See above. Other than Pride and Brighton games, at a weekend, you can use the coastline from Southampton to Eastbourne and it is rarely busy.
Now you mention the other people using the service, they are even more inconvenienced because there won't be enough buses because of all the football...
Yeah of course, a London mainline you're unlikely to find a weekend you're not disturbing some major event.
We are talking the coast line though. Most of the time at a weekend the Brighton - Southampton lines are under used, I use it a lot at weekends as I sometimes watch Havant &...
Last weekend of the school holidays would suggest they don't give a crap about tourism either...
I know it's not as easy as saying 'why not next week', but why not next week FFS? :moo:
I wasn't suggesting for a second that works are not scheduled for a weekend avoiding disruption to commuters, I just would have thought that you would have a flag against lines serving Falmer to consider non match day dates for scheduling works i.e. an international break weekend. As easy10...
We must be their biggest single customer. For routes to the Amex, they have Saturdays throughout the year they know we won't have a home game including the international breaks to schedule works to key services to the Amex. Once fixtures are then published, they'll have a whole raft of other...
The following weekend is the international break with no engineering works planned. They are absolute idiots, as that could easily have been scheduled even if they didn't know our fixtures.