Anybody able to confirm if 'Nearly 1,400 new electric carriages' is good news or bad news? Certainly sounds like good news on the face of it, but if 'electric carriages' mean trains that run on these shitty overhead cables north of London then that's bad news. FCC seems to be a game of two...
Seems to recall that The Large One reported on here, either last Winter or the Winter before, that he and a couple of dozen random passengers got stranded on an evening broken down train with no toilets between Lewes and Brighton for about six hours. As memory serves, they had to, er...
Same, absolutely. They might be old, as the NSC trainspotters tell us, but they don't FEEL old, and they're invariably less crowded than Southern/FCC trains, particularly in the rush hour. OK, so some of them tend to get a bit bogged down at Gatwick while one lot of tourists dawdle off and then...