Recent content by shx

Definitely yes. Female emancipation isn't only about being allowed, but also being required the same. Most of my female friends would feel insulted if given a seat for being female. If being asked or the woman in question wears a baby badge, yes. If none of the former is the case, asking...

They told us, that ScotRail has no drivers allowed to go via ECML available. Pretty chaotic yesterday, till 10pm nobody (at least in Euston) really knew what's going on. At least I haven't seen (or heard the announcement for) the coaches ScotRail's website promised, passengers who stayed were...

Well, that would solve the problem for the vast majority of international travelers - not for all of them. International tickets are still issued in hand-written form - implicating a missing barcode.

Almost all overseas traffic for countries to the south and east of Germany runs through our lines - even Norway/Sweden get a significant share through Germany. On top, Europe got a common carriage profile - UK's profile is significantly smaller, prohibiting large scale freight traffic from/to...

Specifically tell them you're from first class. You'll usually be allowed to carry proper glasses then.

I doubt, that weekends are profitable in first - probably in second as well. As for use: Companies offering cheap weekend upgrades have good usage on weekends. Using companies not offering these weekend specials, I often end up being the only paying person in that coach.

To be honest, I'm not using FGW on a regular base. However when I did, First was always on the western end. Looking at Googled images, I've probably just got bad luck...

As long as the original card providers surrender their keys, that's even possible with todays cellphones - at least the Android variants are able to use their NFC reader to emulate a chip. Without the help of your card provider, this won't happen (unless you're willing to spend ~200k$ on Amazon...

Don't ask guys in DB's upper management about reasonable decisions.

Indeed it isn't. Sorry for not correctly seperating that statement from the first line aimed at you. The latter line was aimed at the vast majority of anti-first-class advocators, who are against mainly for anti-capitalist reasons. -- Discussion about getting rid of first class on certain...

That's a problem sitting on the barrier-side of the mechanic. Currently, ticket barriers read the first NFC they get aware of, test it if it's allowed, let you through if yes, reject you if not. The barriers aren't even checking if the chip they read belongs to them. Reading all chips the reader...

Don't think so. 2G already hit it's technical limitations in most parts of western europe, while 3G suffers from the same sort of problems. 4G has no limitation to subscribers per cell - that's why all equipment that's due to be replaced for age reasons is going to be 4G.

Pretty often. These trains aren't carring much used second class air either. On the grand financial view, I'm paying more money than first class needs, just to make your ticket cheaper - I've no problem with this. I've a problem with people thanking me by telling me, that I'm essentially...

They get rapidly more expensive as someone books them on that specific journey. Their contingents in absolute numbers are usually on par with the Bargain Berths (as for the cheap CNL fares: they're actually two fares: 20€/30€ for a 4/6 person couchette compartment and a appropiate Sparpreis or...

These fares are as rare as bargain berths. Some (like almost all french) even scrapped sleepers. Couchettes are largely a matter of route and who's travelling in your compartment (up to five additional people) - sometime you're lucky, and sometimes you'll receive drunken people in the mood to...