Recent content by CaptainHaddock

All information that the average passenger either knows already or doesn't need to know. I heard the new TPE announcement on a Doncaster Sheffield 185 yesterday and I feel they've totally missed the point. Instead of having the same barrage of announcements in a different voice why didn't they...

In the Champions League maybe but in the 2023 play offs Sheffield Wednesday lost the first leg at Peterborough 4-0 but won the second leg 5-1 and went on to win on penalties!

XC don't need any help to cause disruption , they can manage it perfectly well on their own!

Personally I don't want other passengers spreading out along the platform. If they're all stood at one end, I can happily board at the other end of the train and have several seats to myself!

"To the Traffic Manager. British Rail, Southern Region. Dear sir, Every morning my train is 11 minutes late. This is infuriating. This morning I took a later train, this also was 11 minutes late. This also is infuriating. Why don't you re-time all your trains to arrive 11 minutes late, then...

Would this be a suitable point in the thread to post the usual "how do they manage to run trains in much hotter countries than ours?" question ? ;)

We don't get temperatures of nearly 40 degrees now, not in the North West where EMR and Northern have given up the ghost again. Even at its hottest the temperature in the North hasn't risen above the low to mid 30s all summer so there's no need for you to exaggerate.

They're quite old now but the YCCRP produced some leaflets which are still available on their website of walks from stations on the line. https://www.yccrp.co.uk/walks I did walk 3 from Bempton to Filey earlier this summer, it's a great walk but as the latter half is on the beach you have to...

When you get to my age with a weak bladder to match you'll think differently! ;)

It's an attitude thing. If you're slipshod about advertising your products with a lazy "this'll do" approach then chances are you'll have a similar slipshod attitude when making the products you intend to sell.

There's a sandwich shop near my workplace that advertises "panini's" in the shop window. Maybe I'm a pedant but if a sandwich shop has such a lax approach to basic grammar then chances are the quality of the products they sell must similarly be poor, so I've never used them!

Why? Do you often get on trains at random with no idea where they're going?

Here's a better idea, make announcements "opt in" rather than "opt out". Seeing as nearly everyone has a smartphone these days, there should be a free GPS app that people who want to hear announcements can download so they can listen to them on headphones while the rest of us enjoy blissful silence!

One really big improvement that would be appreciated is escalators that actually work! The up ones at the southern entrance have been out of order for nearly a fortnight now with no sign of anyone actually working on them. Instead they've just been cordened off, forcing passengers to use either...

We can start all the threads we like about excessive announcements on here but it's never going to make any difference, is it? I've been out on LNER and Northern trains today and in both cases we had the automated announcement after virtually every station followed by the Train Manager repeating...