I wouldn't commute Nodge to London but for quite some years ...

...I paid £3k+ a year for the "privilege" of standing on an overcrowded, late train every morning (rule of thumb: aim for the trains two trains before your train and you've a chance of getting to work on time...of course when you do all the trains run and you waste half an hour but what can you do). At least I'm reasonably tall so on hot days it was their faces in my armpits not the other way around; and on the way home I usually got a seat (not always, mind).

Some public services quite arguably should have been privatised. Rail is simply not one of them, and even if you're going to privatise it, to separate track from operations was just incredibly dumb.

Posted By: Old Man on January 4th 2018 at 13:24:58

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blimey a standard rail season ticket norwich to liv street = £8,164 (General Chat) - Tombs, Jan 4, 10:18:39
- I wouldn't commute Nodge to London but for quite some years ... (General Chat) - Old Man, Jan 4, 13:24:58
  - i'm no exspurt but wouldn't the train be fairly empty boarding at TFC? (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Jan 4, 13:30:13
    - Haha - this was Berks to London (General Chat) - Old Man, Jan 4, 13:36:56
      - Better a Berks than a Bucks (n/m) (General Chat) - Pixelman, Jan 4, 14:05:08
      - berking mad (General Chat) - Tombs, Jan 4, 13:41:56
- Holy cheese, Batman. (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Jan 4, 13:03:07
  - Just avoid Comic Sans (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Man, Jan 4, 13:21:08
    - Fontana Bass! (n/m) (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Jan 4, 13:45:18
    - ha ha (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 4, 13:25:28
  - i drove to wank in a landrover (General Chat) - Tombs, Jan 4, 13:07:34
    - I’ve been up the Wank more than once. (General Chat) - APB, Jan 4, 13:11:23
      - the people that live there are all wankers (General Chat) - Tombs, Jan 4, 13:24:39
      - Teeheehee! (n/m) (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Jan 4, 13:17:04
        
        I love it when a normal word in one language is rude in another. (General Chat) - APB, Jan 4, 13:18:33
        
        Oui. (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Jan 4, 13:25:07
- Annual season ticket price from Attleborough to Geneva? (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Jan 4, 12:20:01
  - Geneva is rubbish. An extra fiver gets you to Lausanne. Much nicer (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 4, 12:57:49
    - I've stayed in the hills near Evian more than once (General Chat) - Old Man, Jan 4, 13:27:38
      - swiss fuel is better for your engine timing (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Jan 4, 13:38:24
      - Expensed executives probably (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 4, 13:34:09
    - Annecy is nicer as well. (n/m) (General Chat) - APB, Jan 4, 13:14:11
      - Annecy Promotion Board (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Jan 4, 14:16:09
      - It is indeed. (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 4, 13:23:06
    - Can I only alight from the front two cooooches? (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Jan 4, 13:00:48
      - One. Is twinned with Brundall Gardens (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 4, 13:22:53
        
        Gateway to the ducks (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Jan 4, 13:26:57
  - dunt stop at geneva due to the convention (General Chat) - Tombs, Jan 4, 12:24:14
    - I’ve changed at Spooner Row before (my pants) (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Jan 4, 12:59:54
      - You're more of a ladler than a spooner. (n/m) (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Jan 4, 13:01:06
        
        More of a teaspooner these days , especially in the cold (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Jan 4, 13:26:10
- Railways in Europe are also massively subsided by the government (General Chat) - Duck, Jan 4, 11:05:40
  - Not sure the Swiss pay too much income tax though (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Jan 4, 12:19:13
    - No, but they pay through the nose for everything else. (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 4, 12:32:57
- Maybe people should live closer than 120 miles from where they work (n/m) (General Chat) - Ben, Jan 4, 11:02:00
  - Norman Tebbits fault, telling me to get on my bike all those years ago (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Jan 4, 18:47:03
  - Depends what you do. I’m freelance for example and can’t predict where the Work is (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 4, 11:17:17
  - Well that’s just a ridiculous thing to say. (n/m) (General Chat) - lurd, Jan 4, 11:03:45
    - There’s is a point to it though, partly (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Jan 4, 12:18:26
      - i'd rather live in switzerland than london tbf (General Chat) - Tombs, Jan 4, 12:33:55
        
        Bet they still have the proper Toblerones too. (General Chat) - bird table, Jan 4, 12:39:45
        
        was that due to brexit? (General Chat) - Tombs, Jan 4, 13:36:12
        
        Their kids do lessons on how to be polite. All seems rather fake TBH. (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 4, 12:42:32
        
        they fake politeness? (General Chat) - Tombs, Jan 4, 13:04:52
        
        Yes. It is trained robotically. Robo-merci (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 4, 13:24:44
        
        Robo-danke. Robo-grazie. (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Jan 4, 13:27:31
- About the same as that Switzerland price over here, and no restrictions on times either (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 4, 10:21:10

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