Charl91 Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 The train I regularly have to get from Stoke to Derby. Only one carriage long, so at peak times, it's effectively a moving sardine tin.
Manwell Pablo Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 It didn't happen to me, I've never had a really bad train experience, plenty of unpleastent lateness etc but nothing too bad. Whilst at Uni two of my flat mates managed to get on the train destined for Blackpool instead of Huddersfield from Manchester Piccadilly. And it took the pair of tools ages to realise, if fact they spent 15 minutes ripping the piss out of some Candian guy who asked them if he was on the right train as they thought he was heading for Huddersfield instead of Blackpool. By the time the penny finally dropped they were half way to Crewe, with it being past 10.30 at night by the time they got to Crewe and with near enough all trains not running much after midnight they were unable to go all the way back that evening so spent literally the entire night in train stations with nowhere to go, think they rolled in at 9am the next morning. I laguhed at them, a lot. EDIT: Oh yeah, the bastard train conducter charged them for their trip to Crewe despite it being totally in error as well
Corky Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 Got back from Huddersfield at 1am in January, having been scheduled to arrive at 9.15pm. Was stuck for nearly 3 hours at Peterborough station, thrilling. Trains in this country are not the best, often overcrowded on popular routes (with an inadeqaute amount of carriages) and often small delays can affect journeys. Yet prices are going up and will continue to rise.
ousefox Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 I am constantly on trains so have had a lot of 'experiences'. The most annoying thing about trains for me is that you have to book months in advance to get reasonable prices. The are so many reserved seats that don't get used and it's illegal to resell them. I'd love to get back some of the money i've wasted when games have been changed etc. I was on a train where every seat had a reservation on my carriage and it wasn't even half full. People talking on their mobiles for more than five minutes pisses me off massively, some guy last week had the same conversation with about 5 different people. I ended up picking up my phone and pretended to have the same conversation as if i was him.. he took the hint! Before Peterborough had ticket barriers, they decided to randomly check tickets as people left the station. I'd already shown my ticket and railcard on the train. Didn't mind them checking the ticket as i saw people doing it and got my ticket out. I was in a rush to get out and had already waited in the queue and there were loads of people behind me, and the woman asked to see my railcard too, I got pissed off as i needed to get out and there were loads of people waiting. You never have to show your railcard at ticket barriers. Had a go at her and she was a right cow, the policeman next to her told me to calm down but by that time i'd already walked off. I do like a chat on the train with random people but that seems to have dissapeared, i'd love there to be a 'chatting coach' like there is a quiet coach. Love talking to other football fans and had some good times with York fans playing drinking games on the train and football fans always seem to be friendly. Even got on the Derby special train on the way back from the game at home last season and they were a good laugh. Also met a few Leicester fans on trains who i've become friends with and gone to a couple of games with, which is fun when you live in York and can't just go with all your mates who support the same team.
FoxesAreBlue Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 Got on the wrong train to millwall away once, ended up in Birmingham and got downto london from there - my retard mates fault
Guest MattP Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 From Delhi to Calcutta, something like 40 hours. Sleeper class, each area had six beds, for six people. In my area there was at its peak 22 people, and never less than 15. My top bunk bed turned into a top bunk space of about 1metre squared. No air con, and the bunk was too high to catch the moving air from the fans. It was 40 degrees outside, and the sun was beating down on the metal train. The ceiling was about 20cm from ny head and boiling hot to touch. Must have been at least 50 degrees inside the train. No room for movement. 40 hours. Fun. That's the winner, made me feel sick just reading it.
fleckneymike Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 I was once sitting in the priority seats when a blind man came on with his dog. I felt like a murderer. Yeah but how would he know you weren't blind too?
Northants Fox 3 Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 I had to go on a Hospital visit to the Leicester Infirmary to see My then partner who'd been transferred from the Northampton General, we were playing Northampton at the King Power that day ..... Thought i'd be clever and go by train (Had to change at Birmingham) so I could stay till the end of visiting hours, (well it was a good idea at the time) got there no trouble, did the visit left at 8:30pm got to Station in time to catch the 9:30pm back to Birmingham, that's when it went wrong as the last train back to Northampton had already gone so was stuck in Birmingham...Got a Taxi back home in the end cost me another £70 on top of what i'd already paid in the first place
ScouseFox Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 I like trains. No real problems ever experienced that I can remember, some cancelled, some delayed but nothing major ever really. People on trains are a different story. They are all cúnts. Every single one of them.
