itzdrk Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 3 hours ago, TheScarf said: The lack of carriages leaving Inverness going south is a joke. 2 on the Inverness to Edinburgh train. On what planet is that enough? The Glasgow Central to Ardrossan train we got at rush hour later on in the day had 6 carriages and about 17 people on the whole train. We take a row of seats each down in Ayrshire. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 (edited) On 06/04/2019 at 13:45, welshbairn said: Isolation from smelly working class types. This is all it really comes down to, although they put a flappy purple thing over the head-rest and offer a weak cup of tea to make it look superior. That and maybe a Scotsman newspaper worth a monster £1.50. I used to get free upgrades to First Class at weekends and never bothered as there was nothing really to be gained other than secluded silence. Table and seat sizes are no different to the rest of the train. Would be great to treat the First Class section as a creche, buying one's self a standard ticket to stand one side of the door whilst keeping a watching eye on the kids through the glass as they blast out Peppa Pig on their tablets through there instead. Edited April 8, 2019 by Hedgecutter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Scotrail used to do advance tickets for First Class for £10. However it looks like they've canned those and the cheapest advance ticket you can get for First Class now is £45 which, as mentioned above, is a piss take for what you get. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 That and maybe a Scotsman newspaper worth a monster £1.50. The most expensive bit of bogroll in Christendom. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 4 hours ago, virginton said: If you wanted a better train service then you shouldn’t have chosen to live in an irrelevant teuchter outpost tbh. ^^^Scotrail Director of Communication 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginaro Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 8 hours ago, TheScarf said: The lack of carriages leaving Inverness going south is a joke. 2 on the Inverness to Edinburgh train. On what planet is that enough? The Glasgow Central to Ardrossan train we got at rush hour later on in the day had 6 carriages and about 17 people on the whole train. Not a lot Scotrail can do about that whilst they train drivers/crew on the HSTs and wait for more refurbished trains to arrive (only got 3/26 of them so far). They're using some unrefurbished HSTs to make up some of the numbers. Think they are more likely to be seen on between Edinburgh and Aberdeen though. On 06/04/2019 at 13:39, Fuctifano said: Is there a worst first class service in the world than scotrail. I sometimes use it if I book an lner ticket from Glasgow down the East Coast so I'm entitled to use it from Queen Street to Waverley before getting the lner train. You get a biscuit and a cup of tea or coffee, you can't even get an irn bru or coca cola never mind a beer. You get power sockets and free WiFi in standard so you're paying twice the price (if you're going Glasgow to Edinburgh alone) for what? Compare that to LNER where you get leather reclining seats, food on proper plates with metal cutlery and drinks included and it's mental. On a shortish journey like Glasgow to Edinburgh first class is just to stay away from the plebs, but on the refurbished HSTs there are better seats and a better complementary food/drink offering. Never going to be as good values for money as LNER unless they drop prices to encourage people into first class. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superbigal Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Any Scotrail riders suffered with a train running out of Diesel or crashing into the platform buffers ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 48 minutes ago, superbigal said: Any Scotrail riders suffered with a train running out of Diesel or crashing into the platform buffers ? Nope never have you got your whiplash claim in yet? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooky Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 Waiting on the 21:25 Stirling to Glasgow the other night. ScotRail app said platform 6. Board at front of station said platform 6. Screen above platform 6 said platform 6.21:23 and the train pulls up at, yup, platform 9. No announcement. Giving the 20 or so people waiting roughly 2 minutes to run across the single-file, makeshift bridge that is currently there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Rover Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 6 hours ago, Sooky said: Waiting on the 21:25 Stirling to Glasgow the other night. ScotRail app said platform 6. Board at front of station said platform 6. Screen above platform 6 said platform 6. 21:23 and the train pulls up at, yup, platform 9. No announcement. Giving the 20 or so people waiting roughly 2 minutes to run across the single-file, makeshift bridge that is currently there. Did that mean also that it was the slow train instead of the nonstop? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooky Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Did that mean also that it was the slow train instead of the nonstop? Aye. Came from Alloa, I think. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Rover Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 2 hours ago, Sooky said: Aye. Came from Alloa, I think. I had a similar experience a few months ago. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 (edited) Currently on the Inverness to Glasgow service. Both toilets have packed in due to.....too many passengers! They have suggested Any one who needs the toilett disembark at Stirling and take their bags with them to get the next train. Edited April 12, 2019 by HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 Currently on the Inverness to Glasgow service. Both toilets have packed in due to.....too many passengers! They have suggested Any one who needs the toilett disembark at Stirling and take their bags with them to get the next train. The last time I used the Scotrail Inverness to Glasgow service the same thing happened. It’s almost as if Scotrail are fucking incompetent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 Currently on the Inverness to Glasgow service. Both toilets have packed in due to.....too many passengers! They have suggested Any one who needs the toilett disembark at Stirling and take their bags with them to get the next train. Thats almost funny, and completely unsurprising 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gannonball Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 On 10/04/2019 at 12:18, Sooky said: Waiting on the 21:25 Stirling to Glasgow the other night. ScotRail app said platform 6. Board at front of station said platform 6. Screen above platform 6 said platform 6. 21:23 and the train pulls up at, yup, platform 9. No announcement. Giving the 20 or so people waiting roughly 2 minutes to run across the single-file, makeshift bridge that is currently there. Might have already posted this a while ago but was getting train from Edinburgh to Stirling and was on it early doors with quite a lot of tourists. Anyway the time came to depart and the front two coaches fucked off without us, looked a the platform screen and seen it had been changed to front two coaches only. I went to complain to member of staff saying there is still people waiting on coaches to depart unaware of the change. She sarcastically ‘well we did put a tannoy out’, I replied saying it would have been handy if you put in the actual train we were on too. She just rolled her eyes and fucked off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 3 hours ago, gannonball said: Might have already posted this a while ago but was getting train from Edinburgh to Stirling and was on it early doors with quite a lot of tourists. Anyway the time came to depart and the front two coaches fucked off without us, looked a the platform screen and seen it had been changed to front two coaches only. I went to complain to member of staff saying there is still people waiting on coaches to depart unaware of the change. She sarcastically ‘well we did put a tannoy out’, I replied saying it would have been handy if you put in the actual train we were on too. She just rolled her eyes and fucked off. Should have telt the silly bint that Tannoy is a brand name, she should have said Public Adress System. It's like people who say Hoover instead of Vacume Cleaner. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 (edited) 7 hours ago, Boghead ranter said: Stunned they haven't deleted that Tweet. ETA: Edited May 9, 2019 by RiG 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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