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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The Cowboy said:
I use the c2c line, and whilst today is an unfortunate day to ask this question as they had chaos due to power line failure, they are a brilliantly run line. 95%+ punctuality, modern clean trains, good value vs other SE lines, loads of trains per hour. Couldn't be happier.

Was on a Virgin train from London to Birmingham at the weekend and that was also excellent; I've traveled that line tens of times over the years and rarely had a problem. Super quick too.

However, I know that other parts of the country fare much worse.

But I certainly wouldn't want my line re-nationalised. You wonder why the govt doesn't get the best lines to take over more of the poorer lines, the way TFL has been doing with the East Anglia routes.
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I use East Midlands Trains. My season ticket is a little short of £7000 but I have no complaints. Very rare that there are problems.
 


JordanianEmbassy said:
Have to admit whenever I've got a train recently they've run on time, so been well happy with that.

But far far too expensive (usually split my tickets as much as possible to save money but it still doesn't bring it down to a reasonable price).

http://www.bringbackbritishrail.org/
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The general complexity of the ticketing system really gets me down. On one hand, you've got the silly nonsense of 2 singles being cheaper than a return, then on my commuter line, a return being £1 more than a single. That's before you factor in peak, off peak, advance, super saver etc. I know they've tried to simplify it a bit recently but it's still a mess.
 
The Cowboy said:
The general complexity of the ticketing system really gets me down. On one hand, you've got the silly nonsense of 2 singles being cheaper than a return, then on my commuter line, a return being £1 more than a single. That's before you factor in peak, off peak, advance, super saver etc. I know they've tried to simplify it a bit recently but it's still a mess.
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Agree. Last journey I did should have been approx £80 for a day return. I bought 5 separate returns for the same journey (didn't have to get off the train as it went through all the same stations) and it cost me £61. (Still too expensive for a 3 hour journey)
 

Pienaar's gloves said:
It's a bit of an illusion that Merseyrail have more state ownership than others, it's a closed line but other than that it's operated by Serco and Abellio whom are also in partnership behind the Northern franchise. They just use the Merseytravel branding.
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I know (the Overground down here has a similar operating structure), what I said was that the state has a greater degree of control because of the nature of the relationship between Merseytravel (or TFL down here) and the firms running the services. It is much simpler, is more accountable and is much more efficient than the relationship between TFL and the franchise companies on the mainline, which is probably why both networks are relatively well liked and have plans to expand.
 
The Cowboy said:
The general complexity of the ticketing system really gets me down. On one hand, you've got the silly nonsense of 2 singles being cheaper than a return, then on my commuter line, a return being £1 more than a single. That's before you factor in peak, off peak, advance, super saver etc. I know they've tried to simplify it a bit recently but it's still a mess.
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true that,when it went private they said it was going to get easier,at the time there was only standard, cheap day, lower and higher saver,and first class,season ticket and the odd rover for a specific area/ time.
now if you put in say Liverpool to London you get 20 odd tickets before you even look at advance tickets online only, offers railcard discounts ect,bloody shambles
 

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