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Interesting.

First thoughts (yes pardon the pun)- Can these dear shareholders also redirect some quids towards improving their services in Cornwall? I have to get a Truro College bus to college, and this week in four journeys I've been on this week. On Monday- we had three buses (2 on my route, one on the 985 to Newquay) run into fume/engine related problems- and thanks to the incompetence of the technical outfit at Camborne, a third run out of fuel. It was a problem that was of no fault of the poor drivers who like the passengers seem incredibly fed up of all the shanigans. A friend of mine that has been on the route for two years has said it's the norm.

Now onto trains- toys out of pram spring to mind. Their HSTs to London (the eight carriages) are very comfortable trains, that despite getting on a bit have been brilliantly refurbished and I thoroughly enjoy my journeys on them. However a lot of the local routes are run by ghastly 3 seats in a row Class 156's (three carriages) (I think) that quite often the seats are damaged and they are very uncomfortable. Unless your a vertically challenged mate of Snow White, its not very comfortable leg room wise either.

Also fares are highly extortonate down here- It's £5.70 for a single to Truro from where I live in Bodmin, or £5.80 return, a fact that greatly infuriated and bemused a colleague and friend of mine. Yet its £2 MORE just to travel to Camborne which is less than a 10 minute journey away. How does that work?!.

I feel extremely sorry for the staff of both first bus and first trains- the leadership incompetence is unbelieavable and given the garbage they're given both train and bus wise, it seems like we get the castoffs of up country. I wouldn't miss the greed and incompetence that's for sure.