Commuting from Stafford => London

Hi All

Due to my partner's working commitments it looks like we will be moving from
London to the Stafford area

Has anyone experience of commuting from Stafford to EUS ? Needing to arrive
into EUS about 0900 and leaving at 1700 ish, chances of getting seats,
frequency of delays etc etc ?

Cheers

J.

On 29 Nov, 10:00, "Sam" <Jac...@m> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Due to my partner's working commitments it looks like we will be moving from
> London to the Stafford area
>
> Has anyone experience of commuting from Stafford to EUS ? Needing to arrive
> into EUS about 0900 and leaving at 1700 ish, chances of getting seats,
> frequency of delays etc etc ?
>
> Cheers
>
> J.

All the way from Stafford to London every day! Rather you than me!

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Graham Harrison wrote:

> <philipuk@> wrote in message
> news:3f6cd141-67d2-4984-acb2-36b39865fd05@a39g2000pre..com...
>> On 29 Nov, 10:00, "Sam" <Jac...@m> wrote:
>>
>>> Due to my partner's working commitments it looks like we will be
>>> moving from London to the Stafford area
>>>
>>> Has anyone experience of commuting from Stafford to EUS ? Needing to
>>> arrive into EUS about 0900 and leaving at 1700 ish, chances of getting
>>> seats, frequency of delays etc etc ?
>>
>> All the way from Stafford to London every day! Rather you than me!
>
> Many years ago (mid/late 70s) I worked in a travel agency in Fleet
> Street. Customer came in and I needed his address which he gave me as
> somewhere near Coventry. When I asked if he was just in London for the
> day he said "no" and explained that he had found that the season fare
> from Coventry was less than somewhere like Brighton or Worthing. He
> also pointed out that Coventry took no longer than Brighton and plenty
> of people did that journey.
>
> Much the same arguement (timewise, don't know about the fares) can be made
> for Stafford versus plenty of South Coast "commuter" towns where nobody
> would bat an eyelid.

Even a few places inside London - plenty of places on the southern and
eastern side of zone 6 take an hour to get to Euston from.

tom

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In message <p-WdneQ1N__qZ9PanZ2dnUVZ8radnZ2d@bt.com>, at 17:44:18 on
Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Graham Harrison
<edward.obvious.harrison1@btinternet.obvious.com > remarked:
>Many years ago (mid/late 70s) I worked in a travel agency in Fleet Street.
>Customer came in and I needed his address which he gave me as somewhere near
>Coventry. When I asked if he was just in London for the day he said "no"
>and explained that he had found that the season fare from Coventry was less
>than somewhere like Brighton or Worthing. He also pointed out that Coventry
>took no longer than Brighton and plenty of people did that journey.
>
>Much the same arguement (timewise, don't know about the fares) can be made
>for Stafford versus plenty of South Coast "commuter" towns where nobody
>would bat an eyelid.

It's only a bit over an hour from Grantham to KX (hardly any longer than
Cambridge). It's time that matters, not distance.
--
Roland Perry

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711291900390.21062@urchin.earth.li >, at
19:03:21 on Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
remarked:
>Even a few places inside London - plenty of places on the southern and
>eastern side of zone 6 take an hour to get to Euston from.

Up with which I would not put.
--
Roland Perry

On Nov 29, 7:04 pm, Roland Perry <rol...@perry.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <p-WdneQ1N__qZ9PanZ2dnUVZ8radn...@bt.com>, at 17:44:18 on
> Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Graham Harrison
> <edward.obvious.harris...@btinternet.obvious.com > remarked:
>
> >Many years ago (mid/late 70s) I worked in a travel agency in Fleet Street.
> >Customer came in and I needed his address which he gave me as somewhere near
> >Coventry. When I asked if he was just in London for the day he said "no"
> >and explained that he had found that the season fare from Coventry was less
> >than somewhere like Brighton or Worthing. He also pointed out that Coventry
> >took no longer than Brighton and plenty of people did that journey.
>
> >Much the same arguement (timewise, don't know about the fares) can be made
> >for Stafford versus plenty of South Coast "commuter" towns where nobody
> >would bat an eyelid.
>
> It's only a bit over an hour from Grantham to KX (hardly any longer than
> Cambridge). It's time that matters, not distance.


