Re: East London Line closure on 22 Dec 2007
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Re: East London Line closure on 22 Dec 2007         

Group: uk.transport.london · Group Profile
Author: Colin Rosenstiel
Date: Jan 3, 2007 04:50

In article <1167823469.610525.84040@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
timburford@onetel.net () wrote:
> Boltar wrote:
>> Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
>>
>>> In article
>> <1167761582.761382.306880@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>,
>>> boltar2003@yahoo.co.uk (Boltar) wrote:
>>>
>>>> FCC couldn't run the proverbial piss-up in a brewery without
>>>> the beer being delayed going by what they've done to Thameslink
>>>> and WAGN.
>>>
>>> As a regular user of the former WAGN part of FCC's franchise my
>>> experience since last April is that you are talking through
>>> your rear orifice.
>>
>> Oh look , its you again. Well as a regular user of Thameslink I
>> can say categorically that roughly 80%% of the southbound trains in
>> the morning rush hour are late. Some by more than 15 minutes. This
>> was not the case when the thameslink company ran it. And my last
>> experience of taking the WAGN service from finsbury park 2 months
>> back was not a pleasent one - overcrowded trains and late.
>
> Yup, we in Cambridge were certainly better off with WAGN than with
> First (and I use FGW too, so I can see the signs of the slippery
> slope).

Whatever a pain FCC are (and they are), poor timekeeping isn't one of
their major problems. They have continued the improvement started by WAGN
about a year ago.

--
Colin Rosenstiel
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