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You're giving me flashbacks to train commuting, I'm glad to see the back of that. Always late and towards the end they would just cancel the stop at the station I was getting on at or getting off at to get the train back on time when it reached London.
It wasn't long after I started using the train daily (which lasted for 11 years) that I was rushing to catch a train, not knowing that the train before mine was late and was the one at the station. I stupidly didn't check the screens and just got on. Well it was a high speed train that bypassed all stops before Luton. Luton train station was a real shit hole back then, probably still is now.
Now they have retried the old HSTs completely the service must be worse than ever, the 'new' class 222 trains that are still up to 18 years old are smaller, noisier, have no opening windows and the A/C is regularly broken. They have a 7-car length limit so they're often two trains joined together with no way to go between them, if your half happens to be full then tough luck.
It wasn't long after I started using the train daily (which lasted for 11 years) that I was rushing to catch a train, not knowing that the train before mine was late and was the one at the station. I stupidly didn't check the screens and just got on. Well it was a high speed train that bypassed all stops before Luton. Luton train station was a real shit hole back then, probably still is now.
Now they have retried the old HSTs completely the service must be worse than ever, the 'new' class 222 trains that are still up to 18 years old are smaller, noisier, have no opening windows and the A/C is regularly broken. They have a 7-car length limit so they're often two trains joined together with no way to go between them, if your half happens to be full then tough luck.