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Well in the end after all the delays and hardly ever getting to work on time for several months, guess who got chosen for redundancy and the bare minimum severance pay?
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As for notes, where it asks you for the reason for delay e.g. cancelled train or delayed on route there is also an 'Other'. If you select this it gives you a box to type in your reason. That should work for you? |
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Thing is, I understand all that, but if the infrastructure was already poor to begin with and they were struggling to run services, why are they continuing to attempt to run a full service? At least by reducing a service for a few months people can make plans. Nothing is ideal, but people spend so long currently sitting on trains that aren’t moving or waiting for trains, goodwill no longer exists. It’s not evening happening once a week, but every day. Yesterday I was half an hour late for work and my train home had a “delay” so had to change route. The other options of course, was that if customers have to “grin and bare” a poor service then they should reduce the cost to go with the reduced service we are getting. Cool. I was just wondering about that.
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Sorry to hear that dude.
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It would be nice to introduce a system whereby the customer can pay if or when Southern actually get them to their destination on time.
I suppose it's a bit like when you have an extension built on your house. No good paying it all up front as the builder might do a bunk a leave you with half a house. I suppose then you'll have to peruse them for your money back. This is a bit like delay repay. I suppose on the rare occasion that Southern get me to work in time (or back without deciding I need to be thrown off of an already late train to wait half an hour for another one because it needs to go fast to Victoria to make up time) then I'd happily pay after. Surely it would save time for everyone if I only had to pay after the service functioned correctly.
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agree that they shouldve reduced services and sent some up to blackfriars (like they did during the blockage in august)..... i think in hindsight they may regret this. Its just gonna be like this for a long time. They may even be more crowded when Thameslink services terminate at LBG instead of going through to Luton and beyond, from december! |
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I don't mean this agressively or sarcastially, and if i've misinterpreted anything then I apologise.
To clarify, are you saying that the poor level of service we have been given since the recent London Bridge closure can be the sort of service we can expect on a regular basis for the forseeable future? |
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I must admit, I was slightly worried about how I was going to get home after a boozy work night as I tend to rely on the Thameslink services to E Croydon then. |
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they won't be going to London Bridge at all until 2018, certainly that is the information conveyed in Thameslink Programme's web site: September 2014 onwards
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06.47 from woodmansterne was cancelled due to a defective train again same as last monday but at least the victoria one after it was not stuck behind it this time at tattenham.
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poor chap had a heart attack at Purley Oaks. Took 2hrs 40 mins to get to work but probably a good day to count one's blessings ?
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But as ever, their response to it can always be questioned. A delay at Purley Oaks should not mean it takes 40 minutes to get from East Croydon to London Bridge. |
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My job role is changing and I'm probably going to be taking redundancy. If I want to stay in the kind of work I'm currently doing, I'll pretty much have to work in London. I live a 10 minute walk from Three Bridges station.
After reading parts of this thread and chatting to other people who commute, I'm not going to bother with London. Right now I leave home at 0840 for 0900 start, and finish at 0530 and get home at 0540. 2 hours (or more judging by this thread) out of my life every day on a horrible, hot and chronically expensive train sounds like hell. |
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2 trains cancelled on me this morning from Sydenham to LB, had to get on the overground to Whitechapel. what an awful journey.
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Serious question; why do people put up with this?
I commuted for two years before I decided I wanted to be master of my own destiny and decided to (motor) bike to work. Advantages : always know what time you are going to get in; costs much less; don't catch winter colds anymore ; and it's fun. Disadvantages : meh, sometimes it's cold. But better that than those sweltering summer tubes and miserable germ-laden winter ones. The only reason a commute is miserable is because people put up with it.
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But yes, I guess Brighton is less easy. I'm in Upper Norwood, so that's a 60 minute commute by train or 30 by bike.
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