Network Rail Raises For Bosses AGAIN?!

The same journey, week after week, Peterborough to Sheffield, Sheffield to Peterborough. This academic year (Sept - May) I spent £897 alone on going home to visit my family, that's WITH a rail card. On average, half of my journeys were spent standing, because there was not enough seating, and times when there was, there was inadequate baggage space. I do not appriciate leaving my suitcase inbetween carriages, especially seeing as they are being filled with more and more unseated passengers.
The most amusing trainline is the Norwich- Liverpool Lime street, it has 17 calling points, from start to ending point, over a 5 hour journey, they have 2, yes, 2 carriages, and never enough seats! My journeys are not even set times, but different times throughout the day.

Why are seats reserved, then more than the trains capacity sold in last minute non reserved tickets? It's obvious that it's not going to work?

So, I had a clever idea, seeing as it's a rarity that first class is ever full, why not spend a bit extra to give myself a seat in first class? Did you know student rail cards do not work in first class? Did you know it costs over £100 to get from Sheffield to Peterborough first class?

We're sat on the floors of the trains which probably are hoovered once a month if that, we're sat on our bags, we're squashed, we're tired, we're paying for this shoddy service. Where are the network rail bosses who are supposed to be fixing these problems? They're giving themselves lovely raises in this time of financial crisis across the country. If they can afford to do this, surley they can afford to slash train prices?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8120864.stm

I have started to learn between which times of day ticket inspectors do not man trains, and ways to cleverly avoid them, therefore, believe sooner or later, we should all take this approach, because for as long as they're making extornionate amounts from us, they won't fix the fact we're travelling in this state.

Another solution would be new computer systems showing exactly how many tickets to seats ratio are being sold? Why is this so overlooked? If the train holds 300 passengers, and 49 seats are reserved, why not just sell the remaining 251 tickets, and if people who have reserved their seat do not show, cut their losses, instead of making other passengers suffer?

In a time when everyone complains about the environment and using public transport, I'd much rather add some carbon footprints than some more notes in the wallets of fat, greedy network rail bosses.

Your thoughts please, what do you pay, how often do you travel, are you always lucky enough to blag a seat and room for your luggage?