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Recumbent causes rider to miss train...

 
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Old 09-01.-2005, 03:49 AM   #16
Al C-F
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Default Re: Recumbent causes rider to miss train...

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 15:11:10 +0000, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
<uce@ftc.gov> wrote:

>
>>>It's the result of the new timetable - my train is now four minutes
>>>earlier in the mornings, and my morning routine has not yet caught up
>>>- it means leaving the house slightly before, rather than slightly
>>>after, a quarter to eight.

>
>>Similar problem here. Train now leaves at 7:55 not 8:05. Have yet to
>>catch it. Have spent twenty minutes waiting for next train every time
>>so far.

>
>It's not so bad for me - there's a 7:58 from platform 8 (which is
>coincidentally both the time and the platform of the old train) but it
>stops at every lamp-post so I prefer the slightly earlier one which is
>direct. And one of these days I'll get a Brompton so I can catch the
>8ish from Platform 4 which is an express.


The problem is that to buy a ticket and get the 7:55, I need to leave
the house at about 7:00, which seems (to me) to be so much earlier.

The alternative is a five minute walk to the local station to get the
7:55 - but then I wouldn't get a bike ride.
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