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Trains - AF (22nd Jun 2025 - 10:54:44) Anyone thinking of taking the trains at the moment be warned the new Nationalised SWR cannot cope with the heat. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday lots of delays, cancellations and general chaos.

Re: Trains - driver (22nd Jun 2025 - 23:04:40) Serves us right for using public transport when God created perfectly good cars with plenty of oil to power them, He gave us a major trunk road on our doorstep and even built us a tunnel and yet some people still disrespect Him by taking public transport!

Re: Trains - D (23rd Jun 2025 - 09:11:53) You're absolutely correct, driver. Mother Earth has been brewing oil for us for millions of years. Recycling all that rotting vegetable matter from the dawn of time, so that by the time us humans came along we have a plentiful power source to run our lives. Thank the Lord for oil, hallelujah brother!

Re: Trains - AF (23rd Jun 2025 - 16:26:35) Well I did the car idea on Sunday and not much better as the A3 was closed all weekend at the M25. So back to trains on Monday afternoon and I'm waiting at Liphook station for a train which is now 72 mins late. It so bad SWR are now advising people not to travel, which I will ignore and of course another delay will be submitted this evening.

Re: Trains - JBS (23rd Jun 2025 - 16:45:20) The current extensive disruptions across the whole SWR system are due to a points failure at Wimbledon. This is a Network Rail problem and therefore nothing to do with SWR. Earlier today there were two trees across the line between Woking and Portsmouth. Again, Not caused by SWR. Over the past week, many delays were caused by trains having to slow down when passing along overheated rails in the heat wave conditions. The various infrastructure 'owners', including the nationalised, have never spent enough money on the track and signals to completely allow for extremes of weather. You get what you (the passenger or taxpayer) pay for.

Re: Trains - fed up (23rd Jun 2025 - 17:25:43) i actually give up with this country... how do other countries manage to 'do' public transport so well, yet our system is an outdated, privatised, shambolic MESS?? it's less of a faff (and probably even quicker) to get to another country than another city within the uk at this point - unbelievable

Re: Trains - Paul (23rd Jun 2025 - 18:39:12) money goes on bonus and pay rise

Re: Trains - Si (23rd Jun 2025 - 21:10:47) and shareholders

Re: Trains - British Citizen (23rd Jun 2025 - 23:24:47) Throw into the mix the fatality at Horsham to add to the catalogue of mishaps today.

Re: Trains in Germany - Keith Birch (24th Jun 2025 - 19:23:08) Evidence shows the Deutesche Bahn is also far from perfect my colleagues had to change hotels as it didn’t arrive on time

Re: Trains - AF (24th Jun 2025 - 19:56:35) Si - SWR were nationalised last month so no shareholders!

Re: Trains - Ryan (24th Jun 2025 - 20:07:44) It has been rubbish ever since SWR lost the license (though almost as bad before - I use the trains to London and back almost everyday) However, you can't blame the government ment just yet. Its the same SWR trains, on the same track, the same SWR staff. It will take a long time yet for any changes to be made, if indeed anything is changed. Years and years of underinvestment are to blame, and you can bundle that in with so many other services, NHS, water supply, energy services, etc. I believe the term is shitifcation.

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