Comments on: Loooong weekend http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/loooong-weekend/ From the edge of Zone 1 to the middle of nowhere... Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:34:44 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: A Pattern Emerges « Town Mouse http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/loooong-weekend/#comment-737 A Pattern Emerges « Town Mouse Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:01:57 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=137#comment-737 [...] disgruntled under Weather   Our friends finally made it up here for the weekend, despite the best efforts of Virgin Rail to prevent them. This morning we were debating what to do during their last few [...] [...] disgruntled under Weather   Our friends finally made it up here for the weekend, despite the best efforts of Virgin Rail to prevent them. This morning we were debating what to do during their last few [...]

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/loooong-weekend/#comment-688 disgruntled Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:16:40 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=137#comment-688 Rail Replacement Coach = contradiction in terms. Our friends have postponed their visit now... Rail Replacement Coach = contradiction in terms.

Our friends have postponed their visit now…

]]> By: Michelle http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/loooong-weekend/#comment-687 Michelle Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:52:54 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=137#comment-687 Bah! Don't get me started on rail replacement coaches. For six years (or is it seven now?) I've been travelling on the West Coast Mainline and every time I have to work on a Sunday morning I have to get a coach. A coach which invariably a) leaves late, assuming it arrives in the first place and b) has a driver that doesn't know the way. Assuming everything does go to plan the journey still takes a little over three hours. THREE HOURS!!! Bah! Don’t get me started on rail replacement coaches. For six years (or is it seven now?) I’ve been travelling on the West Coast Mainline and every time I have to work on a Sunday morning I have to get a coach. A coach which invariably a) leaves late, assuming it arrives in the first place and b) has a driver that doesn’t know the way. Assuming everything does go to plan the journey still takes a little over three hours. THREE HOURS!!!

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/loooong-weekend/#comment-686 disgruntled Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:11:13 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=137#comment-686 I meant the East Coast mainline - although as Dom has pointed out there's not much difference these days... I meant the East Coast mainline – although as Dom has pointed out there’s not much difference these days…

]]> By: Flighty http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/loooong-weekend/#comment-685 Flighty Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:42:26 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=137#comment-685 I can see the railways being just as bad in a 100 months time! Did you mean National Express coach? I can see the railways being just as bad in a 100 months time!
Did you mean National Express coach?

]]> By: Dom http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/loooong-weekend/#comment-684 Dom Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:35:44 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=137#comment-684 I've actually found the opposite to be true. The National Express East Anglia bus service from Norwich to London has got so unreliable that they've had to build stations for the bus replacement rail services they run. It's only weekend and bank holidays that they actually run the buses as expected. Even NXEA acknowledge the situation has got bad resorting to using images of the bus replacement rail services on their website. :D I’ve actually found the opposite to be true. The National Express East Anglia bus service from Norwich to London has got so unreliable that they’ve had to build stations for the bus replacement rail services they run. It’s only weekend and bank holidays that they actually run the buses as expected. Even NXEA acknowledge the situation has got bad resorting to using images of the bus replacement rail services on their website. :D

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