Boarding a train, doors closed quickly left me on the platform
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The train just pulled out of the station
One Sunday in March this year I had the misfortune to endure the train trip from Hell. To say I was angered is a slight understatement! I expressed my disgust with the bolshy 'girl' only to be told 'There were sea
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My hellish train journey. I had been to my native Black Country hometown of Tipton for an old schoolmate’s 50th birthday party and had caught the 08.59 train from Tipton to Birmingham New Street Station.
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| 26-5-2008 | Consider yourself lucky.
300 years ago your kind would be begging for their living outside Cripplegate.
Go out and buy a secondhand Reliant Robin Threewheeler. | Who Cares |
| 25-5-2008 | Andy it was refreshing to read your comments and to know that there are some rail company employees like yourself who want to make the experience for passengers a good one rather than a bad one. I hope I find myself travelling on one of your trains on a future date! | MikeP |
| 25-5-2008 | Hello!
Speaking from the perspective of a train guard, is there a possibility that they simply have not realised you were intending to board the train? I can understand that this was not a pleasant experience for you, but the fact of the matter is that a guard is under pressure to set the train ...more | Andy |
| 19-5-2008 | Bob sometimes that's not possible. It depends a fair amount of the time on what line, what carriages etc. etc. I've been on the receiving end of rail staff that don't give a damn as well. | Mark |
| 19-5-2008 | Surely you could have just got on the train on any carraige and walked along it? | Bob |
| 13-5-2008 | I've seen this kind of thing before as well and I'd say it's even more prevalent at stations in and around London. Some of them just don't give a damn about the passengers as long as they don't bother them, and that's if they can even speak English in the first place. There...more | Fed up with rude staff |
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