JonnyBoy Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 train back home from Peterborough, delayed for an hour in the middle of nowhere, having to deal with a group of old men playing cards for very small amounts of money perving on 16 year old girls trying to get to Leicester for a night out
Leicesterpool Posted 12 March 2013 Author Posted 12 March 2013 How can some people get on the wrong train, it's on the boards!
Guest MattP Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 Made tons of fcuks up over the years being pissed. Worst was missing a stop at Lancaster and ending up in Glasgow at 11pm.
ADK Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 I never got the hang of opening train doors and now they are all electric.
Leicesterpool Posted 12 March 2013 Author Posted 12 March 2013 I know my dad once had a night out in Birmingham he fell asleep on the train, typical! and woke up in Leicester. Went to the ticket office where they told him he missed the last train home by ten minutes he couldn't get a taxi home because he only £10 quid plus he didn't take his cards so he couldn't stay in hotel. Tried to have a kip in a waiting room but got kicked out. To be honest i think in this day and age we should have trains 24 hours a day because people have still go to get to places after midnight especially people who work.
Webbo Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 I know my dad once had a night out in Birmingham he fell asleep on the train, typical! and woke up in Leicester. Went to the ticket office where they told him he missed the last train home by ten minutes he couldn't get a taxi home because he only £10 quid plus he didn't take his cards so he couldn't stay in hotel. Tried to have a kip in a waiting room but got kicked out. To be honest i think in this day and age we should have trains 24 hours a day because people have still go to get to places after midnight especially people who work. you think we should have one train an hour to Nuneaton 24/7 on the off chance that somebody might want to go there at 2 in the morning?
Leicesterpool Posted 12 March 2013 Author Posted 12 March 2013 you think we should have one train an hour to Nuneaton 24/7 on the off chance that somebody might want to go there at 2 in the morning? Some people work
FoxesAreBlue Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 How can some people get on the wrong train, it's on the boards! People in a rush don't read or use wrong side of the platform.
Northants Fox 3 Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 Got another just remembered this one, coming back from holiday with my mum in Devon (was a while back) and had go to Birmingham, was great as we found a Mainline service that was timetabled to stop at Northampton and was 30 minutes earlier than the one we going to get approaching Castle station the guard came on saying that due to a signalling error the next stop would now be Milton Keynes (Previous train had been sent to the platform by mistake) We went from being 30 minutes early to getting back an hour late
Leicesterpool Posted 12 March 2013 Author Posted 12 March 2013 In Nuneaton? Not just Nuneaton but across the country
Zingari Posted 12 March 2013 Posted 12 March 2013 Leaving aside fantastic scenery on some journeys , I'm struggling to think of a good experience of rail travel
Leicesterpool Posted 12 March 2013 Author Posted 12 March 2013 Got another just remembered this one, coming back from holiday with my mum in Devon (was a while back) and had go to Birmingham, was great as we found a Mainline service that was timetabled to stop at Northampton and was 30 minutes earlier than the one we going to get approaching Castle station the guard came on saying that due to a signalling error the next stop would now be Milton Keynes (Previous train had been sent to the platform by mistake) We went from being 30 minutes early to getting back an hour late Sounds similar summer of last year me and my family went to Skeggy, me and my dad travelled ahead and my mom and sister were travelling an hour later, everything was going smoothly until we reached Nottingham where we got told no trains were running between Nottingham and Grantham due to a land slide, so passengers we forced to get onto a coach to Grantham and pick up the train journey there. So we eventually got to Grantham, where we were told that now we'd have to get on another coach to Sleaford and join the train there, on arrival there my mum and sister we're already on board the train!, the train was rerouted via Lincoln, so the journey was only suppose to take 3 and half hours instead took six hours!
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