
to ruin their reputation... But then you can always blame that on their shoddy service right? :-D

On my local arm of the rail service, I got a photocard thing for free that allowed me to buy a weekly ticket that was much cheaper than the standard rates... It's still suprising though that I can drive further than the distance I'd take the train in less time, and on roads with a maximum 40mph limit... and traffic jams... and stopping for a sarnie. And 'cause it's a Mini I am actually paying less for the journey even including standard running costs on top of fuel and insurance!
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 21:16, archived)
# I think what galls the most
is there are no discounts _at__all_ on my journey, between 2 of the south coasts biggest cities, I'm hardly suprised there are only 2 other commuters who do the same journey.

Oh, and season tickes are pointless, I only have to have one day off on a monthy ticket, and the *GOSH* £6 I save on daily tickets is wiped out.


Brighton to Portmouth via 24 arshole of nowhere stations,stopping at every one.

/edit It takes 3/4 of an hour to drive to Portsmouth, so the train takes more than 3 times longer (almost 4 times in fact).
(I helped save b3ta! Radio Controlled Nun Hasn't posted for 6 years, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 21:21, archived)
# Hey, I live in one of those arseholes!
I'm suprised how much is wiped out though... I was paying 14 quid from worthing to shoreham on a weekly, which was actually cheaper than bunking even if I'd only had to pay one-way per day... usual capture odds were every morning and two evenings.

But then I suppose the longer journeys have a slightly better cost ratio anyhow - 1.50 for a half-mile train ride within worthing itself? taking the extreme piss.
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 21:32, archived)
# I'm sorry
Some of them look like lovely place to live, but once you had 6 months of seeing no-one whatsoever get on a Angmering, Climping, Ford (places I'd never heard of before) you do start to wonder. And they could do some express services that don't stop _eveywere_
(I helped save b3ta! Radio Controlled Nun Hasn't posted for 6 years, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 21:37, archived)
# I live in the big arsehole between them.
And I work in Lancing which definately qualifies as an arsehole. I live five minutes walk from the station, I work five minutes from the station at the other end. It is cheaper and quicker for me to drive.

At least on a normal day that is. It took me over an hour to get out of Worthing this morning.
(I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 22:09, archived)