My Train Journey This Morning

[gricerboy]

How?

They're electrick ain't they?

Not a lot of lectrick on the Western Region.

No, they're a diesel bog unit

[OwlHoot]

Have you tried www.sadbastards.co.uk

They really are a sad bunch

Nothing but a load of adverts on their web page, and they're even trying to flog their domain name

[shaunbhoy]

2 coaches.

One of which was the refurbished & unexpectedly clean one.

Yet no mention of the "wino situation" zeity.
Don't go getting blase!!!

[shaunbhoy]

No pretty Chinese lady this morning.

Shi Gon Way???



IGMC

[gricerboy]

Hi everyone you'll be delighted to hear that I'be finishef roaming the rail network and its back to business as usual. And an eventful first day back it was too: BRIDGE STRIKE AT WOOTON BASSET! Passengers left stood in aisles for 18 minutes while emergency services assess damage to bridge after being struck by invalid carriage.

[BdP]

My two pet communting hates

Boarded the train this morning only to realise that it had a reverse carriage configuration so found myself in coach D, the quiet carriage, instead of coach A. Well, I didn't realise this at the time and I had just put my Walkman on & was privately rocking out to ELO when I had a tap on the shoulder and was informed by my neighbour (who was wearing spandex pants, hi vis jacket and STILL had his bike helmet on) that this was the quiet carriage and could I kindly turn my appliance off as they are not permitted. Well, I have never been surrounded by such a bunch of intolerant smug little Nazis in all my life. Even the bloody clatter of my laptop keyboard elicited a reaction from one of them! I swear they were all trying to kneecap me with their bloody fold up bikes as we filed off the carriage at Swindon.

Quiet carriages. What a joke. I totally ignore all the retentive dolts and make phone calls, conduct conversations etc, etc. I pay for a ticket, if there are no seats in carriages where normal, well adjusted, personable, people are, then the "quiet" carriage is where I will go.

And with regard to bikes on trains. They should be banned. The cyclists clog up the aisles, with their disgusting contraptions, and are invariable clad in tight lycra, and are sweaty and smelly.

Of course the TOC are in thrall to the 'environmental' agenda, and do all they can to encourage this most anti-social and facistic member (sic) of the travelling public.

Ban cyclists, and get rid of the autistic carriage.

So there

[OwlHoot]

Quiet carriages. What a joke. I totally ignore all the retentive dolts and make phone calls, conduct conversations etc, etc. I pay for a ticket, if there are no seats in carriages where normal, well adjusted, personable, people are, then the "quiet" carriage is where I will go.

And with regard to bikes on trains. They should be banned. The cyclists clog up the aisles, with their disgusting contraptions, and are invariable clad in tight lycra, and are sweaty and smelly.

Of course the TOC are in thrall to the 'environmental' agenda, and do all they can to encourage this most anti-social and facistic member (sic) of the travelling public.

Ban cyclists, and get rid of the autistic carriage.

So there

At last, some common sense.

It's like a breath of fresh air (as long as no lycra-clad cyclists are around).

[gricerboy]

Quiet carriages. What a joke. I totally ignore all the retentive dolts and make phone calls, conduct conversations etc, etc. I pay for a ticket, if there are no seats in carriages where normal, well adjusted, personable, people are, then the "quiet" carriage is where I will go.

And with regard to bikes on trains. They should be banned. The cyclists clog up the aisles, with their disgusting contraptions, and are invariable clad in tight lycra, and are sweaty and smelly.

Of course the TOC are in thrall to the 'environmental' agenda, and do all they can to encourage this most anti-social and facistic member (sic) of the travelling public.

Ban cyclists, and get rid of the autistic carriage.

So there

Don't try to steal my thunder; its what I've been saying all along!

[northernrampage]

Quiet carriages. What a joke. I totally ignore all the retentive dolts and make phone calls, conduct conversations etc, etc. I pay for a ticket, if there are no seats in carriages where normal, well adjusted, personable, people are, then the "quiet" carriage is where I will go.

And with regard to bikes on trains. They should be banned. The cyclists clog up the aisles, with their disgusting contraptions, and are invariable clad in tight lycra, and are sweaty and smelly.

Of course the TOC are in thrall to the 'environmental' agenda, and do all they can to encourage this most anti-social and facistic member (sic) of the travelling public.

Ban cyclists, and get rid of the autistic carriage.

So there

I think quiet carriages are generally a waste of time. Sat in one the other week and some random guy was engaging the strangers on his table in conversation. He was harmless, drinking cans of lager and very slightly inebriated but not obnoxious. Not loud at all. Some idiot came up to him and said "you are making too much noise, can you be quiet please". He shut up.

I'm usually anal but he didn't bother me at all. As opposed to the woman in the train I was in that stalled the other day that shouted into her mobile and kept repeating herself. She was talking about negotiating on the rental of her flat in Clapham. Made the same point 3 times about asking for £10 off the monthly rent and how her friend would love it. Used "like" as a punctuation point constantly and talked about her degree results for 20 minutes in a carriage with broken air conditioning, so not only was I boiling I was sat there not able to escape or put on my ipod as the battery was flat, and I got to learn about her exciting life and estate agents.

As for cyclists... men in tight lycra.. what's not to like? Though their bikes do get in the way.

[SupremeSpod]

I think quiet carriages are generally a waste of time. Sat in one the other week and some random guy was engaging the strangers on his table in conversation. He was harmless, drinking cans of lager and very slightly inebriated but not obnoxious. Not loud at all. Some idiot came up to him and said "you are making too much noise, can you be quiet please". He shut up.

I'm usually anal but he didn't bother me at all. As opposed to the woman in the train I was in that stalled the other day that shouted into her mobile and kept repeating herself. She was talking about negotiating on the rental of her flat in Clapham. Made the same point 3 times about asking for £10 off the monthly rent and how her friend would love it. Used "like" as a punctuation point constantly and talked about her degree results for 20 minutes in a carriage with broken air conditioning, so not only was I boiling I was sat there not able to escape or put on my ipod as the battery was flat, and I got to learn about her exciting life and estate agents.

As for cyclists... men in tight lycra.. what's not to like? Though their bikes do get in the way.

Buy a car. Yes you pay through the nose. Yes you get stuck in traffic. But and here's the big but, you're alone. The public are not in your vehicle winding you up.

Public transport in the UK is f**ked and beyond help.