Trains AAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!

They're expensive, gash and make Ducati 888s look reliable. I bloody hate trains in the UK, the only place they work properly is in London. Considering the size/population distribution of the UK it's insane that we don't have a decent rail network.

[quote=yorkie_chris;1568747] I mean who would ever need to go into leeds for 9am eh?
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Erm most of the working population?

Originally Posted by grh1904

I want a bullet train like wot they 'ave in Japan. On Top Gear on Sunday the average delay was only something like 7 seconds.

Lol that was a good watch And I agree, we should definitely have one. Don't know where it'd go like If I was paying tax - which fortunately I'm not for one more year - I'd much rather it went toward that than some other pointless exploit.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

Erm most of the working population?

It was a sarcy comment that one, clever girl

i hope everyone that's suffered serious delays havbe used the passenger charter to claim their money back. you can usually do it online. and if it's over a certain period of time you get the cost of your fare back and some.

One day I went ot catch a silverlink train. Dozens of other people were waiting too. After an hour I went home and rang the company:

Me"what's going on"
Silverlink: "Planned engineering works"
Me: "How are we supposed to know?"
SL:"there are signs up at the station"
Me: No there aren't, and the indicator board says the train's coming, and there's no staff to ask"
SL: "Oh. Didn't you see the replacement bus, it goes from x road?"
Me: "that's 2 streets away. I was waiting on the platform for the train."
SL:"Oh"

no wonder they lost the operating contract. I got £50 back for a £3.50 fare (but missed seeing a friend off).

Originally Posted by grh1904

I want a bullet train like wot they 'ave in Japan. On Top Gear on Sunday the average delay was only something like 7 seconds.

We don't need a Bullet train, but we really do need to steal whoever set up their transport network and trains the people that run it.

How can something so basically simple be so poor and inefficient, and expensive to boot?

It's not like money isn't spent on the railways. It's a total joke really. Trains should be as predictable as the tide.

[yorkie_chris]

We need to get some of the older generations of ze germans running the trains...