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Re: West Coast Mainline Deal Ditched : Thu Oct 11, 2012 12:37 pm  
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But if you haven't got hours to spare to see lots of different countryside, and want to go on a train, it is. Jerry C has just shown that getting from Leeds to Birmingham is quicker by train than by car.

Being pedantic, you're right, it isn't the only way to make that journey by train. But who in their right mind, living/working in London and needing to be in Manchester would go via Leeds?

I travel from Sheffield to London fairly regularly. I get the quickest train because the less time I spend travelling the better, so I am forced to use the only available direct route. Perhaps I should get the Cross Country service to Penzance and then travel in from there, just to prove East Mids trains don't provide the "only" service from Sheffield to London?


Jerry Chicken has said that for him the quickest way of getting from Leeds to Birmingham is by car. He hasn't said it's the only way of getting from Leeds to Birmingham. Whether it is the quickest will depend on where in Leeds you travel from and where you're going to in Birmingham, and also probably what time of day you travel. Other factors will also come in to play when judging cost effectiveness, for example it's likely to be much cheaper per person if four people are making the journey by car.

No rail provider has a monopoly on transport between Leeds and Birmingham.

The fact that you choose to use the train does not mean a train provider has a monopoly on travel between Leeds and Sheffield either.
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Re: West Coast Mainline Deal Ditched : Thu Oct 11, 2012 12:49 pm  
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Again, a very specific set of circumstances that lead you to choose the train but do not make the train a monopoly.
You have quite deliberately chosen not to own a car or motorbike - a choice you made. The facilities are there for you to travel by those methods, you have just chosen not to us them.

By the way, a taxi is £82 one way, £147 return, I agree that's quite expensive.
The coach service between Leeds and Manchester takes 65 minutes. Why do you regard that as unrealistic?

Are there really circumstances where the only way to travel is by train? We still haven't come up with any. We have come up with reasons why rail travel might be preferable, but no cases where someone has to travel by train and it's their only method of travel.

I'm not sure that not having access to a car is a very specific set of circumstances to be honest, even if I did the same journey would involve 2 sets of inner city travelling in Leeds & Manchester.
I haven't chosen not to own a car, I do own one. It's still not the best way to make that journey, that is by train. That coach service is not suitable either, the only one that would get me there in time to begin work is at about 3am.
Nobody is saying that the trains have a monopoly on travelling, just that the train companies have an effective monopoly on travelling on a train.
I'm not entirely sure why you keep insisting that whenever someone comes up with circumstances as to when train travel is the only choice those are dismissed as "specific circumstances" and then say there are no cases where somebody has to travel by train.
In fact I'm not sure why you've twisted the argument round to whether travelling by train is the best way or not to be honest.
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Re: West Coast Mainline Deal Ditched : Thu Oct 11, 2012 12:54 pm  
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I'm not sure that not having access to a car is a very specific set of circumstances to be honest, even if I did the same journey would involve 2 sets of inner city travelling in Leeds & Manchester.
I haven't chosen not to own a car, I do own one. It's still not the best way to make that journey, that is by train. That coach service is not suitable either, the only one that would get me there in time to begin work is at about 3am.
Nobody is saying that the trains have a monopoly on travelling, just that the train companies have an effective monopoly on travelling on a train.
I'm not entirely sure why you keep insisting that whenever someone comes up with circumstances as to when train travel is the only choice those are dismissed as "specific circumstances" and then say there are no cases where somebody has to travel by train.
In fact I'm not sure why you've twisted the argument round to whether travelling by train is the best way or not to be honest.


Earlier you said "I have no available car to use" now, you are saying you do own a car.....but you just choose to make it unavailable?

Nobody is disputing which is the best service. But whether a particular service is the only service.

I haven't twisted the argument to "whether travelling by train is the best way or not to be honest" I have challenged the argument that a rail service provider has a monopoly on the provision of transport.
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Re: West Coast Mainline Deal Ditched : Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:02 pm  
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You think Virgin have a monopoly on travel between London and Manchester? There no other ways to travel between London and Manchester, other than on a Virgin Train? erm......OK :)


No. I did not say that.

As you perfectly well know.

