My experience recently went like this. I had a job interview in London, to which I needed to travel from Devon. I checked train times, and found that the earliest train arrival was 08:49 into London Paddington.
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| 25-5-2008 | I sympathise with you, and I think it would be a wonderful world if every train was on time - I have been on some pretty horrific and protracted train journeys myself. Unfortunately that is a completely unrealistic expectation - there are some fairly systemic problems with the railway infrastructur...more | Ella |
| 08-5-2008 | I've travelled on FGW trains into London Monday to Friday for 6 Months. The service has been pretty good. I do have a car but travelling to London by car would be stupidly inpracticle.
Problems that have caused my train to be delayed:
Tresspassers on the line, not FGWs fault.
A fatality a...more | That same youth you all hate. |
| 02-2-2008 | some of the comments here are a bit unfair, leaves do slow trains down, because they form a slippy residue on the Rail head as does light rain/frost/snow meaning trains are more prone to wheel slip/spin, and take longer to brake from 60mph a modern electric train takes 3/4 of a mile to stop in emerg...more | daniel |
| 02-2-2008 | Last Late Western really suck, I have to get their trains everyday. they are falling apart, over crowded a three car train turns up to transport 600 or so college students (they know fall well turn up for the 16:21 service) monday to friday. they turn up late up to 2 hours late, and leaving nearly 8...more | daniel |
| 12-1-2008 | That's an unfortunate tale Anna but an all too common scenario with travel by FGW. I travel around London and SE daily for work and use part public transport/part car depending on the usefulness of rail connections. There have been many switches of franchise operators and varying levels of impro...more | James |
| 22-11-2007 | Sorry about the typo in previous posting should read.....they travel to work/meetings in cars or taxis once again, at the tax payers expense. | Gugs |
| 22-11-2007 | Dave writing to MP will achieve nothing but a standard response. I am sure Alison Forster, previous Great Western Director, got her fat bonus and so will the new MD, Andrew Haines. Like those who were running Metronet despite its demise. No doubt many MP's are on executive boards of the train c...more | Gugs |
| 20-11-2007 | I ask: why spend all that money on printing timetables when the trains
very rarely run on time or are cancelled at the spur of the moment. Why
doesn't FGW publish a general statement: "First Great Western trains may
depart/arrive at any time due to no fault of their own but because of:
...more | Gugs |
| 20-11-2007 | I usually commute into London on the 7.03 FGW from Iver, which is almost
always late. The return journey (4.45PM) in evening is no better. The
displays, when they work, show the trains are running on time, which
are, almost always late. It is quite apparent that the definition of 'On
Time...more | Gugs |
| 06-11-2007 | Now you see the whole point here is, a company advertised a time of arrival and departure. The customer believing these details would of gone based on that information. Your saying it’s the fault of the customer for using the details that the company has given him?
I use First ‘Great...more | Dave, Bristol |
| 02-11-2007 | As Dave from Oxfordshire says, any train over 10 minutes late counts as "late".
As for the over-running engineering works, that ISN'T First Great Western's fault - that's Network Rail, who maintain the tracks/signals across the UK railway network.
Leaving only 30 minutes ...more | ANDREW |
| 12-8-2007 | As Dave from Oxfordshire says, any train over 10 minutes late counts as "late".
As for the over-running engineering works, that ISN'T First Great Western's fault - that's Network Rail, who maintain the tracks/signals across the UK railway network.
Leaving only 30 minutes ...more | Railway_Bob |
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