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If you're in Valencia in mid-March, you can't avoid Las Fallas merely by "not going". It comes to you.
http://www.valencia-cityguide.com/tourist-information/leisure/festivals/the-fallas.html
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*TRAIN NEWS* Brighton main line closed tomorrow
- Thread starter Ernest
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http://www.valencia-cityguide.com/tourist-information/leisure/festivals/the-fallas.html
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
The Groovy Gang are the dogs bollox
Once in a 250 years event, wrong snow, regular snow, leaves, "essential" maintenance....passengers are just sick of the excuses now whether they're justified or not.
TrevorDove
Member
Yes of course I appreciate they have to stop when a train passes - must be H&S stopping any sort of work within a 1 mile blast zone then.
As for the incompetence comment, you've missed the point. Incompetence is not keeping one of the busiest railway lines in the country open. A failure that will cost the economy and inconvenience thousands of people tomorrow.
As for other modes of transport - probably, but that doesn't make the NR failure right - or does it?
Hey, have you ever considered a career on the railways? This is the sort of out-of-the-box blue-sky radical thinking they need.
Tomatina is good fun as well.
Eagle Slayer
Active member
Providing I get to Brighton Station tomorrow afternoon/evening allowing a reasonable time will any trains be running from Brighton that stop off at Falmer ?
British Bulldog
The great escape
- Feb 6, 2006
- 10,896
I'm not missing the point at all, they've done everything they can to keep the line open but it's reached a point where it has become unsafe. It's not a failure or incompetence it's Network Rail doing the job they're supposed to be doing.
TrevorDove
Member
We could argue all night. I see it as failure, you see it as they've done everything they can. Either way, the trains won't run tomorrow.
Eagle Slayer
Active member
RustyTheSnowman
New member
Thanks Jimmy. Without wanting to tempt fate, seems like it should be OK then!
Dan Aitch
New member
- May 31, 2013
- 2,287
Southern trains website says:
This makes no sense to me at all.
Falmer will be busy tomorrow evening but they're withdrawing some of the trains that stop there to make room for others that don't. Also, trains to and from London won't stop at Falmer (so Southern told me on Twitter), meaning that anyone traveling to the game from Hayward's Heath and all points north of there will have to change at Lewes to get to Falmer, and so to make things easier when doing this, Southern are reducing the number of trains that go to Falmer from Lewes (i.e. cancelling some of the trains from Seaford).
Far-king brilliant.
Getting home will be even more fun, I'm sure.
This makes no sense to me at all.
Falmer will be busy tomorrow evening but they're withdrawing some of the trains that stop there to make room for others that don't. Also, trains to and from London won't stop at Falmer (so Southern told me on Twitter), meaning that anyone traveling to the game from Hayward's Heath and all points north of there will have to change at Lewes to get to Falmer, and so to make things easier when doing this, Southern are reducing the number of trains that go to Falmer from Lewes (i.e. cancelling some of the trains from Seaford).
Far-king brilliant.
Getting home will be even more fun, I'm sure.
Deadly Danson
Well-known member
For the one billionth time - it makes very little difference which railway companies run the train services (FCC excluded who are pretty hopeless), the infrastructure is Victorian and in need of billions and billions of pounds of investment that no one can afford and which would shut down the main line for months if not years. The flooding at Patcham is completely unavoidable - they have been working for weeks to try to stem the tide but there comes a point when it becomes impossible. The fact that an emergency timetable has been published should mean things run "relatively" smoothly tomorrow providing you work to that timetable and not the original one - it's when the TOCs try to keep running an normal service that things go pear shaped. And please don't accuse those track workers of laziness - they are out in all weathers and at all times of the day. And yes I drive for Southern - they do plenty wrong but the idiocy of some on here who insist on blaming them for every single problem - signal failure, landslides, flooding, fatalities, trespassers, trees on the line etc etc is beyond annoying and frankly beyond comprehension.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,315
you must have a very nice, but dull job that means that you'll never be impacted by situations beyond your control. some have to deal with what the world throws at us.
by removing the Seaford-Brighton trains, they create capacity for the London-Brighton trains including those from Haywards Heath. if they didnt, the trains wouldnt be able to come from HH, so you'd be snookered.
now we dont *know* they are or arent stopping at Falmer, but my guess is they will as they know they'll have hundreds of football fans.
TrevorDove
Member
Oh dear. And you must have a job on the railway, so dull, not nice and a complete lack of understanding of a customer service driven and commercial environment.
If we are making assumptions....
Train Spotter
Member
Where would you like the water pumped to then ? Your back garden seems like a good idea! Glad your driving , one less moaner on the train!
TrevorDove
Member
There are quite a few fields around, how about there?
I assume a usual Monday for you drivers sitting in some portacabin, scratching your bollocks, moaning about Thatcher watching Trisha whilst drinking endless cups of tea on full pay.
If I was in charge you would all be out there with mop and buckets! Lazy sods!
HawkTheSeagull
New member
Trains WILL be running to Falmer before and after the match tomorrow. I also expect London trains to stop at Falmer (short notice stop orders can be issued if needed).
If you come from the Mainline, you have to change at Brighton or Lewes anyway, so it makes no difference.
Of all the comments on this topic - this wins the most idiotic of them all, congratulations.