Are you satisfied with train services in the UK?

Satisfied

  • Yes

    Votes: 11 18.0%

  • No

    Votes: 37 60.7%

  • Look at you peasants using public transport

    Votes: 13 21.3%
  • Total voters
    61
  • Poll closed .
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Foot Long Hot Dog said:
They called it subsidy when it was still Govt owned mate.

Investing in transport infrastructure should be standard in an expanding economy like ours.
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Not been govt owned since the early 90's though (or somewhere along there), right?

Granted I was born in those times and there's a chance I know nothing specifically, just what I've heard and basing my knowledge off the meaning of subsidy lol
 
I buy in advance to save money, but if a game changes for tv etc.. i lose out on the tickets. It still saves a few bob in the long run.

What does wind me up is the utter extortionate pricing of parking at the stations though. Utter rip off.. worse than hospital parking charges most of them.
 

Just far too expensive and unreliable in my experience.

Even the slightest bit of bad weather causes havoc. It's amazing how countries with actual bad weather manage to have functional railway networks.
 
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The quality of the trains is poor. Virgin Manc - London is OK, but the cross-country ones (the company) are really mediocre. Two tables per carriage and a trolley on wheels selling rubbish. East-West services generally bobbins - the Liverpool-Norwich service crawls across the UK and the trains are mince.
However - reliability is decent IME. I probably take the London train a couple of times a month and it's never late, and if it is there's another one in 20 mins at rush hour. Wouldn't complain about the prices too much for the intercity stuff, either. Virgin are bending us all over, obv, but other than that it seems about right.
 

Just imagine if you bought a match ticket and there wasn't a seat for you you would stop buying but you still buy train tickets,no difference safety wise,and train tickets are dearer in most cases than football tickets
 
1. Privatised - so we have to pay for (numerous) CEOs a colossal salary from the ticket price
2. Hugely expensive tickets - dearer than any other form of transport anywhere in the world (apart from a sub orbital flight I suspect)
3. Filthy carriages
4. Packed carriages
5. Unreliable service / inflexible service
6. Funded MORE by the taxpayer now than they were when nationalised (see 1)
7. Used by the British public and their germs / noise.
8. Too slow
9. Not enough routes (Thanks Beeching)

So it's a no from me. Well done Thatcher.
 
Where they are still under some form of effective state control - Merseyrail, the London Overground, East Coast (before it was sold off to Virgin - they are of quite a high standard. There are also one or two good private companies running services on part of the network - Chiltern (who run the route out of Marylebone to Birmingham) are great, and the Wrexham and Shropshire Railway (which received no subsidy at all) was the best service in the country before unfair competition from Virgin killed it off.

As for the rest, in my experience Virgin are terrible, South West Trains and Southern tolerable at best, Great Northern alright.
 

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