FCC have thrown in the towel and are running a two trains an hour nearly
all stations slow service only. So, for once, journey times are faster to
and from Liverpool Street.

So I say, stuff FCC for their meanness (even with stock shortages they
could surely have found enough for an hourly fast service) and use NXEA's
cheaper fares, especially the Off Peak Travelcard.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 23/12/2010 16:48, wrote:
FCC have thrown in the towel and are running a two trains an hour nearly
all stations slow service only. So, for once, journey times are faster to
and from Liverpool Street.

So I say, stuff FCC for their meanness (even with stock shortages they
could surely have found enough for an hourly fast service) and use NXEA's
cheaper fares, especially the Off Peak Travelcard.

Thanks. I had a choice of going to Hull or Cambridge, and took Cambridge
as there are two routes... but I'm not relaxing until I actually get
there tomorrow!

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

On 23/12/2010 16:48, wrote:
FCC have thrown in the towel and are running a two trains an hour nearly
all stations slow service only. So, for once, journey times are faster to
and from Liverpool Street.

So I say, stuff FCC for their meanness (even with stock shortages they
could surely have found enough for an hourly fast service) and use NXEA's
cheaper fares, especially the Off Peak Travelcard.

Just before heading for the station this morning, they had four trains
in a row cancelled, so we ended up driving into London and getting a
Tube from East Finchley. Rubbish (FCC, not the Tube, which was perfect
today for us).

Jon

In article ,
(Jon Connell) wrote:

On 23/12/2010 16:48, wrote:
FCC have thrown in the towel and are running a two trains an hour
nearly all stations slow service only. So, for once, journey times are
faster to and from Liverpool Street.

So I say, stuff FCC for their meanness (even with stock shortages they
could surely have found enough for an hourly fast service) and use
NXEA's cheaper fares, especially the Off Peak Travelcard.

Just before heading for the station this morning, they had four
trains in a row cancelled, so we ended up driving into London and
getting a Tube from East Finchley. Rubbish (FCC, not the Tube,
which was perfect today for us).

Everything in the timetable was cancelled, replaced by trains at 08 and 38
minutes past each hour, timetabled to take 96 minutes to get to King's
Cross. As the schedule allows 20 minutes from Finsbury Park to King's
Cross, we were 15 minutes early this morning.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

wrote:
FCC have thrown in the towel and are running a two trains an hour
nearly all stations slow service only. So, for once, journey times
are faster to and from Liverpool Street.

So I say, stuff FCC for their meanness (even with stock shortages they
could surely have found enough for an hourly fast service) and use
NXEA's cheaper fares, especially the Off Peak Travelcard.

Thanks, Colin. I'm doing it in the opposite direction and had been intending
to go outward from Liverpool Street, from work, at lunchtime. However, I'm
now not going into work tomorrow and had been intending to go from KX, as
usual - perhaps I'll reconsider in the light of your information!

In article , (Jack
Taylor) wrote:

wrote:
FCC have thrown in the towel and are running a two trains an hour
nearly all stations slow service only. So, for once, journey times
are faster to and from Liverpool Street.

So I say, stuff FCC for their meanness (even with stock shortages they
could surely have found enough for an hourly fast service) and use
NXEA's cheaper fares, especially the Off Peak Travelcard.

Thanks, Colin. I'm doing it in the opposite direction and had been
intending to go outward from Liverpool Street, from work, at
lunchtime. However, I'm now not going into work tomorrow and had
been intending to go from KX, as usual - perhaps I'll reconsider in
the light of your information!

We aim to please! :-)

--
The compliments of the season to you all,

Colin Rosenstiel

In article ,
wrote:
Everything in the timetable was cancelled, replaced by trains at 08 and 38
minutes past each hour, timetabled to take 96 minutes to get to King's
Cross. As the schedule allows 20 minutes from Finsbury Park to King's
Cross, we were 15 minutes early this morning.

Was like that coming back from the Cross on Monday.

FFS, if Virgin can manage to cope with snowed-under North West England,
picking up stranded Manchester passengers at an unscheduled Crewe
stop, and still get in less than 5 minutes past the scheduled time, I
don't quite understand where the problems are here where there isn't a
foot-and-a-half of snow.

BTw, I heartily recommend Advance First tickets on Virgin for anyone
that needs to travel on that route ;-)
--
+ Cris Galletly +

In article ,
Ian Bidwell wrote:
But Virgin did not cope, they cancelled hourly trains to Manchester,
Birmingham and Chester/Holyhead all week.

Coped well enough to be only 5 minutes late into Euston despite having
made an unscheduled stop to pick up the passengers who should have
been on the services you mention.

In the same way Germany,Switzerland, Nederlands did not 'cope'

Coped well enough to get my housemates to Aachen and back last weekend.

I am *not* saying that there were no problems. But I do think FCC should
be able to do a bit better given how much less snow they are having to
accommodate compared to say Merseyrail, which I am frankly amazed managed
to run any service at all.
--
+ Cris Galletly +