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    Horrendous Hull Trains East Coast ride

    You don't need a "professional setup", just hold the phone steady so that it moves with the train, e.g. the table. Then it is easier to see what movement the train imposes on the drink.
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    E-Tickets on dead phones - a possible solution?

    Until TfL sorts itself out vis a vis through tickets and outboundary travelcards, I think the clamouring for e-tickets is more of a provincial thing. CCSTs are pretty universal for leisure travel where it involves LU travel, down here. Part of the problem having a discussion about e-tickets is...
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    Horrendous Hull Trains East Coast ride

    Rather meaninless as the camera isn't being held in the same place. It would be more useful if you held the camera at a fixed position on the table. Even allowing for that shortcoming, the drink didn't spill despite the cup being flared and wide at the top. Obviously I don't have a video clip to...
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    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    A complete non-sequitur! An opened door on a moving train can affect others, both on the train, on a platform and even on another train. A mountiain bike is only a threat to it's rider, unless there is an organised event when the organisers will effectively be held accountable for any forseeable...
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    Horrendous Hull Trains East Coast ride

    Sure, there is a large dose of nostalgia in this thread, but not all recent train designs have suspensions poorer than the trains that they have replaced. Take the stock on the MML south. Like the ECML and the GWR, the MML line has some pretty rough sections of track, a major one near Mill Hill...
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    Horrendous Hull Trains East Coast ride

    I know these references back to MK1 experiences are OT, but remember that they had seats with 150mm of steel springs and horse hair to attenuate track and suspension deficiencies.
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    E-Tickets on dead phones - a possible solution?

    I agree with you here, - as I have said and/or implied many times, those who take the risk with substandard phones deserve to pay the cost when their unfit device lets them down, or they themselves misuse it. It is pathetic to expect somebody else to excuse them or carry equipment* that can save...
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    Supermarkets discussion

    Maybe large organisations like Sainsburys have an agreement to carry the risk of local only authorisation, just like Amazon will accept an order without 2nd ID verification.
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    E-Tickets on dead phones - a possible solution?

    About 75% of adults over 17 years old in the UK carry active driving licences. of the over 65s, nearly 3.5m do not have smartphones, which I would suggest largely maps on to the 25% that don't have a driving licence. Unless provided free of charge, I doubt that either can be regarded as...
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    Supermarkets discussion

    Would that be because contactless requires periodic bank verification based on recent transactions, but a correct pin is locally verified against coding on the card.
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    E-Tickets on dead phones - a possible solution?

    Likewise, I regard a mobile for any tickets and other documents that I may need access to at any time as high risk, therefore wherever practicable, carry printed copies. Of course there is the random failure of any equipment that can potentially let you down, (including the human bearer that can...
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    E-Tickets on dead phones - a possible solution?

    So it would be alright if every rail traveller who insists in using their mobile as the sole carrier of their ticket must carry their passport? If they have one of course! What happens with air travel is irrelevant to train travel, it is impossible to board a plane without being checked, planes...
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    E-Tickets on dead phones - a possible solution?

    I was responding the @Skiddaw 's claim that "it's increasingly difficult to manage normal life without a smartphone". That of course depends on what 'normal life' is. Those insisting on carrying tickets on a smartphone yet failing to ensure that their phone is adequately charged or reliable...
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    E-Tickets on dead phones - a possible solution?

    Judging by all the whinging in this thread, it's very difficult with a smartphone when it comes to rail tickets! That's why I intend to keep using (from machines or self-print) paper tickets, - no batteries or signal needed whilst travelling. 8-)
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    Can and will train seats become comfortable again?

    See post #133 above, I managed OK, - only about 4h55m actually.

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