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So big cities win again, there are still miles of tracks near me that could be reused to reopen up the train lines near me. Dr Beeching closed it, despite having new builds near me, there are still no plans to do something with the track bed.
If the local and central government did not piss away millions of pounds, the rural and semi-rural areas could be connected to the main lines years ago.
Wyot wrote: Yes I also love travelling by train and do take the train over car whenever I can.
I wouldn't say I love it.
Passengers fight over luggage space, not moving for passengers who have specifically booked a seat, people eating nuts (My partner as a peanut allergy), people not using headphones/earphones, people rushing to get off and hurting other people in the process. People are arguing with guard's why they don't have a ticket and come up with feeble excuses.
Some heavy dude hit me in the face to rush to get off when he wasn't concentrating snapping my prescription sunglasses at the same time. Nothing I could do apart from pay for a new set of frames, out of my own pocket.
Guard's always say "Nothing I can do". There was time guard's took no nonsense.
Not forgetting passengers not moving up to the seat, so another person can sit next to them, if more people did this it will free up the corridors and gangway.
Not forgetting sexual assaults; even women touching up other women is getting more common, not forgetting men touching men also.
Fights over silly things and football fans spewing on the trains. Never saw any of this on the trains in Japan.
Green Man wrote: Wyot wrote: Yes I also love travelling by train and do take the train over car whenever I can.
I wouldn't say I love it.
Passengers fight over luggage space, not moving for passengers who have specifically booked a seat, people eating nuts (My partner as a peanut allergy), people not using headphones/earphones, people rushing to get off and hurting other people in the process. People are arguing with guard's why they don't have a ticket and come up with feeble excuses.
Some heavy dude hit me in the face to rush to get off when he wasn't concentrating snapping my prescription sunglasses at the same time. Nothing I could do apart from pay for a new set of frames, out of my own pocket.
Guard's always say "Nothing I can do". There was time guard's took no nonsense.
Not forgetting passengers not moving up to the seat, so another person can sit next to them, if more people did this it will free up the corridors and gangway.
Not forgetting sexual assaults; even women touching up other women is getting more common, not forgetting men touching men also.
Fights over silly things and football fans spewing on the trains. Never saw any of this on the trains in Japan.
You've just described more trouble and problems than I've experienced - travelling, almost daily on trains - over the past 10 years!
It could be worse Wyot, you could be on the cocaine train with Starmer, Macron and Friedrich Merz.
These 3 look like the school smokers, who had crafty ciggies in the boys room, when they got caught they stubbed out the ciggies or flushed down the bog.
Starmer looks guilty, awkward and stoned. Funny how Macron hides the bag and Merz hides the spoon at the same time.
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