TweetToday, a woman from the Women’s Institute of Tutshill, Gloucestershire, made a wonderful protest outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster by sitting in a bath of milk. The protest was about the declining price of milk (down now only to 18p per litre for the dairy farmer from 24.5p ten years ago). We only [...]
Archive | January, 2007
First Great Western debated in Parliament
TweetEd Vaizey, Conservative MP for Wantage managed to secure a parliamentary debate on First Great Western’s questionable service. While many MPs who have been petitioned by their constituents were not present at the debate, at least this is a start. Whether there will be a finish I do not know. My MP, Robert Key (Conservative) [...]
Packed trains are safer
Tweet…according to Rail Chiefs. It’s weird how it’s ok for trains to be over-crowded but not cars or planes…
FGW Vision
TweetThis is First Great Western’s Vision for their company:- “Our vision is to be the leading train company and our customers’ preferred choice of travel. Our people, through their passion, energy and commitment, will provide customers and communities with travel that is safe, reliable and enjoyable.” Preferred choice? Can any tell me what choice there [...]
Robbing Peter to pay Paul
TweetCornwall lost services on two of its branch lines for an entire week to salve the cuts made in the Bristol area. They said it was only for a week, but is this not setting a bad precedent? The cuts and bad service I have been discussing seem to be the product of badly written [...]
Express your frustration at the railways
TweetIf you want to be part of the discussions about the state of the railways, why not particupate in the User Forum of the Save the Train campaign.
Help us save the trains
TweetYou may have heard or read about the recent cuts made to services on First Great Western’s network in South West England. This has affected my journeys to and from Salisbury and Southampton with many services cancelled or severely delayed. I reported my disappointment to Salisbury Journal who covered the story as Rail Passenger Fury [...]
0870 phone rip-off
TweetThere’s no eloquent way of putting this but are you fed-up of being kept on hold on an expensive non-geographic 0870 number usually waiting to complain about something that isn’t your fault and being made to pay for the pleasure? The reason the cost of these phone calls is so much higher than normal calls [...]
My aristocratic title (var. peculiar)
Tweet My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Very Lady Tehmina the Antique of Giggleswick under Table Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title There are more important things to be blogging about. I will get onto these soon, she says with uncharacteristic certainty.
