Arthur Figgis wrote:
wrote:

I made the journey FROM Harwich TO Liverpool Street. Was I expected
then to queue up at the ticket office and explain that I was seeking to
pay for a journey I had already made?

It can be worth trying it for the look of confusion you get :-)

Been there, done that, was more or less told to stop wasting their time.
Though this was Paddington rather than Liverpool Street. I'd travelled
from Hungerford without being able to pay anyone or anything anywhere.

I can't help feeling that the railways' financial problems would be a
great deal easier if they tried selling tickets to passengers.
--
Joyce Whitchurch, Stalybridge, UK
=================================
Old enough to remember ticket
collectors at stations

In article om,
() wrote:

"One" (can that really be the successor to the Great Eastern Railway?!)

The franchise operator's official name is "London Eastern Railway". They
just trade as 'one'.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

In article om,
() wrote:

"One" (can that really be the successor to the Great Eastern Railway?!)

The franchise operator's official name is "London Eastern Railway". They
just trade as 'one'.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Thanks, Colin.

Is that an acronym, or meant to stand for something? Like "A right
One", or "The One to avoid if you want to get home in time" or "One
load of inefficient train operators"?

Marc.

In article . com, () wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

In article om,
() wrote:

"One" (can that really be the successor to the Great Eastern
Railway?!)

The franchise operator's official name is "London Eastern
Railway". They just trade as 'one'.

Thanks, Colin.

Is that an acronym, or meant to stand for something? Like "A right
One", or "The One to avoid if you want to get home in time" or "One
load of inefficient train operators"?

I don't think it's an acronym. They obviously think we can't count much in Cambridge where we have a choice of routes to London run by 'one' and First.

--
Colin Rosenstie

On 9 Dec 2006 16:44:20 -0800, "
wrote:


Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

In article om,
() wrote:

"One" (can that really be the successor to the Great Eastern Railway?!)

The franchise operator's official name is "London Eastern Railway". They
just trade as 'one'.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Thanks, Colin.

Is that an acronym, or meant to stand for something? Like "A right
One", or "The One to avoid if you want to get home in time" or "One
load of inefficient train operators"?

It's designed to confuse people by announcements for "the 12:20 one
service to London".

wrote:
Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

In article om,
() wrote:

"One" (can that really be the successor to the Great Eastern
Railway?!)

The franchise operator's official name is "London Eastern
Railway". They just trade as 'one'.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Thanks, Colin.

Is that an acronym, or meant to stand for something? Like "A right
One", or "The One to avoid if you want to get home in time" or "One
load of inefficient train operators"?

When National Express took over the franchise in 2004, they said that
'one' stood for "Operated by National Express", as well as reflecting
the single management structure for all services from Liverpool Street.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

James Farrar wrote:
It's designed to confuse people by announcements for "the 12:20 one
service to London".

Similarly, "the last First service to Biggleswade," or "the First train
at 23:50 will be the last of the day."
--
Rob

In article , (Richard J.) wrote:

wrote:
Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

In article om,
() wrote:

"One" (can that really be the successor to the Great Eastern
Railway?!)

The franchise operator's official name is "London Eastern
Railway". They just trade as 'one'.

Thanks, Colin.

Is that an acronym, or meant to stand for something? Like "A right
One", or "The One to avoid if you want to get home in time" or
"One load of inefficient train operators"?

When National Express took over the franchise in 2004, they said
that 'one' stood for "Operated by National Express", as well as
reflecting the single management structure for all services from
Liverpool Street.

They never claimed that in Cambridge.

--
Colin Rosenstie

In article .com, (Rob Hamadi) wrote:

James Farrar wrote:
It's designed to confuse people by announcements for "the 12:20
one service to London".

Similarly, "the last First service to Biggleswade," or "the First
train at 23:50 will be the last of the day."

Except that the TOC in question is always referred to in announcements as First Capital Connect or on departure indicators as First Cap Connect.

--
Colin Rosenstie