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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jun 12, 2019 23:06:35 GMT
I should think it will be by then. Or at least the East Coast route will be open for diversions.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 13, 2019 6:53:09 GMT
Oh look. Once again my train is delayed. When I am fully resettled I plan to find a place where I can get about by bus/tram. Northern Fail just isn't reliable enough for getting to work on time with any regularity. I have been learning why it has a bad rep most days!
...and I had thought Scotrail was bad!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jun 13, 2019 17:20:53 GMT
 All I can say is it never failed me until the last few weeks. Got into work fine this morning. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 13, 2019 18:04:54 GMT
I do not doubt your experiences at all. I can only say that in the 4 weeks I have been travelling it I have found Northern Fail unreliable enough that it will influence where I move to. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 16, 2019 19:04:33 GMT
Yet again the train between Scotlandland and Englandland is borked!!!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 17, 2019 8:37:27 GMT
I have work to get to and yet again Northern Fail is running late. It is the worst train company. The worst.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 19, 2019 17:31:14 GMT
And their trains were buggered on Monday and today. Northern Fail is the worst train company I have ever used. No reliability. It's a daily lottery with them and a cause of great stress. They are, however, helping to narrow down where I will move to!
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 19, 2019 20:52:33 GMT
That's pretty disgusting behaviour by Northern Rail, Doc'....
YOU WANT DELTA FORCE TO TAKE THE BASTARDS TO HELL ON LOAD OF HOT LEAD?!?!?!
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jun 20, 2019 8:33:23 GMT
Please don't. I have found them to be one of the best and most reliable train companies around.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 22, 2019 18:01:38 GMT
Hmmm. We have a convergent anomaly here.
The Doctor believes they're shit. M thinks they're ok. Better than ok in fact.
WHO IS RIGHT?
Ummm, Delta Force isn't really about decisions like this. Shooting things or blowing things up or kung-foing the crap owta things, but not, you know, complex investigations....
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 22, 2019 19:00:18 GMT
M and I are both right.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jun 22, 2019 19:40:44 GMT
Ralph and I are both right.
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 22, 2019 20:22:32 GMT
I suspect some kind of highly localised phenomena that affects only Ralph. Like the lorry driver rain god in hitch hikers who was always getting rained on because the clouds loved him so much. Ralph is a train god. They break down so they can spend more time with him because they want to be with him.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 22, 2019 22:58:29 GMT
M and I are both right. -Ralph |
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 22, 2019 22:59:09 GMT
Ralph and I are both right. |
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 22, 2019 23:00:17 GMT
Convergent anomaly...
CONVERGENT ANOMALY!!!!
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 22, 2019 23:05:49 GMT
Pimms o'clock then.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 3, 2019 7:22:34 GMT
Once again Northern Fail can't get me to work on time and I'm already getting an earlier train than I need to every day to avoid them!
They are the worst. They make Scotrail look like gold!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 3, 2019 11:17:24 GMT
There was a three minute delay.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 3, 2019 16:57:42 GMT
7 minutes past the advertised time so I missed the 8:12 connecting tram to work.
As I said, I hope to resettle somewhere where the need for Northern Rail is minimal. The stress will be short term. This will pass. Liie tears in the rain!!!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 4, 2019 8:16:05 GMT
I needed to rely on getting 2 Northern Fail trains to get to work on time today at a different location. The first one left 4 mins early but I was at the platform so got it fine. The second is currently 15 mins late. I will be late for work yet again.
Unusual to be in a Time Anomaly going backwards *and* forwards though!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 4, 2019 8:21:41 GMT
Suspect the first one didn't leave four minutes early but was the previous one leaving six minutes late. Never known them to leave early, they always wait at the platform.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2019 7:34:35 GMT
Got up earlier to get a train two before the one I need to get a connection. Due to delays I will still be late for work. The daily stress of not knowing if I can get to work on time is causing me to lose sleep. Was up half the night worrying about it
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 9, 2019 6:30:14 GMT
Got up early doors to get an earlier train due to an early start at work today. Naturally, the train is cancelled. Oh, Northern Fail, why are you so shit??
When I have moved I will not have to use them very often and so my life will be much easier. I look forward to the novelty of getting to work on time consistently!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Aug 9, 2019 8:11:28 GMT
On train perfectly on time. Trains running smoothly.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 9, 2019 10:13:52 GMT
I have experienced cancelled or late running trains 9 out of the previous 11 working days and now owe work several hours as a result. So long, Northern Fail*! It hasn't been fun!
Northern Rail is even worse than The Fife Circle, usually the leader in the Premier League of Shite Travel!
-Ralph
*Well when I able to move into new Burns Cave.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Aug 9, 2019 11:32:52 GMT
I have only experienced a handful of difficulties in years of using them, most since you have been here! It is weird.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 9, 2019 14:33:53 GMT
Honestly, it is the most unreliable service I have ever used! I thought nothing could be shitter than The Fife Circle.
By contrast, the Manchester Trams is by far the most reliable transport service I have used! They should open more routes! More! MOOOORRREEEE.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Aug 9, 2019 17:21:37 GMT
It is the most reliable train service I have ever used far better than any in Scotland. And to be fair the last fortnight a lot of the rail network up here has been underwater. You just seem to find all the rare services that have a problem! Some might call it a rare talent.  |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 9, 2019 20:28:21 GMT
Oh it wasn't working before the floods. The Scottish services are miles better.
But it shall not trouble me past this month. Victory.
-Ralph
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