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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| 12-3-2010 | Your gripe and upset etc at First Great Western is understandable but "Over-running engineering works" is highy likely to be the fault of the infrastructure owner, i.e: Network Fail oh sorry I meant Network Rail. Take the compensation and feel lucky you got any at all for that matter. | Railway Person |
| 25-1-2010 | Actually if you are 59 minutes delayed it counts under 1 hour and still no compensation! | Another disgruntled customer |
| 01-7-2009 | hi anna, it's not true that lateness is only measured if it's within an hour... with most of fgw's services, a train fails to meet it's target if it is over ten minutes late. | joe |
| 22-2-2009 | Beee zat Exeter Saint David's err beee zat Exeter Saint Thomas. I hawp yer pocket watch werr zet by Railway Time as her shuwd bee. Zer bee awser trains Exeter terr Waterloo by weigh ov Yeovil. | Unker Tamm Cabbley |
| 22-2-2009 | Since Sept last year, I've made at least one return trip from Devon to Paddington each week. So far, there's been one train cancellation (just before Christmas) and one serious delay (due to snow).
On both occasions, I still got to my destination. That's a success rate of, er... 10...more | Sam |
| 24-1-2009 | Leaving just 25 minutes slack time in a journey that long and that important seems rather foolish. | Nick |
| 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 |
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