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February 27, 2008 - 05:55 PM
David Barrett
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In Lincolnshire, Stagecoach are the principal bus operator. Could it be that their Lincolnshire train services will suffer as a result of this? Where were the Monopolies and Mergers Commission on this matter?
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February 23, 2008 - 10:08 AM
John Howard
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At least the Sunday service seems more reliable.
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February 23, 2008 - 10:07 AM
Susan Kelly
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It is still early days for EMT but things are not quite right. Perhaps people could write to the DFT or their MP to help EMT get back some of the newer rolling stock which used to be in the Nottingham area? The fact that EMT have older trains is NOT entirely their own fault.
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February 18, 2008 - 09:44 AM
Peter M
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I have concerns that EMT (Stagecoach) will concentrate on the London services where it can make money and will have a “sod everything else” attitude. The fares are ludicrously high now both on the former Central Trains parts and also on the former MML parts.
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February 16, 2008 - 11:21 PM
davis
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The new East Midland Trains company (Stagecoach) have taken the train service to an all time low.
The East Midlands has the oldest train stock in the entire country. We are seeing services with much fewer carriages on all the old Central Train services with considerably more overcrowding.
Their flag ship route (Norwich to Liverpool) often runs with only two carriages and always on Saturday Morning when the train is severely over crowded.
Even the Nottingham to Skegness service is run with one carriage on a busy Saturday afternoon, causing misery for the unfortunate passenger travelling on a crowded train.
In all the recent years I’ve travelled to Skegness I’ve never seen a single carriage used on that rout on a Saturday until now. How can that be right?.
Why do we have to put up with this retrograde service?. We were promised better service, better trains, Ect… but the reality is they delivered nothing but the opposite to what was promised.
Stagecoach are rubbish, and they should give up the franchise to a company that take their customers seriously and deliver a decent railway service.
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February 12, 2008 - 12:46 PM
David Barrett
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2008/9 Draft Timtable propopses a similar service between Newark/Lincoln and Grimsby/Cleethorpes to that which already exists ie. no early or late services on a Saturday, no trains beyond Grimsby Town on Saturdays (only the early and late trains do so and run Sats. excepted). The times at Lincoln are inconvenient for both work and leisure yet the route itself is the fastest in terms of line speeds and shortest link between much of Northern Lincolnshire and the Midlands/ South. Why do EMT, like the operator that they have taken over from seem to have not gasped this?
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February 06, 2008 - 03:01 PM
Mike Kent
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Is TWEM going to press to get some of the new carriages ordered by the DfT?
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January 21, 2008 - 05:08 PM
Placed by TW East Mids
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Trains on East Midlands Trains "Connect" services are in an appalling condition and whilst to be fair to EMT, they’re making the best of a bad job, that’s no consolation to passengers paying higher fares for an unacceptable service.
Government in the shape of DfT decided the split of the former Central Trains stock.... Turbostars going to CrossCountry or London Midland.... and EMT were left from day 1 with the residue, plus whatever they could bring in from around the country.
EMT say that they plan to thoroughly overhaul and refurbish all their Sprinter units (classes 153/156/158) commencing in March and until then are trying to get them working reasonably well. The parent Stagecoach Group has a good record for both rolling stock reliability and cleanliness, the South West Trains Class 158 units based at Salisbury are the most reliable diesel units in the country. The two borrowed South West trains, on the Norwich-Liverpool service demonstrate the standards we should expect, when the upgrade is done.
EMT must give the highest priority to overcoming these failings. For our part TravelWatch East Midlands is monitoring the situation and will continue to press for early delivery of the necessary improvements
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January 21, 2008 - 11:03 AM
John Clayton
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I think the comment below is perhaps a bit harsh. To some extent EMT have been forced to release the newer trains to other TOCs. However, I would agree that the East Midlands and particularly Nottingham has ended up with some of the oldest trains currently in service. BUT other parts of the Stagecoach group (who run EMT) do have some very nice stock. It is still early days, but I hope that organisations like TravelWatch and the Campaign for Better Transport (former T2000) will press for newer stock for EMT
On the positive side, Sunday services are much more reliable than they were under Central Trains.
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January 15, 2008 - 08:36 PM
Freed Turner
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East Midlands Trains have turned out to be a nightmare, they use really old trains from acquired from some scrap yard just before they were going to be crushed and put them on to our railway services.
