Y's it called South West TRAINS? (South West Trains)

Member Name: Tubbyman

Product:	South West Trains
Date:	10/01/02 (153 review reads)
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Advantages: Don't get done for drink driving, Teaches patience and Humility

Disadvantages: Lots of South West, not much Trains

To start with I must apologise for the foul language that I shall use in this opinion. Ok, so I'll restrain the language but if I didn't then I would need to apologise.

Any company that make Virgin look good is in trouble. And SWT elevate virgin to heaven.

I commute from Egham to London pretty much daily. I haven't been on a train that was on time for about six months. The only good thing is that the previous train is often so delayed that you can normally catch that.

I went into my ticket office and asked for a timetable. The conversation went something like this:

'Hi, could I have a timetable please.'
Operator holds out a timetable.
'I shouldn't really give this to you.'
'Oh,' naieve boy askes 'why not?'
'You might think we should follow it.'
Straight from the horse's mouth. That's why they have bullet proof screens.

On another occasion I went in:

'Hi can I get a ticket please.'
'mmmm mmm mmmm'
'Sorry, I can't hear you.'
'mmm mmm mmm'
'Could you speak up, there's a train going by.'
'mmm mmm mmm'
'I'll walk.'

Add to that the fact that you can't get London travelcards before 9:15 (You have to buy a single ticket to zone one which costs £7.30 when the travelcard is £7.50) and you begin to see why I apologised for the swearing.

I won't mention the recent strikes because SWT are being very reasonable, offering 7.6%, but the RMT don't seem to think that's good enough. The drivers don't save lives but they've certainly got us by the balls.

At least SWT teach patience, either that or natural selection means that only those with patience or no appointments don't die of heart attacks.

Anyway, winge over, at least you don't get done for drink driving.

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