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Bozza posted:Stuff like use of Standard Gauge (seemingly obvious, but Spain/Portugal uses Iberian gauge and Russian Gauge stopped the Nazis!) We should be using Brunel's broadgauge 
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My sister has literally stopped talking to me due to me pointing out exactly that with regards to complaining about British Rail. (I may have also said I'd run round her garden dressed as a nazi waving a candle and shouting coke slogans because she missed the olympic torch relay)
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mrpwase posted:I just spent the night in Leeds station after a gig, and let me just say - whoever designed benches with armrests so you couldn't lie down on them needs to go to jail for a very long time. And yeah I know why they did it, and that's still my view. They were built in the 1970s and I believe are the oldest mainline express trains in use in western Europe. The Free Market, everyone.
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Oct 7, 2012 17:34
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If they put in automatic doors and FGW hadn't completely ruined their sets they wouldn't be terrible. I hadn't actually thought of them like that before, as merely a structure/shell rather than a train as a whole. I guess it makes sense, when put that way.
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Oct 7, 2012 20:04
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pointsofdata posted:I'm not sure about having the beans in a little pot! It means you don't get beans mixed up with anything else unless you want to. That's the tipping point from good fryup to a boss as gently caress fryup.
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Chocolate Teapot posted:No, the buses were retired decades ago. I remember catching Leyland Nationals to school a little over ten years ago, so not quite as long ago as you'd think.
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Jan 12, 2015 11:40
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Bozza posted:Network Rail had just spent £3bn rebuilding the fibre network from when it got privatised last time... Fucks sake. Torys are getting nostalgic for potters bar and are going for a reboot.
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May 29, 2015 22:48
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Congrats on being a massive throwback I guess.
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Nov 5, 2015 13:47
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Bacon Terrorist posted:Well if I am then I am. Just don't complain next time your train is cancelled because 'a member of train crew is unavailable' gently caress off back to the 19th century mate.
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Nov 5, 2015 15:36
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Have you considered not being a massive shitlord about your coworkers?
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Nov 5, 2015 16:50
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:They'd been gone on the Great Western Line out of Paddington for so long I could barely remember actually being in such a carriage The HSTs are all slam door same as all mk3 carriages and still run out of Paddington on the great western lines.
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Feb 15, 2016 22:49
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Do they not? They make up all the fast services to Reading and beyond.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Why are they all so fixated on getting the regions to compete with each other? The rail network already has competition, it's called "every other form of transport", and that's why - three times now in a century - the competing entities have had to be amalgamated, nationalised, or both. It it rose-tinted, Major-style hankering for LNER and the GWR competing to have the fastest trains, just plain Thatcherite markets-worship, or both? How do they justify repeating the same mistakes? It's a relatively simple case of More Money For Us, gently caress You.
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