General Discussion
p.s. Hmm I see from the article that it wasn't quite as simple as I thought. As with many main airports Plymouth city has expanded to engulf it and so paid the price by throttling the options on its usage to zero. From a customer point of view, getting 'cheap flights' from provincial airports is quite a challenge. e.g. You don't get £15 Ryanair flights to Lisbon from Exeter but you can from ...
You are right, there were many who were very uncheerful. Reading around though feels as though there didn't seem to be an effective campaign to save it. And just to put a bit of a nail in the coffin no time has been wasted in making the secondary runway unusable due to the unseemly rush to profit from multi-million pound developments on the back of its demise. Neither Newquay or Exeter Airports ...
@Mrs C - sorry about my sceptical question, stems from a thread where i think people were asked if they use dawlish trains and there were a lot of very ambivalent answers, so good for you Train services are profitable from the summation of all the users so I am very pro absolutely every possible community having access to services. There are some very staggering blind spots in this respect. ...
@flo - commiserations - it seems that the ghost of mr crow lives on... Just as with the SW, buses are an alternative when trains foul-up, as long as you can actually get on one in a strike. Or a Boris bike perhaps? Worth keep checking travel updates, half the time these strikes are sabre rattling and get called off at the eleventh hour Also very often half the lines are kept open somehow in ...
I amazed that anyone can justify flying to London from Exeter in this supposedly new era of 'green considerations'. Yes Lynne, your thread flags up very well real typical situation of airports being so poorly connected (Gatwick excepted) by trains. Even LHR still only offers direct trains for travel eastward to London. And so again with Exeter, Cranbrook Station is only a very half hearted ...
Oh dear, an innocent enough question, and thanks for all the informative as well as the counselling answers!! @Stephen - Yes I think passengers are generally (and painfully) aware of connections not being guaranteed, which is why I was particularly impressed that the train manageress was going to all the trouble of checking from 400 passengers who was going to miss their connection and pledge a ...
Brill. very interesting, thanks Margaret. You obviously have your finger well on the pulse.
@Stephen - Thank you very much for that excellent update. @Everyone else above - Ha, Ha, Ha, yes I get it, Clive needs to 'get a life'. I know, just for a laugh, let's all go on a jolly to Newton Abbot on Sunday to greet all the holiday makers returning home by 'Train' from Cornwall after their relaxing Easter week and tell them to never mind their bus ride as it will only delay them by ...
Yes ok, I know that makes me sound like a 'rat race sad-o'. I remember a lecturer once quiping to us, "...now you have saved 5minutes, what are you going to do with it?!" The thing is that, as per my little tale above, for those folk on journeys to the far SW, say Newquay (never less than 5hrs even at the best of times), and which has optimistic 5 to 8 minute connections onto the branch line ...
Thanks Stephen
