The Official DOOM: Trainline

[AtW]

“Trainline shares crash as investors panic over state-owned ticketing site

George Soros among a clutch of investors to book big paper profits after betting that shares in the ticketing website would slide

Trainline has been hammered by an investor panic over the launch of a rival state-owned ticketing website as ministers embark on the biggest railway reforms in a generation.

Shares in the travel app plunged more than 23pc, wiping about £400m off the value of one of Britain's brightest tech stars, despite revelations that the Government's Great British Railways website is still up to four years away from going live.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...-backed-rival/

Pretty idiotic in the first place that there wasn’t a centralised non-profit site to sell all train tickets

[GigiBronz]

They are not attepting to give us hope for cheapper train tickets… aren’t they?

I don’t think that is going to happen.

[ShandyDrinker]

Cheaper train tickets is most definitely a pipe dream. As Grant Shapps said, they may even rise.

https://www.theguardian.com/business...ls-rail-reform

[DoctorStrangelove]

Reassuringly expensive.

[minestrone]

Pretty idiotic in the first place that there wasn’t a centralised non-profit site to sell all train tickets

They would have tried to build it in Lisp.

Believe me, the train ticketing industry is fookwittery on a different level. A non profit national platform will be like giving them the codes to the nukes.

[AtW]

They will finally solve problem of much more expensive “peak time” tickets by making it normal price - flexi-working and WFH will hit peak time cattle volumes

[OwlHoot]

“Trainline shares crash as investors panic over state-owned ticketing site

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...-backed-rival/ ..

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[AtW]

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It’s no longer socially acceptable to cough in public, mods do the needful!