The Official DOOM: Trainline

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AtW replied

21 May 2021, 10:45
Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

(cough) https://archive.is/QXPfC (/cough)

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

21 May 2021, 10:43
Originally posted by AtW View Post

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

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

(cough) https://archive.is/QXPfC (/cough)
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AtW replied

21 May 2021, 10:36
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
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minestrone replied

21 May 2021, 08:50
Originally posted by AtW View Post

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.
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DoctorStrangelove replied

21 May 2021, 08:34
Reassuringly expensive.
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ShandyDrinker replied

21 May 2021, 07:20
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
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GigiBronz replied

20 May 2021, 20:41
They are not attepting to give us hope for cheapper train tickets… aren’t they?

I don’t think that is going to happen.
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AtW started a topic The Official DOOM: Trainline

20 May 2021, 20:20
The Official DOOM: Trainline

“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
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