Yelled at during South Western Railway RMT Strike (...not by SWR) December 2019
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- SHOT DECEMBER 2019 AND MOVED FROM MY OLD CHANNEL:
Tried to record what it's like travelling by train in the UK, during the South Western Railway RMT Strike.
The strike is against SWR taking Guards off the trains - you know, those people who look after us and have families to feed - so the company removed a load of trains and charge me the same money.
The knock-on effect is that I have to pay extra, for a reduced service.
I try to find the joy in this... while travelling on a South Western Railway Class 450 to London Waterloo, Class 455 to Clapham Junction, London Overground Class 378, London Underground and Southern Railway Class 377 to Shepherds Bush/Milton Keynes.
What do you think?
Does part of you slightly miss the crush of 2019/2020?
Would love to hear your experiences in the comments below.
Sorry about the audio - the heavy rain didn't help. I've subtitled this video, if you want to click on the 'closed captions' button to get a better idea of what's being said!
0:00 Travelling on South Western Railway during the RMT Strike December 2019
1:40 Arriving at London Waterloo (paid extra fare) because no direct trains to Clapham Junction
4:50 Clapham Junction: delays via Shepherd's Bush on London Overground
7:55 Southern train via Shepherds Bush
8:55 Told off for filming at Shepherds Bush by someone with no uniform
11:55 Back to London Waterloo via Underground, more delays due to landslide at Guildford
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0:00 Travelling on South Western Railway during the RMT Strike December 2019
1:40 Arriving at London Waterloo (paid extra fare) because no direct trains to Clapham Junction
4:50 Clapham Junction: delays via Shepherd's Bush on London Overground
7:55 Southern train via Shepherds Bush
8:55 Told off for filming at Shepherds Bush by someone with no uniform
11:55 Back to London Waterloo via Underground, more delays due to landslide at Guildford
Very interesting video! I also commute with SWR and it is a pain sometimes
Keep rewatching this amazing
Thanks 313PEP! Really appreciate the kind comment.
Love the content, keep it up!
Thanks abstractgamer - really appreciate the kind comment!
Holy hell! Your production quality is amazing, I expected you to have 20 - 30k subs, yet 192. Your channel really deserves to pick up! Well done on the good work.
Thanks for the very kind message Hitchrest SFM!
Really appreciate it.
I should get some more videos up really but the commuting stopped during The Rona and I've hardly been back. I've been concentrating on my other channels and now wonder if I should move the family travel videos from there to here!
Anyway thanks for taking the time to leave a kind message.
@@neilstrains No worries and corona hit travel hard for everyone :)
I remember the landslide during the strike. We got to Waterloo to find all Portsmouth trains marked as 'Delayed' and minutes later every train marked 'Cancelled'. As a result of the strike timetable all Portsmouth trains via Eastleigh started at Basingstoke and not Waterloo. Whatsmore the timetabling was awful. We were directed onto the first train to Winchester that arrived 15 minutes after the Portsmouth train departed (and these are hourly trains). So we spent 45 minutes at Winchester. Then, the Portsmouth train arrived at Portsmouth Harbour on time, which was 2 minutes after the ferry was due to leave. So we spent 58 minutes at Portsmouth Harbour. In short, 1 of our trains was cancelled, the two replacement trains were on time. End result, delay repay claim of 2 hours! (approx £183.00)
Thanks for the kind comment, really appreciate it - My goodness, yep same here, done few too many of those journeys. Well done on the delay repay.
Please make more of these as a worker this cracks me up
Thanks for the very kind comment.
I know we never show it but we really appreciate your work.
Unfortunately I've stopped travelling and saving a fortune!
I'll get the camera out again soon and thanks again for the message
@@neilstrains thats okay lol we love when there’s trouble to be honest spices it up a bit but most of the time it’s network rails fault not ours so remember to take that into consideration hope u travel soon
Petersfield ?
Wow this video is getting some hate in the thumbs!
Don’t worry about it. You make great videos, probably SWR Bots 😂😂😂😂
Vinci is a cleaning company, they basically employed to clean stations and trains etc.
Also station supervisor + Vinci staff was incorrect, you can film on London Overground or any Network Rail station for personal use as long as it doesn't affect the running of any services and doesn't indirectly affect customers etc. Any professional filming has to be arranged with the operator and station staff.
Thanks so much for the kind message.
I was really thrown by zero Overground branding on the poor guy.
Anyway thanks again for the kind comment
2022 nothing has changed. just the date.
Thanks for the kind message Pro Painter Pro, really appreciate it!
Ack, sorry to hear this... it's like they dont want the passengers getting in the way.
I've stopped travelling now and saving a fortune!!
Anyway, thanks again
I've been ehr evince literal 4 subs
SWR management clearly don't care about fare paying passengers. The frontline SWR staff I have encountered are helpful and friendly but clearly not the bigwigs. The thing is if one needs to get from A to B and the route is served only by SWR you have to use them. As you prove they try and weasel out of paying delay repay that is rightfully owed and then when there is a strike they try and blame everything on that. Back in 2018 I had to use SWR daily for 12 weeks and I can easily count on one hand the number of times I got to my destination on time. Admittedly it was typically only about 5 minutes and didn't affect my day but still I payed to arrive at the advertised time not slightly late on a regular basis.
Thanks Alex! Alas too true, thanks for taking the time to leave a kind message
Their online delay repay is decent now but usually only because they're consistently awful. They were even delayed on my birthday one time, right treat.
Stupid London Overground
thanks for the kind comment!
@@neilstrains Np!