> December 16  is 9 days before Christmas (as it was last year!)  and
> people take that "once a year" trip into the city by Public Transport
> to do their Christmas Shopping.

> One would think that this would be an opportunity to impress these
> passengers and maybe get some return business, but can Mr Connex
> please tell me how you are going to impress anybody when you run 3
> carriage trains during one of the busy times of the year, and have
> people hanging out the window.

> It was really nice Mr Connex when we went past Camberwell Station (and
> Ringwood...and Bayswater) and saw all those nice trains sitting empty
> in the sidings, at least I assume they were sitting there...it was
> quite hard to see anything apart from the armpit of that guy who seems
> to never wear deodorant (does he follow me around, or is there more
> than one of them??)

> Mr Connex, you have got to do more basic things to get more passengers
> then paint your trains and give yourself a name change.

> (Does anybody know what amount of cost savings they get from running 3
> carriage sets, and the reasons they give for doing so?)