Southern - ONCE a Failed Franchise? | Failed Franchises #8: Southern Rail

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Hello & welcome to the eigth episode of Failed Franchises. In this series I look at train companies that have failed at their franchise agreements or have been criticised by passengers & industry alike. Today I'm looking at Southern, a company that was embroiled in many strikes, temporary timetable reductions and ran a general poor service. But have they turned it around, are they as bad as they once were and, most importantly, are they a failed franchise?
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@Vanmanyo 3 ай бұрын

Yes this video was reuploaded due to a mistake I made with the editing which I had to resolve by re-uploading! I do apologise - I hope you enjoy nevetheless!

@jakecopeland8068 3 ай бұрын

Wondered why I got a massive Deja vu feeling from this 🤣

@darksars3622 3 ай бұрын

I NEW IT

@JayJourneys_1 3 ай бұрын

Bro has something against every train operator 💀

@quintuscrinis8032 3 ай бұрын

To be fair most of them have had issues at times. The current system doesn't help, with it being officially privately operated but with the government still reserving the final say on everything.

@kieranstravels 3 ай бұрын

Vanmayo Failed Franchises 3am challange (gone wrong)

@Vanmanyo 3 ай бұрын

Yeah I had to pick 3am when I knew I had to re-upload 😅

@kieranstravels 3 ай бұрын

@@VanmanyoI would've thought earlier in the day would've been better 🤣

@ZLDSmogless 3 ай бұрын

I once took a Southern service from Battersea Park to Wandsworth Common a while ago and all the stopping trains were stopping on the fast line platforms due to engineering works at Clapham Junction, even though the DMI said it would be the slow line platforms. So every passenger was on the wrong platform when the trains came in. We ran over to the next platform and asked the driver, who was very kind, to wait for everyone else. As we got into Wandsworth Common and we had stopped on the fast line platforms, they were fenced off and the kind driver showed us the emergency gates. He then explained the whole thing to the station staff. Once again Southern's speciality: disruption with lack of communication

@Vanmanyo 3 ай бұрын

Sounds pretty cool - if you're someone who finds stopping on rare platforms interesting! Apart from that sounds like a disaster from Southern. Surely they would've known about the engineering works!?

@win7sony 3 ай бұрын

That's very interesting because that actually happened to me at Wandsworth Common once, but in reverse. I wanted to board the last East Croydon stopper, and the platform it pulled into (down fast) was totally locked up. I didn't get on, and the passengers who got off actually walked onto the no-access zone to get out.

@20Jameshall_baby 3 ай бұрын

I was on a class 377 and I was heading towards London from the Sutton and Mole Valley line and the trains got put on the fast line from Mitcham Eastfields so I started thinking that this train may be put on platform 17 and they said it would be on the slow lines the whole way.

@darrin0044 3 ай бұрын

I used to use the Southern Milton Keynes to East Croydon service from Watford Junction to Shepherd’s Bush to get to and from work. What a nightmare that service is during peek time going back towards Watford!! I was often lucky to get on the train at all 😂😂😂😂

@JayJourneys_1 3 ай бұрын

Southern doesn't go from Milton Keynes

@Vanmanyo 3 ай бұрын

It used to

@Vanmanyo 3 ай бұрын

Yeah that service is always absolutely rammed. I'd be surprised in a few years if it's even running at all

@mervynrogers7354 15 күн бұрын

Seems to me it's the heavy hand of the dft that's behind many of the toc's problems. Also, expecting a lone driver to be solely responsible for hundreds of passengers and everything that's going on in the train behind him is bonkers when he needs to concentrate on his driving.

@westernregion104 Ай бұрын

I’d like to share an experience I had a long time ago involving southern. So me and my family went into London to see some friends everything was fine up until we had to go home, we were waiting when it’s announced that the train stopping at our station was severally delayed it was 10pm we were waiting until midnight until a double consist of 377s finally creeped into the platform at London Victoria, worse the platform was crowded, not over crowded but crowded enough to where lots of seats were taken, we managed to get some seats and about 30 minutes later we left, however the train had to terminate at Purley where the train was cancelled because of trespassers, which to be fair isn’t really southerns fault, however it took a further 2 hours for a replacement bus to show up and we got home at about 4am, to be fair to southern they have gotten a bit better

@Vanmanyo Ай бұрын

Southern were pretty poor a few years ago for sure!

