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Topic ID 2632
26/03/2007 by Dell Boy
Engineering work - again
http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk/pages/default.aspx
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Reply ID 37997
27/03/2007 by wingnut
Major engineering work will be taking place on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays in April and May.
Services to most destinations will be affected and, where buses replace trains, journey times will be considerably extended. In general:
All day on every Saturday and Sunday between 31 March and 19 May, buses will replace trains between Alexandra Palace and Stevenage via Welwyn Garden City.
What a great incentive for families to travel via public transport, how many 'major' engineering works have there been!
Reply ID 37999
27/03/2007 by James007
No longer Hertford East then? Thank god for that.
Reply ID 38017
28/03/2007 by azzza
quote:
Originally posted by wingnut
Major engineering work will be taking place on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays in April and May.
Services to most destinations will be affected and, where buses replace trains, journey times will be considerably extended. In general:
All day on every Saturday and Sunday between 31 March and 19 May, buses will replace trains between Alexandra Palace and Stevenage via Welwyn Garden City.
What a great incentive for families to travel via public transport, how many 'major' engineering works have there been!
With an ever ageing system, engineering works are inevitable. I'm sure you would be up in arms if there were more accidents on the trains if this work wasn't carried out? .... This work has to be done sometime and it's obvious that it should be carried out at off-peak times.
Reply ID 38020
28/03/2007 by steven
Wouldn't that be overnight then?
Reply ID 38027
28/03/2007 by Andrew
quote:
Originally posted by steven
Wouldn't that be overnight then?
Problem is overnight is not very long for this work which involves redoing a lot of the overhead that was put up on the cheap when the east Coast mainLine was electrified. At the time it was the only way to finance it, but as with so many projects corner cutting rebounds some year's later and probably overall costs more than doing it right in the first place.
This timetable does mean that in may on a Saturday there will be an hourly service into London in the morning and about 5 trains an hour back from early afternoon onwards, as Hertford North will be a major railhead for train/coach connections to Stevenage and points north
Reply ID 38346
08/04/2007 by tsr
what a joke saturday,I knew there was only one train an hour but the queue to buy a ticket was outside the the station{welwyn line shut as well)..why they could not have another person selling tickets..
Reply ID 38414
11/04/2007 by 2929paul
They do have three ticket machines just inside the door
Reply ID 38439
11/04/2007 by tsr
2 had no change and I was not going to put a 20 pound note in the other
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