Of course i refer to the old Central Train routes. I know that Central Trains were far from perfect but they make this lot look bad. All the services i use are worse, really old trains that feel like they are about to fall apart and always two carrages even on one of their flag ship routes at busy times. They know there is serious overcrowding but refuse to sort out the problem and hope that we just clear off and get one of their buses, o no, what have i said, never thought of the connection.
Very fed up rail traveler.
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December 13, 2007 - 08:55 AM
Simon Moore
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EMT seem to have given us older, slower and shorter trains for which we will have to pay more for...
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December 01, 2007 - 11:20 AM
Ben Clark
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There are still cheap deals available. £16.00 return. I know of someone who has just booked his wife and daughter a trip to London for £36.00 for the two return. Use thetrainline.com, often two singles are cheaper than a return
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November 29, 2007 - 11:05 AM
Nigel
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Any chance that the new franchise can sort out the overcrowding on the Oakham to Leicester line. My wife travels into Leicester rather than taking the car but is forced often to stand on the 08-10 in and the 16:20 back to Oakham till Melton and forget even getting on the 17-20.
More coaches and perhaps 1/2 hr service at both peak times would be nice utopia but if they are serious about using public transport. It is still quicker and cheaper to take the car in and park it than use the train and a better experience!
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November 28, 2007 - 01:36 PM
Mary Ellings
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I hope that the Cafes on the rebuilt Derby station will concentrate on providing Fairtrade products
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November 06, 2007 - 09:44 AM
David Halton
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I see that East Midlands Trans will be introducing some new ideas on ticketing. E.g. the £1 ticket and other flexible options.
This is just what is needed to encourage people away from their cars and is an intelligent way of spreading and predicting loads. The ideas on revenue protection should be welcomed too. Anything which stops fare evasion is beneficial to those of us who are honest and pay the appropriate fare.
Rail will win when it is seen as the best option.
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October 29, 2007 - 12:11 PM
Beeston Commuter
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Your Train Cancelled
Stagecoach will take over the franchise for the train service from Beeston to Leicester & London next month. They have just published their draft timetable which suggests a nuumber of trains form Beeston will be cancelled.
The affected trains seem to be:
Beeston d Leicester a St Pancras a
06:13 06:34 08:06 CANCELLED
07:36 07:55 09:12 CANCELLED
08:34 08:34 10:19 CANCELLED
St Pancras d Leicester d. Beeston a
15:55 17:13 17:38 CANCELLED
21:00 22:24 22:45 CANCELLED
21:30 22:56 23:19 CANCELLED
22:00 23:30 00:01 CANCELLED
This reduces the number of trains to the capital departing before 09:00
from 6 to 3. It also means the last direct train to Beeston leaves St
Pancras at 20:30. As small consolation there is an additional later
train from Beeston to London at 21:05.
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October 15, 2007 - 09:58 AM
Eric Meyers
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Congestion charging seems to work in London does it not? Why would in not work elsewhere?
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October 03, 2007 - 09:15 AM
Michael Brakespear
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Adding to Roger B below, it seems that National Government CAN supply the funding for schemes such as widening the M1 – and often without any public enquiry. I am told this scheme is costing £13million per mile (or more).
And surely "improving" the A453 will bring faster transit times for road vehicles to the edge of Nottingham but will only add to the congestion around Clifton/Clifton Bridge and elsewhere in Nottingham. Oh yes we can build another road crossing of the River Trent, but the expenditure required for this maybe similar to the cost of NET extensions. Yes the sooner NET is extended the better. Why can’t it go to ALL areas of Nottingham PLEASE?
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October 02, 2007 - 11:58 PM
Roger Bacon
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It is essential that Nottingham builds a modern, high capacity and frequent rapid transit system (NET) to cope with the growing numbers of people who wish to travel within it. The car by comparison is an inefficient method of transport, usually carrying only 1 person and clearly there isn't enough room on the roads or space for parking. Congestion is leading to aggressive driving and increased risk taking. THE CURRENT CAR SYSTEM ISN'T WORKING.
National Government in the UK is unable to provide all the funding for the public schemes that are needed and so sensibly some finance should be found from local sources, including those who use the roads.
Work place parking charges should be targeted on the routes/areas where the NET does or will operate in the future and will provide the opportunity to use a modern public transport system that has already proved it can get drivers out of their cars.
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October 01, 2007 - 03:15 PM
Richard Lee
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I wonder if John Bates below has really researched to see what public transport is available in his area? People often say this and I find, that when challenged they can be completely unaware of what is available in their area. I once found someone who had a bus stop almost outside their house but did not know where the bus went to. It was a fairly frequent service too!
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