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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 18, 2019 14:28:33 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 20, 2019 8:39:43 GMT
Today, Ralph is on a train which was once a bus!!! -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 20, 2019 9:26:18 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 20, 2019 17:18:44 GMT
Not a comfortable ride!
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Jul 21, 2019 14:30:12 GMT
Today, Ralph is on a train which was once a bus!!! This is how I imagine the UK remake of SnowPiercer. I love these unusually designed trains! I bet there's a real community spirit among the people who catch them, particularly in bad weather. I occasionally caught a similar train between Stoke and Derby - it was a two carriage train in the early 2000s, dropped to a one carriage service after a few years, and was a rail replacement bus on the 2 occasions I caught it last year. |
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 21, 2019 14:54:02 GMT
Wait, what? Is that a TV series based on the film?
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Post by KnightBeat on Jul 21, 2019 19:17:13 GMT
Wait, what? Is that a TV series based on the film? The linked trailer is a new US-based Snowpiercer TV series. Just to avoid confusion, there isn't a UK-based equivalent. I was just imagining that Ralph's train could be one. The closest we have to SnowPiercer in the UK is (probably) that travel show with Michael Portillo. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 21, 2019 19:24:22 GMT
I have no idea what Snowpiercer is. A train documentary?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 21, 2019 19:27:07 GMT
No, I mean it looks to me like the TV series you linked is adapted from the 2013 film starring Chris Evans, Snowpiercer, which was rather good.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 21, 2019 19:29:52 GMT
I have no idea what Snowpiercer is. A train documentary? -Ralph Post apocalypse film made six years ago about how the only people left alive on a frozen earth inhabit a huge train that permanently encircles the globe. It's quite good, very Terry Gilliam style dystopian future. Think Brazil but on a train. It would appear from what Knightbeat posted that it has been adapted into a TV series. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 5, 2019 7:43:33 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 6, 2019 14:05:00 GMT
I have to go on a Pacer today twice, briefly. I am not fucking happy.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 16, 2019 20:54:49 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 16, 2019 22:20:52 GMT
Nice! I was on this line only two weeks ago. The old underground trains they have running up and down it are more than a bit knackered. Fun fact, the line has a station which is only accessible by train because it connects the steam railway line to the main line. You can't get there any other way and you can't leave the station unless you're on a train.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 16, 2019 22:39:10 GMT
Jonathan and I changed trains there.
Have you ever seen a train map of the Island pre Beeching?
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 17, 2019 20:02:48 GMT
Oh yes. Like a bowl of spaghetti turned upside down. There's a lot on that in the museum at Haven Street station. Poor Isle of Wight though; I see from that article the 'new' trains are reconditioned stock made in 1978. Which sounds awful until you realise the trains running on that line now date back to the 1930s!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 17, 2019 20:22:41 GMT
Yeah, it's the D stock we used to have on the District at Richmond and Wimbledon
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 10, 2019 15:22:23 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 10, 2019 16:22:06 GMT
Some wooly reporting there though I would be delighted to see the back of Northern Fail. That Pacers continue is disgraceful. I was on two of those death traps today. How disabled passengers can get off in an emergency is beyond me (if they can even board in the first place).
I have an option to use Northern Fail for part of my journey into work but use the far more reliable Metro tram network instead. Takes longer but doesn't let me down.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 27, 2019 20:29:09 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 15, 2019 13:41:28 GMT
Spotted this sitting in the sidings at SWI the other day
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 7, 2019 10:10:57 GMT
Yet again Burns' train adventures have gone tango.
He was on a booked train at a specific with the ticket saying valid only on Company X
Said train was cancelled.
Now it's my understanding that should that happen it's virtually open season anyway.
Staff at his starting station told him to procead to connecting station and change - BIG one this, he's been told to continue his journey.
No staff at connecting station so he can't check what he should do - another important factor.
I believe he should board first train to destination station, whatever the train Op. After all he was instructed to proceed. If the guard is visible on platform, check first. If guard materialises on train, catch them and explain as they tend to be more sympathetic to those who've said there's a problem. Clearly state when challenged that he was "instructed to proceed by staff at first station" and "was unable to confirm further directions at second station due to lack of staff".
I think that's all bases covered? I'm pretty sure he'll be fine, the key being he was told what to do by staff when he started.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 7, 2019 14:22:39 GMT
When I eventually got a train, this message came from Derek the (very helpful) train guard:
"We are about to reach Carlisle where we ahahahah will be unleashing the gates of hell."
This was because the 700 capacity train was going to have 900 passengers on board due to picking up folk from the cancelled trains from the other company!
Apparently the sheer weight of the passengers slowed the train down, we were later told. I have never heard that type of announcement before!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 7, 2019 14:52:39 GMT
I have been on trains on Southern during the ongoing guard dispute that means their service is routinely awful. Some drivers got very unguarded with the honesty of their comments over the tannoy. Made everyone laugh despite the fact he was saying things like he didn't actually know which stations the train was going to stop at.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 7, 2019 18:48:08 GMT
Delay Repay claim in. While it be knocked back like the last two times I had trains cancelled, including the time I arrived over 4 hours late? Tension!
I used to find the DR process to be a winner but it hardly seems to work now!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 7, 2019 19:09:05 GMT
That'll be because *your* name is on *their* list.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 7, 2019 19:09:14 GMT
Another fucking train cancelled on the way back!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 7, 2019 19:12:02 GMT
I say. We do *not* do that kind of thing down here on trains anyway!
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 7, 2019 19:15:39 GMT
I've seen things on the late night Glasgow-Edinburger trains.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 7, 2019 19:16:55 GMT
Famous lines not spoken by Rutger Hauer.
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