On 9/15/2015 5:59 PM, Theo Markettos wrote:
In uk.railway Someone Somewhere wrote:
Great - yet another train service clogged up by people who have the
luxury of planning things in advance.

Does HEx ever get 'clogged'?

Yes - it's often close to, if not, standing room only.

Seems like a cunning plan to lock people into paying long before they
discover there are better cheaper routes, and to prevent them making the
decision on the day.

That it might be.

At least they don't tie you to a given train. Though 6.99 one-way 90 days
in advance merely brings them into the land of 'sanely expensive'.

That it might be, but it's such a significant discount that it would be
annoying to rock up and pay the full fare only to get on to find the
train full of smug pensioners who had paid a mere pittance who would
normally go a different route to save money at a cost of time.

What is does do is destroy the case for taking the Heathrow Connect.

On 16/09/2015 07:26, Someone Somewhere wrote:
On 9/15/2015 5:59 PM, Theo Markettos wrote:
In uk.railway Someone Somewhere wrote:
Great - yet another train service clogged up by people who have the
luxury of planning things in advance.

Does HEx ever get 'clogged'?

Yes - it's often close to, if not, standing room only.

Seems like a cunning plan to lock people into paying long before they
discover there are better cheaper routes, and to prevent them making the
decision on the day.

That it might be.

At least they don't tie you to a given train. Though 6.99 one-way 90
days
in advance merely brings them into the land of 'sanely expensive'.

That it might be, but it's such a significant discount that it would be
annoying to rock up and pay the full fare only to get on to find the
train full of smug pensioners who had paid a mere pittance who would
normally go a different route to save money at a cost of time.

What is does do is destroy the case for taking the Heathrow Connect.


Funny that…

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Graeme Wall
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Someone Somewhere wrote:


That it might be, but it's such a significant discount that it would be
annoying to rock up and pay the full fare only to get on to find the
train full of smug pensioners who had paid a mere pittance who would
normally go a different route to save money at a cost of time.


Or maybe they'd just go the same route and pay more. In any case they don't
get reserved seats, so you've just got to beat them through the door when
the train arrives.

What is does do is destroy the case for taking the Heathrow Connect.


Heathrow Connect is intended (or was originally, at any rate) for local
traffic to the airport.


Anna Noyd-Dryver