The Truth Behind Traingate

Lots of tweets today from people standing up London to Edinburgh having paid £150 to Virgin for the privilege.

Bank holiday madness.

One example does not a case make anyhow.

Maybe they should have been booked a seat before setting off then. If you know your going to be travelling a long distance, surely you'd think ahead. It's a bank holiday weekend for heaven's sake, anyone who knowingly gets on a train without booking ahead is unlikely to get a seat.

How fast do you think rail studies work?

www.dft.gov.uk/rail-value-for-money

I said lots of tweets from people. That's not just one example.
Unfortunately lots of people have to travel London to Edinburgh over a bank holiday.

So if they know they're going to have to travel on a busy bank holiday...... BOOK A SEAT! Simples!

There are a lot of silly tweets as well and a very quick search showed tweets from people perfectly happy with their Virgin Train travel.

Biased, you, dj? Never.

Just seen a survey of people who should be thrown under a train, and the winner was those who said simples.

You are becoming incomprehensible, dj.

Sorry. I mean your tweets are.

And you take actual notice of a survey about people who should be thrown under trains?

Very odd.

"glad I paid £150 for train to Edinburgh to have luxury of no seat even though I booked 1, now standing all the way @virgintrains #TrainFail "

One of the tweets I saw.

It was on the same twitter feed, Baggs, Couldn't miss it.

By the way, I don't tweet.

Leaving the thread now.

We believe you saw such tweets, dj. That is not the issue. The issue is that those tweets prove nothing except that some passengers were unhappy. Unhappy with reason, I'm sure, but they were only some. There were also happy train travellers on Virgin Trains the same day. And daft ones too.

For some reason there are far more cars on the roads today compared to last Saturday

But rail passengers in Durham have reason to be happy, don't they? Virgin have spent a great deal of money extending the platform at Durham station by 40m so that the longer Azumi train (that has more carriages and therefore can carry more passengers) can stop at the station." This platform extension for the IEP at Durham is the latest in a series. It joins Paddington, Edinburgh Waverley , Newark Northgate, Grantham and a handful of others. More at www.ieptrain.co.uk".

No Baggs, of course durham didn't just see a survey about throwing people under a train! She just made made that up to slip in a little passive aggressive quip!

Getting quite daring with her digs these days - must be the weather...

Sailing close to the wind Ana!

...... BOOK A SEAT! Simples!

SOMEONE WHO THINKS THEY HAVE PAID QUITE ENOUGH FOR A SEAT IS OFTEN IN IT AND MAY NOT BE INCLINED TO MOVE.

THE TRAINS ARE OVERCROWDED. Simples

They prove no more but no less than your posts Baggs.

So if you've paid to reserve a seat, and someone else is sat in it, you politely ask them to move. If they refuse to move, the train manager will insist that they move. Even more simples! I struggle to understand why this is such a challenge to understand. None of you on here come across as shrinking violets, who recoil from confrontation, so why would asking someone who was sat in your reserved and paid for seat be such a problem?

Exactly, gg, but I'm not trying to prove anything. I'm expressing doubt that Virgin Trains are as rubbish as some people seem to think. I'm sure some Virgin Train journeys are awful. And I'm equally sure that some, possibly even most, are fine.

durhamjen
Your post @18.26. Your pacifist mask slipped again. It's not the first time either. Be careful, people might start to believe your not the non violent person you like to portray.
But did anyone, ever?