fucking national rail fucking website piece of shit

[kea]

after spending the best part of an entire morning working all that out, i'm now feeling rather dazed and extremely pissed off. i booked this holiday specifically because it was reachable easily on the train from london. now we've got to endure a nightmare route. i'm so fucked off.

incidentally, i've realised that it's only on weekends that the trains are suspended from preston. so theoretically i could take 2 half days and we could get the train to penrith on the friday, stay at a b&b overnight, and then at the end of the holiday stay at a b&b saturday and sunday nights. but that would cost a lot more

 

[kea]

uhh, fraid not - that's Carnforth:
'Brief Encounter is not the tearoom featured in the Trevor Howard/Celia Johnson film, that is at Carnforth, in Lancashire. '
http://www.briefencounterlangwathby.co.uk/history.htm

oh, well someone needs to tell the people who do the longwathby website that!!

 

[davesgcr]

If there is no train running - then there will be a connecting bus north from Preston - usually a mix of a stopping bus - and an express bus.Details may not be issued yet - but if they have sold you a ticket - then they have to get you there in a reasonable manner.

There have been problems in meeting the 12 week deadline for inputting altered timetable data to the website. Thats Network Rails task ....

 

[kea]

just spoken to my mother. she INSISTS there's a bus from preston to keswick direct, which is fast. i've just done a google and it turns out she means ribble buses' x8 service. which was taken over by stagecoach some while back. can anyone guess what happened next?

 

[moose]

Remind me again why people outside London have cars?

If you have time, go and see the ostriches - they're great!

 

[oneflewover]

oh, well someone needs to tell the people who do the longwathby website that!!

They know.

"Brief Encounter is not the tearoom featured in the Trevor Howard/Celia Johnson film, that is at Carnforth, in Lancashire."