Personal rant: one of the first things they do if everything is delayed is run all the trains fast from HH to Brighton. They do this so they're not fined for late return services back out of Brighton, but it leaves those of us who live in Hassocks totally stuffed.
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Fef
Rock God.
- Feb 21, 2009
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Thus, once again proving that the railways are not run for the benefit of its passengers, but for the benefit of its shareholders.
ROSM
Well-known member
Needed your train out the way so the 5.57 to Brighton could pull in. We left at 6.05 so that will be a late one in especially at lost another 4 mins into east croydon
In the old days the 5.57 was the 6.03 and it was timetabled then (as now) to arrive at 7.08. Only in those days it did...
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Within PPM dear boy and that is all that counts
thedonkeycentrehalf
Retired
- Jul 7, 2003
- 8,646
They do the same thing on the coastway lines. Have recently encountered the Southampton to Brighton service running fast to Brighton from Barnham (missing out around half of the stops for the service) and also seen Victoria to Littlehampton services 'terminated' at Worthing so that they can get back to LA in time for the next journey up.
Since1982
Well-known member
Agree. And the new timetable is a shambles for Hassocks even when the trains are running normally.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,329
i read the turnout for the vote was 16%, with such apathy for a strike i wonder if there will be much notable difference.
I left the bicycle at home today and got the tram to and from work. Nothing extraordinary to report I'm afraid. The local sausage stall had run out of bread rolls by 7pm though.
Wouldn't happen in England
tedebear
Legal Alien
I have three days to lb at end of next week, so looking forward to this!
I am going to a gig tonight so I left the bicycle at home again and caught the tram. I missed the first one and had to wait 5 minutes for the next one.
Could happen in Cro*don
Hassocks has been shafted, the service is awful.
Coming back from London Vic there are 5 trains to Hassocks between 3pm & 6pm- Burgess Hill has 9, nearly twice as much.
Considering driving to Burgess Hill.....
This annoys me too, they'll be a problem with a Thameslink train so they'll run 04 past the hour and cancel the 07 past the hour. So passengers at Preston Park and Hassocks have to wait half an hour for the next train. If they'd have run the 07 then people at Brighton would only be disadvantaged by having to get a train that arrived 10 mins later (or they could have even got the 19 past to Victoria).
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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**** Hassocks, and Balcombe.
I think thats pretty decent for somewhere like Hassocks , especially when you consider in addition to the 5 direct trains you have a further 8 trains that only require 1 change, this ultimately puts less than 10 minutes on the direct train journey.
I take your point but that is far from shafted.
As other posters have said, the amount of times (this year alone) southern have run trains fast and skipped stations on route . . that to me is shafted and shows a total disregard for passengers needs. If they cant get passengers from A to B on time , the minimum they should provide is A to B.