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Probably best to drive next time.
As a paying passenger, you are nothing more than a nuisance. The railway doesn't want your custom. So don't give it them.
It would help if passengers could spread themselves out a bit. All those people crowding into Euston on a Friday afternoon, when there are trains carting fresh air in the Highlands, are hardly helping matters.
An alternative view - operator-specific tickets are cheaper because they come with greater risk. If the customer had purchased an open ticket then the issue would not have arisen.
In other words, you pays your money and you takes your chances.
Related to this disruption, one of the rail replacement buses clipped the low bridge at Albrighton station on Friday, as reported in the Shropshire Star.
As far as I am concerned, the handful of direct trains was an irrelevance. Work colleagues going to London continued to drive to Stafford or Warwick Parkway. The slow crawl to Wolves, and then onto Coventry, was not attractive.
Alternatively, if these passengers had bought open tickets, then there wouldn't be an issue. You pay less for operator-specific tickets because these products come with greater risk.
Is it really? A much more vocal theme on this forum is that we could reach railway nirvana if only we privatised everything. Witness the barely disguised glee every time something goes wrong at TfW.
But nationalisation doesn't have to equal micro-management plus austerity. Other models are...
I do sympathise. As a frequent commuter by TfW, rail journeys are generally the most unpleasant part of my day.
But as a thought experiment, let's assume that TfW somehow magically got an incentive to improve reliability. What realistically could they do to improve things?