To First Great Western Rail, may I just say that I have been forced into using your trains for just over six months now and must say I have generally been nothing short of being thoroughly underwhelmed by your service. However your recent timetable rearrangements are nothing short of bizarre, inconvenient and devastatingly dumb.
You are not allowed to announce with great pride that your new timetable provides a greater number of services. Your new timetable only provides a greater number of services because you have decided to stop them at every fucking station along the way. And because you have ancient relic piece of shit trains that accelerate and brake about as speedily as an asthmatic snail; this means that the journey into London now takes even longer than it did with your previously (slightly less) appalling service.
Add to this that you now appear to have made all the trains even smaller so they are even more crowded and everyone is forced to smell even more of their neighbours stinky armpits than before. Seriously, at what point did you think that any mainline service between London and Reading was going to comfortably accommodate everyone from all the stations you now kindly stop at when it only has two carriages?
This is of course assuming that the train fucking works. Lest I not go into detail about how you imprisoned myself and an array of other hapless passengers on one of your delightfully shit trains when it decided to break down half way between Maidenhead and Taplow and you left us stranded in the middle of nowhere for three hours with no apology and no compenstaion.
And a further thing, on what basis do you consider it acceptable to cancel my train because of 'stock shortages.' I presume this means you ran out of trains? Seriously how can you fucking run out of trains? What did you tuck it up in the shed last night and get there this morning to find it had magically disappeared overnight?
And I say tuck it up at night because quite clearly you are no longer operating any kind of late night service. One of the few redeeming virtues of your old timetable was that I could get out of London at 2 o'clock in the morning. Now there's no chance of that, I have to sit on yet another of your slow trains having enjoyed my last drink at midnight.
So First Great Western Rail, can you confirm for me whether you are in fact running a train company or are you running a fucking circus. Should I expect the 08:15 to roll in next week being towed by an elephant, or perhaps the 17:36 won't actually be a train, perhaps it will be a baboon, or a chocolate teapot or something else equally pointless.
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Wow - you sound pissed dude. If it makes you feel any better the "Transpennine Express" turns out to be an oxymoron ;-)
I must add to this delight. Another oxymoron is the 'Quiet Zone' on CrossCountry services. I'll leave it there before I fall into a trademark rant. As someone who has travelled on FGW on the "High Speed Trains" from Bath/Bristol to Paddington I must say how delightful it is to travel all the way to London. No sarcasm there. But as for local services (Oxford-everywhere-London the next day & Bath-Bristol) it is a fucking joke. Not only do the trains offer a trolley service that would be better suited at a retirement home, it also offers the fresh smell of one too. Dog hairs aplenty, free biscuits from the vestibule areas (pre-crushed into the floor), windows taped shut to save FGW money and piss passengers off when the 400th passenger gets on into the 120 capacity carriage. It is truly remarkable that railways have lasted this long. Especially in this area of Bath & Bristol. Isambard Kingdom Brunel country. Oh yes, he'd love to have a free biscuit on the train from Bristol Temple Meads to Bath Spa.
a company run by regards ....I wonder how they manage to breath and fuck things up simultaneously. Arse
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