Originally Posted by tobster911
'Should he have advised me there was one in front?'
No. It's an uncontrolled airfield with an AFIS, who gives advice, but takes no responsibility for any collision. It would have been nice, if he tells you that you are #2 landing and you need to watch out for the aircraft that will vacate the runway before you, but maybe he was busy with something more important and trusted that you have eyes and know your own responsibility to go around in case of doubts.
In uncontrolled airfields, there can be a lot of congestions on the runways, and the main motivation for AFIS is to avoid accidents, because they are costly (think about cleaning the runway from debris, lots of paperwork, loss revenues due to RWY closure etc.). If it's only scary, it's OK. Some AFIS operators however, look out for students, especially soloing students, and clean the traffic from in front of them. The same with intructors in the air. So if you arrive to an unknown field, if you feel inexperienced - say so, and people will try to help. But as you correctly assumed, you are still in charge of your fate.
By the way have you seen this?
A Guide To Phraseology for General Aviation Pilots in Europe, section 7, Arrival
http://www.skolenipilotu.cz/skoleni-...gie-evropa.pdf
The term with uncontrolled fields is "free for landing".