Just bought a Transit off Ebay and im going from Liverpool to North Camp in surrey on tuesday

TRAIN TICKET COST £ 55.00

 

cheaper to buy a shit car from the auctions for £20 and leave it down there.

 

free for me but id rather drive or fly!

 

Cheapest i found on the GNER website was 28 pound. Have to leave 10.15 gets you there at just before 3. Cheapest after that was 55 pound.

 

Cheers mate will try them now !!

 

What do you do on the railway then ?

Steve.

 

Know what you mean, going down to Cardiff on Fri to pick up the other halfs new ST2. Bloody trains nearly as dear as the car well not quite but not cheap!!

 

north camp is about 5 mins from me

lol not that that helps at all

 

that still came back 55 quid !!!!!

No Wonder no one use's public transport anymore !!!!!!

 

I know what you mean mate when I've gone the other way!

 

Strange i keep getting the cheap price

 

why do people complain about that being high price??? how much would it cost in petrol??? and you can sit back and relax

 

YIPPEEEE got it 28 quid sound mate cheers !!!

 

But uve got to get a taxi to the station and then either a bus or another taxi at the other end !!!!!!!!!!!

so it ends up nearer 70 quid

 

U bought the van from a garage ???

If so which one ?

 

no it was private mate !

 

Just wondering lol as i live just down the road, when you going to pick up the car ???

Might be able to sort u a lift from north camp station

 

around half 5 on tuesday, but the fella im dealing with said he'd pick me up cheers anyway mate !!

Ps its a silvery grey petrol swb transit if uve seen it about !

 

Why u getting a petrol van ???

 

makes 2 of us - I know how they are maintained and how shit the condition of the track is

25 ESR's of 20mph on the routes I work

 

1 im getting it pretty cheap
2 im told they are roughly the same as a 2.5diesel mpg wise
3 I need one for my job as ive gone self employed as a commercial and coach vehicle mechanic

plus thinking off building the odd track day car when it goes a bit quiet

 

100 % agree with you overpriced shit service i use them every other week following liverpool fc on away days absolute crap service 75% of the time Where as when ive used them on the continent its a huge improvement

 

thats brilliant - tar EVERYONE with the same fucking brush - cunt

I work my fucking arse off to give my customers an excellent service all the time. Its wankers like YOU who make me think "is it really worth all this hassle".

Before you next travel on a train, I suggest you sit back and take a look at what actually goes on behind the scenes. At ground level, you will probably have a go at the conductor of the train, when in actual fact, its the penpushing wankers in government who are fucking it up for the staff


rant over

 

The only time ive been on a worse rail system was when I was in Germany travelling from Wurzburg to Frankfurt to get the plane home 3 days before Xmas lets just say for a 3 hour train journey the train was that packed i was wedged stood up in a corner total nightmare

 

(SOAP BOX)

Its the same with a lot of jobs in this country the people who graft get the sh1t were the pen pushers dont realise cause theyve got there head so far stuck up there next promotion its un real !!!!!

 

kas 3dr

This I aggree with - but the general public who use public transport do not realise this, and scream and shout at the first person they see.

99% of passengers are fucking wankers. the other 1% don't get on trains

 

thats why I usaually dont go on them prefer to drive when i can.
these days I only go on a train if i cant get a lift to collect a car eg now or when I use to go to the NEC motor show so i could have a beer

 

dont get me started on train journeys - i dont blame it on the groundstaff tho - they normally do there best

they are overpriced and basically slow

i went to birmingham the night before ford fair - it took 4 hours to get from my house - to birmingham new street! via crewe and i got charged 28 quid for it

whereas if my car was working it would have easily done the 100 or so in 2 hours and for the following costs
£15.00 maximum cost of fuel
£02.40 days insurance
£00.52 road tax
£00.12 Days MOT

the only cost for my journey i cant calculate would be wear and tear - but this is a as and when, meaning the journey would have cost me a total of £18.04 by car, or the closer to the 40 quid on the train (when your bored with nothing to do they always bring that food trolley round with the stupidly high priced sandwiches and drinks, but u cant resist them cos ur soooo bored)

 

Turbo Jay wrote:
100 % agree with you overpriced shit service i use them every other week following liverpool fc on away days absolute crap service 75% of the time Where as when ive used them on the continent its a huge improvement

GRACELAND WROTE

thats brilliant - tar EVERYONE with the same fucking brush - cunt

I work my fucking arse off to give my customers an excellent service all the time. Its wankers like YOU who make me think "is it really worth all this hassle".

Before you next travel on a train, I suggest you sit back and take a look at what actually goes on behind the scenes. At ground level, you will probably have a go at the conductor of the train, when in actual fact, its the penpushing wankers in government who are fucking it up for the staff


rant over
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Only cunt round heres you with your shit im so important im a conductor attitude

The rail service at all levels in britain are wank FACT from the pen pushers to dick head conductors and drivers like you like he said 75% of the time the service is rubbish the other 25% of the time the service is ok

 

none on my section

 

we have the second best rail system in europe...fact

 

ESR's mean Emergency Speed Restrictions for those that don't know

Steve.

 

I know prices are high, but i bet its still cheaper than a taxi

Steve.

 

can't really see the point of having a go at the drivers/ conductors not exactly their fault is it? as usual its the freakin beancounters doing the damage - To be fair though , I used the train to pick my escos up from leeds when I bought it, Took me just over 2hrs from 15 miles outside Birmingham, to Leeds, and only cost me £25.
Only thing I could really moan about was the number of dickhead passengers on the train, the worst offenders being 2 pissed up cunts who were generally just being loud and offensive to anyone who would listen conductor told them a number of times to shut up but obviously he couldn't really run the risk of a fight with them, and one total prick who was having a go at the conductor because the carridge was hot- right in the middle of the July heatwave and in the early evening WTF is the poor bloke meant to do about it? strip the air-con pack in the middle of a journey? Oh and not forgetting the usual "talk as loud as humanly possible for as long as you can on your phone" bint

think that as usual, its the management letting the workers down

 

Exactly, I imagine it's quite a hard job to do in all fairness. I know I would have trouble keeping my temper under control at the end of a long shift, in a hot carriage, with a couple of wankers giving me abuse.

 

We have the largest rail network in europe - fact

 

and dont my legs know it....i patrol every day

 

There you go tarring passengers with the same brush! You are no better than someone criticising the service.

The British public transport system IMO is very good and more importantly safe especially compared with whats here.

 

saff_cossie


I know where you are coming from with my statement and your reply. But, do you have to deal with them? I know that most passengers are respectfull and know that sometimes we have a difficult job to do. Its the minority who are complete arseholes and make the whole travelling experience difficult for other passengers and the staff alike.

99% good people, 1% wankers

 

I wouldnt be that generous but defo not 99% wankers and 1% good who dont use the service.

I have seen dickheads abuse conductors who should be thrown off the train moving. When the public travel on a system where to certain suburbs gangs almost rule the carriages at night and the lights are blue neon to stop druggies find veins, then they will appreciate the system more in the UK.

I actually enjoy going by train when I come home and usually make a point of going to London on the drink as its safe and convienent.