@Serailchannel 2 ай бұрын

I usually take Southern to go to London and Gatwick and they're not a bad TOC now but in 2016/17 I remembered I tried to avoid them as much as possible due to the immense overcrowding and mismanaged timetable. But one of my worst experiences was the 0655 at East Croydon it was 4 coaches and was more crammed than FCC during their usual operations.

@JackGourdon-je4ze Ай бұрын

arent the southern 171s and 170s went to midlands cuz im from roblox British railway and the class 170 has a southern livery which says midlands ex-south sooo idk maybe you forgot to add it Vanmanyo great video btw i really enjoyed it! :)

@SiVlog1989 10 күн бұрын

Well, the only reason the 171's aren't classified as 170's is due to the couplers the 171's have, which are different to the rest of the Turbostar fleet. They have the same couplers as Electrostars, the reason for this was to allow for the need (in an emergency) to couple an Electrostar Unit to a 171 (such as in the event of a disruption in the supply of electricity to the third rail)

@JackGourdon-je4ze 16 сағат бұрын

@@SiVlog1989 ahh

@Sam-mv6rp 3 ай бұрын

I never understand why some of these companies think removing guards from trains is a good idea

@Vanmanyo 3 ай бұрын

The DfT really pushed them to do it. I'm really not sure why (apart from saving money, of course) - it makes everything less safe for passengers etc. Sadly it's something we just have to deal with I guess.

@SpongeBob2010-mw9xf 2 ай бұрын

Do you think why London Underground don’t have guards anymore since 2000?

@Vanmanyo 2 ай бұрын

@@SpongeBob2010-mw9xf well a metro/subway service is quite different from a heavy rail one!

@SpongeBob2010-mw9xf 2 ай бұрын

@@Vanmanyo ok

@JayJourneys_1 3 ай бұрын

Me asking my autistic friend is that our train that we catching and the autistic train enthusiast goes on about trains when i only asked 1 question 😂

@Lynxfan2 2 ай бұрын

Hello there, Southern Railway do have some Bombardier Class 171 Turbostar DMU trains for both East Croydon - Uckfield and Ashford - Hastings 'Marsh Link' routes. Best wishes and take care. Kind regards, Peter Skuce, St Albans. Hertfordshire.

@somax1259 3 ай бұрын

Hold up, why are some of the class 456 blue?

@TanVasinTrains 3 ай бұрын

Reupload?

@Vanmanyo 3 ай бұрын

Yep!

@heyitsdestiny 3 ай бұрын

I feel like I have watched this before 😂. Deja Vu!

@Vanmanyo 3 ай бұрын

Haha 😅 you might be onto something there 😀

@sansyy727 3 ай бұрын

Will we still be getting a video this weekend even though this was re uploaded?

@Vanmanyo 3 ай бұрын

Oh yes don't worry. Check back soon

@AndrewG1989 3 ай бұрын

Southern used to run all the way to Milton Keynes Central using Class 377/2 and Class 377/7 dual voltage trains but now they only go to Watford Junction.

@Vanmanyo 3 ай бұрын

Yeah it's a shame really. The service under Connex went from Rugby to Gatwick if I remember right!

@AndrewG1989 3 ай бұрын

⁠Yep. Totally agree.

@JayJourneys_1 3 ай бұрын

What train franchisee did you wrong that you turned on all of them 😂

@wclifton968gameplaystutorials 3 ай бұрын

I've always like Southern, namely their rolling stock and service; I don't think they should have had their franchise stripped considering that the service problem was caused by strikes & Network Rail. I still have no idea as to what is wrong with DOO on trains considering that DOO works fine on the London Underground, London Overground (I think?) and the Croydon Tramlink with the LU carrying more passengers per train on average, no?

@katrinabryce 3 ай бұрын

Underground and Overground have a lot more platform staff though.

@axethepenguin Ай бұрын

@@katrinabrycethis is very true

@Saint_Dan132 3 ай бұрын

😁😁😁😁😁😁

@Mgameing123 3 ай бұрын

God you must really hate Southern that you needed to make 2 videos 😉

@lewiss626 3 ай бұрын

I have a question for anyone who travels on Southern. What was it like when Southern moved from the slam door stock to the 377 and what did commuters think to the new stock?

@Vanmanyo 3 ай бұрын

Good question! I mean they are very different units! Surely the 377s would be better in most ways (except maybe comfort?)