-
Victoria Road
Commuters feel the squeeze
Surbiton officially named London's most packed trains.
Figures released by the Department for Transport show the 8:02am Waterloo train which runs through Surbiton had 318 passengers over seating capacity crammed on to its eight carriages when measured last autumn - making it the most overcrowded train measured in the London commute.
A spokesman for South West Trains said the company had increased the 8:02am train to 12 carriages but admitted its hands were tied over adding more carriages because of the length of the stations involved. She said, "The main thing to remember is we have a tremendous frequency of service, so if somebody felt they didn’t want to get on a particular train they could get on another one very soon afterwards."
Read more:
This is Local London By posting content on Surbiton.com, you agree to adhere to the following guidelines.
- Your username and password must only be used by you, keep them safe. If a posting is made using your username and password it will be considered to have been posted by you. If you have a friend who wants to use our site and post messages on the site, show them how to register.
- Be courteous at all times, inciting racial hatred, posting abusive, obscene, threatening, harassing, defamatory, libellous or sexually explicit material or any material that is found to be offensive is not acceptable and we may suspend your username and password.
- Retaliating to offensive posts causes more problems for other users on the discussion boards. Just report such messages to us using the Feedback link which is available at the top of every page or the 'report this' link associated with individual postings. We will act on every report we receive.
- Please respect other people's work and do not post material that infringes copyright.
- Do not post information that you know to be confidential or sensitive or otherwise in breach of the law. You should only post material that you know to be public knowledge. If you have any doubts do not post it on the site.
- Never attempt to gain unauthorised access to any area of the site. This is known as hacking and is illegal.
- Content posted represents the opinions of the author, and does not represent the opinions of Surbiton.com or its affiliates and has not been approved or issued by Surbiton.com. You should be aware that the other participants are strangers to you and may make statements which may be misleading, deceptive or wrong.
- Spoofing or posing as another user is unacceptable. Anonymous users' postings should always be considered with suspicion.
- Help keep Surbiton.com a safe place for information and opinion. Please alert us of any anti-social behaviour as described above.
Surbiton.com 1998 - 2024
Comments
AND that's not a surbiton train in the picture either. Sorry - I cant help myself.
Not from 2008 perhaps, but definitely Surbiton. For the other train-spotters out there, July 19 2006:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/surbitondotcom/193304410/
Is this most overcorwed train actually the 08:24 from Surbiton (starting from Woking at 08:02)?
I think it must be because the 08:02 from Surbiton stops at all stations and couldn't have been exteneded to a twelve coach train until all the minor stops had platform extensions.
When there is a captive market, price gouging ( eg zone 6),is prevalent as is the comfort and safety of commuters.
After all its only 20 minutes to Waterloo so we can jolly well put up with it or go by "other means".Their is of course no alternative for most folks.
Unless the district line can be extended from Wimbledon to Surbiton/Kingston I can see no improvement being possible unless platforms at key stations can be extended to cope with 12/20 coaches.
Once again private transport has been driven off key routes but public transport lags way behind the growth and with the UK due to 76m population by 2060 it can only get worse.How about the Eu providing funds for the UK as we are now the repositry of choice for all the worlds disaffected.
Post new comment