howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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i need to get to folkestone 5 25 train
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Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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the buses are back to normal timetables today, must have gone that way.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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All this predicting problems on the worst case scenario of weather forecasts is getting out of hand, life has to go on, cancel at last option.
Audere est facere.
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,707
Generally the railways try to run a service wherever possible, however they can only run a service if Network Rail allow access to the track...
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Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
- Posts: 1,388
You can ignore the live departure board, it is total fiction. The taxi drivers have been taking loads of passengers to Dover Priory and then taking them home again as there have been none of the trains running as shown.
My family have just been down to catch the 1245 as shown on the live departures board only to be told nothing is running. When my sister-in-law queried this she was told that the live departures board had nothing to do with them! So much for the marvels of integration on the privatised railway. Nothing ran at all yesterday because the privatised rail operators would not have made money for their shareholders and have no requirement to offer a public service.
My family are now in a taxi to Ashford to catch the high speed from there.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
I thought the lines that were closed yesterday so Network Rail could work on them. Having seen the flooding around Maidstone area and heard about the power cuts I am not surprised the trains were not running, maybe because electricity and water do not mix.
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Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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No trains were scheduled on Southeastern on Boxing Day, apart from services on HS1. It was therefore a very good opportunity for Network Rail to carry out maintenance but this was not the reason that the trains were not running, it was a commercial decision on behalf of the shareholders.
The reason that trains were not running this morning was to allow the tracks to be checked after the overnight storm. My point was that one would think that something calling itself a Live Departures Board would therefore actually list Live Departures otherwise what is the point of having it? What it so difficult about such a simple job as listing what trains are running instead of saying that they are all running and having countless people turning up and finding that they are not? The train companies are constantly criticised for the dearth of information every time something goes wrong and it is inexplicable that they cannot get this simple requirement right in the information age.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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things started to go downhill soon after john joined up,not that i am saying it is all down to him though.
who is actually responsible for the live departure board online and what did the live departure boards at the station say?
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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thats privatisation for you
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Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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John joined over 40 years Howard that is a long down hill.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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only had to say it once john
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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it could be that john has a lot to answer to and wants to make his case.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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i await that then
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Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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no just a public servant like the rest of you,small cog in a big wheel
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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private servant
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