It's also price, which varies with distance more than with time.

And also the number of alternatives.

I might choose to allow an hour to get to Euston from some places in
zone 2, as it happens, but it would also take me two hours or less to
walk there from most of zone 2 if absolutely everything went wrong.

DB. wrote:
> "Graham Harrison" <edward.obvious.harrison1@btinternet.obvious.com >
> wrote in message news:p-WdneQ1N__qZ9PanZ2dnUVZ8radnZ2d@bt.com...
>> <philipuk@> wrote in message
>> news:3f6cd141-67d2-4984-acb2-36b39865fd05@a39g2000pre..com...
>>> On 29 Nov, 10:00, "Sam" <Jac...@m> wrote:
>>>> Hi All
>>>>
>>>> Due to my partner's working commitments it looks like we will be
>>>> moving from
>>>> London to the Stafford area
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone experience of commuting from Stafford to EUS ? Needing
>>>> to arrive
>>>> into EUS about 0900 and leaving at 1700 ish, chances of getting
>>>> seats,
>>>> frequency of delays etc etc ?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> J.
>>> All the way from Stafford to London every day! Rather you than me!
>> Many years ago (mid/late 70s) I worked in a travel agency in Fleet
>> Street. Customer came in and I needed his address which he gave me as
>> somewhere near Coventry. When I asked if he was just in London for
>> the day he said "no" and explained that he had found that the season
>> fare from Coventry was less than somewhere like Brighton or Worthing.
>> He also pointed out that Coventry took no longer than Brighton and
>> plenty of people did that journey.
>>
>> Much the same argument (timewise, don't know about the fares) can be
>> made for Stafford versus plenty of South Coast "commuter" towns where
>> nobody would bat an eyelid.
>
>
> Can anyone find quickly (and quote here) the Stafford <> Euston
> season ticket rates, please?

Nationalrail.co.uk says £741pm or £7,724pa.

On 29 Nov, 19:02, Cheeky <m...@> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:26:34 -0800 (PST), "phili...@"
>
>
>
>
>
> <phili...@> wrote:
> >On 29 Nov, 10:00, "Sam" <Jac...@m> wrote:
> >> Hi All
>
> >> Due to my partner's working commitments it looks like we will be moving from
> >> London to the Stafford area
>
> >> Has anyone experience of commuting from Stafford to EUS ? Needing to arrive
> >> into EUS about 0900 and leaving at 1700 ish, chances of getting seats,
> >> frequency of delays etc etc ?
>
> >> Cheers
>
> >> J.
>
> >All the way from Stafford to London every day! Rather you than me!
>
> A lad I know does it from Crewe to London each day. As you said -
> rather him than me although an hour and 16 minutes isn't that bad. It
> can take that on a bad day from South Manchester to Wigan. I suppose
> it depends on what the journeys are at either end.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I know someone who commutes to Clerkenwell most days from Norwich!

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Philip Hardy wrote:

> Tom Anderson wrote:
>
>> Heh! The solution would have been to keep a bike locked up at Euston,
>> and do the leg to the city on that. Saves money, burns calories, and is
>> quicker!
>
> Burns calories? Is that a good thing?

Mr Tracy, to whom i was replying, was extolling the virtues of a free
breakfast in first class, but bemoaning the effect it had on his loading
gauge. Burning some calories would allow him to have had his Full English
and eaten it, as it were.

tom

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On Nov 29, 7:12 pm, Roland Perry <rol...@perry.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711291900390.21...@urchin.earth.li >, at
> 19:03:21 on Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Tom Anderson <t...@urchin.earth.li>
> remarked:
>
> >Even a few places inside London - plenty of places on the southern and
> >eastern side of zone 6 take an hour to get to Euston from.
>
> Up with which I would not put.

Though presumably not many people who commute therefrom actually work
near Euston, and can probably walk to their offices from the Southern
termini... (Yes, I know the original poster was asking about Stafford
to Euston.)