As I said: shifting of the goalposts. :lol:

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Are you serious - I could get a train from London to Leeds and then a train from Leeds to Manchester - neither train is run by Virgin!!


Not directly, you couldn't. You'd have to travel for longer and in a way that is far from the most convenient. And frankly, only an idiot or someone with no time considerations or actually wanting to travel by as many trains as possible etc would do so.

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I can here the goalposts being shifted from up here...


Oh, it's a hoot.

Him wrote:
... Along with the ones on the Leeds board where you kept repeating that Leeds were poorly managed by Hetherington and needed to get rid of Webb, Burrow, Peacock etc 2 years ago.


He didn't, did he? :lol:

Richie wrote:
... I haven't twisted the argument to "whether travelling by train is the best way or not to be honest" I have challenged the argument that a rail service provider has a monopoly on the provision of transport.


It's just such a dreadful pity that you had to introduce that red herring yourself in order to 'challenge' it.
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Re: West Coast Mainline Deal Ditched : Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:07 pm  
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No. I did not say that.

As you perfectly well know.

As I said: shifting of the goalposts. :lol:

It's just such a dreadful pity that you had to introduce that red herring yourself in order to 'challenge' it.



OK Mintball, you're right. We're actually debating whether Sainsburys/Virgin have a monopoly on shopping/travelling in Sainsburys/Virgin. We're not debating whether Sainsburys/Virgin have a monopoly on grocery supply/travel.
A very valid debate indeed!
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Re: West Coast Mainline Deal Ditched : Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:12 pm  
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Earlier you said "I have no available car to use" now, you are saying you do own a car.....but you just choose to make it unavailable?

Nobody is disputing which is the best service. But whether a particular service is the only service.

I haven't twisted the argument to "whether travelling by train is the best way or not to be honest" I have challenged the argument that a rail service provider has a monopoly on the provision of transport.

I own a car. I never said I didn't. The misses uses the car sometimes (basically whenever she wants :( )

No I don't think anybody actually was disputing that until you created an argument all of your own.
People were disputing whether trains should be in public ownership or run by private companies. Not whether going by train was the best way of making a journey. Or that trains had a monopoly over the entire transport network, just that train operating companies often have an effective monopoly on the lines/services that they run, in the same bus companies often do.
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Re: West Coast Mainline Deal Ditched : Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:13 pm  
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No rail provider has a monopoly on transport between Leeds and Birmingham.

The fact that you choose to use the train does not mean a train provider has a monopoly on travel between Leeds and Sheffield either.


I haven't said that. The point is that for quickest, and most practical, train journeys, the provider on that route does.

If all the fuss about Virgin being a decent service and nice trains is right, I'd love to use that on my journey to London, but I can't because EMT have the best route to themselves. There is no competition on that specific route.
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Re: West Coast Mainline Deal Ditched : Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:28 pm  
Chris28 wrote:
I haven't said that. The point is that for quickest, and most practical, train journeys, the provider on that route does.

Which is entirely irrelevant because there are no circumstances in which the train is the only available method of transport.

Chris28 wrote:
If all the fuss about Virgin being a decent service and nice trains is right, I'd love to use that on my journey to London, but I can't because EMT have the best route to themselves. There is no competition on that specific route.


See my earlier post about alternative methods of transport.
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Re: West Coast Mainline Deal Ditched : Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:30 pm  
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No I don't think anybody actually was disputing that until you created an argument all of your own.
People were disputing whether trains should be in public ownership or run by private companies. Not whether going by train was the best way of making a journey. Or that trains had a monopoly over the entire transport network, just that train operating companies often have an effective monopoly on the lines/services that they run, in the same bus companies often do.


....and the reason given to put the train services in public ownership being the idea that they were a monopoly and had no competition. As we have seen, they are not a monopoly and do have competition.
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Re: West Coast Mainline Deal Ditched : Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:32 pm  
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OK Mintball, you're right. We're actually debating whether Sainsburys/Virgin have a monopoly on shopping/travelling in Sainsburys/Virgin. We're not debating whether Sainsburys/Virgin have a monopoly on grocery supply/travel.
A very valid debate indeed!


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