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No trains to/from Worthing to Brighton THIS Saturday (8th)



GolfingGull

GolfingGull

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Jul 21, 2013
587
Costa del Worthing
Engineering works mean that buses will replace trains between Worthing and Brighton this Saturday. One bus every half hour which will be full by the time it gets to Shoreham I would imagine. Rail website reckons a 45 min bus ride from Worthing to Brighton although Im sure it will take longer stopping at every station along the way, plus added Staurday & football traffic.

Looks like P&R for the first time then. Mill Road will be chocca by 1pm I assume?
 








brightn'ove

brightn'ove

cringe
Apr 12, 2011
9,137
London
GolfingGull said:
Engineering works mean that buses will replace trains between Worthing and Brighton this Saturday. One bus every half hour which will be full by the time it gets to Shoreham I would imagine. Rail website reckons a 45 min bus ride from Worthing to Brighton although Im sure it will take longer stopping at every station along the way, plus added Staurday & football traffic.

Looks like P&R for the first time then. Mill Road will be chocca by 1pm I assume?
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Mithras House. Mithras House. Mithras House!!!
 






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halbpro

Well-known member
Jan 25, 2012
2,862
Brighton
I think it's two buses every half hour, I imagine one slow one fast based on the journey times (43 mins vs 52 mins). Hopefully that's "services" though with more buses actually running.
 


perseus

perseus

Broad Blue & White stripe
Jul 5, 2003
23,456
Sūþseaxna
Bike or regular buses = 700
 






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Springal

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Feb 12, 2005
23,830
GOSBTS
KJP said:
Ridiculous, why not do it last weekend or the weekend after when there's no home game
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Railway maintenance is set YEARS in advance...
 




KJP

KJP

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Mar 2, 2011
2,407
Goring-by-Sea
Springal said:
Railway maintenance is set YEARS in advance...
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So why didn't the club try and switch the game, this will be an absolute disaster, they'll probably put 2 buses on per journey too, the trains are normally crowded once they get to worthing
 




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Springal

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Feb 12, 2005
23,830
GOSBTS
KJP said:
So why didn't the club try and switch the game, this will be an absolute disaster, they'll probably put 2 buses on per journey too, the trains are normally crowded once they get to worthing
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Because we get 1 swap game a year.. Which we use for Pride
 










Herr Tubthumper

Herr Tubthumper

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Jul 11, 2003
59,511
The Fatherland
Wouldn't happen in Germany.
 








Dick Head

Dick Head

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Jan 3, 2010
13,632
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German train strike leaves millions stranded

Reuters

By Madeline Chambers
BERLIN Sat Oct 18, 2014

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Passengers ask for information from a train driver of German railways, Deutsche Bahn (DB) at the railways station of the Cologne-Bonn airport October 18, 2014.

Millions of passengers were left stranded across Germany on Saturday after train drivers began a 50-hour strike that halted two thirds of long-distance trains in a dispute over pay and negotiation rights.

The GDL drivers' union started their action at 2 am on Saturday morning for passenger trains. They return to work on Monday morning. Freight train drivers started their strike 11 hours earlier on Friday afternoon.
The drivers' second national strike in a week hit at the start of week-long, half-term holidays in nearly half of Germany's 16 federal states.
Germans this week have also faced strikes by pilots at Lufthansa's Germanwings due to a long-running dispute over an early retirement scheme.
Railway operator Deutsche Bahn [DBN.UL] said about one third of long-distance trains were running and that it had introduced a replacement timetable to minimise disruption. It regretted the delays for passengers but blamed the union.
"This scale of strike action at such short notice is completely irresponsible and borders on the irrational," said Ulrich Weber, head of personnel at Deutsche Bahn to Bild daily, adding that the strike cost the firm at least 1 million euros ($1.3 million) per day.
GDL announced the strike on Friday.

The union is seeking a 5 percent pay rise for 20,000 drivers and a shortening of the work week to 37 hours from 39. Another central issue in the dispute is its demand to also set wage deals for around 17,000 train guards and other personnel, also among its members.
Deutsche Bahn, which says it will negotiate only with the larger EVG union for those categories of employees, made a new pay offer on Friday, but the union rejected it and said it would press ahead with the strike.
Local connections in Berlin and many other cities were also disrupted. Platforms in some stations were packed with people trying to rearrange their trips, many with luggage.
"This is making my trip very difficult," said Christine Hardtmann, a mother of two at Berlin station, holding tickets to go to Hanover. "Generally I have sympathy for strikes, but this one is very long and the timing is particularly bad."
 




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