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And similarly (and topically), TOCs that announce impending strike action but keep you waiting to find out when it is likely to happen, so you daren't book anything just in case.
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What drives you round the bend when using the train?
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And similarly (and topically), TOCs that announce impending strike action but keep you waiting to find out when it is likely to happen, so you daren't book anything just in case.
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plastictaffy
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It certainly does make a difference. I walked through ten carriages of a 12 car the other morning, and received two good mornings and three smiles.
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A couple of months ago I got on a train at Waterloo and there was a youngish woman sat eating the full take away meal, burger, fries and a soft drink.
So you can imagine the amount of waste packaging there was. Well as soon as she was finished she left all the rubbish behind and went and sat in another seat at the other end of the carriage.
I could not believe this and invited her to come and clear up her mess, she just shrugged and rolled her eyes. In the interests of public order I left it at that.
Loud trains is mine. Intercity's are noisier and more rattly on the inside than ever. The other thing that annoys me is the noise those 319's? make on the Euston suburban and regional trains to Northampton and Birmingham etc... what is that damn demented alarm sound they make when arriving and departing?!!!
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NorthernSpirit
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Out of control kids, parents who just don't a give a **** about their child, feet on the seats, onboard flytippers who seeming enjoy abandoning their crap behind (where's their manky teeth and stolen untaxed Ford Transit) I'd make these people purchase a £3 travel cup so that they can enjoy their cup of tax avoiding crap without them leaving the place looking like a pigsty, onboard trolley - just get rid of the catering. No catering - less rubbish, people who don't know how to lock the toilet door, idiots who try to ram their pushbike on a peak hour service, those in suits, rude passengers... I could go on.
On one occation a youngish woman was having a go at a disabled passenger for sitting opposite her. I turned round and said ' if he wants to sit there let him, I'm not putting up with someone yelling and bawling over someone sat opposite them - get a grip.' One thing I did notice what that she did shut up.
Only the other day I had to put up with one wild child using me and two other passengers as climbing appararus prior to him jumping up and down on the table in front of me making loud noises whist the mother had nipped to the bog, I complained to the mother who said that he is expressing himself.
On one occation a youngish woman was having a go at a disabled passenger for sitting opposite her. I turned round and said ' if he wants to sit there let him, I'm not putting up with someone yelling and bawling over someone sat opposite them - get a grip.' One thing I did notice what that she did shut up.
Only the other day I had to put up with one wild child using me and two other passengers as climbing appararus prior to him jumping up and down on the table in front of me making loud noises whist the mother had nipped to the bog, I complained to the mother who said that he is expressing himself.
Voyagers in general, hate the things and nowadays when waiting for a train (usually between Newcastle and Durham) and one shows up, I wait for something that is not a Voyager. Half the time i have been on one and there's a really bad smell, which smells like hot metal. Cramped seating, not enough seats in the first place with only 4 carriages on the 220s and 5 on the 221s and they are almost always full usually resulting in standing for the entirety of the journey. Prefer the older but far superior 43s or 91s used by VTEC.
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AlterEgo
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Window smudges where people have put their dirty greasy heads.
adrock1976
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I believe that is only the case if you actually reside or making journeys wholly within the former Network SouthEast area.
Anyway, I agree with most of what has been posted so far regarding litter left behind, etc. I would like to add something from a West of Scotland perspective here.
A few months ago, I was making a local journey Barnhill to Partick mid morning. When I boarded, there were a couple of guys who were drinking Tennents and were singing "Follow, Follow" and "The Billy Boys". I had an escape plan in that it was only 5 minutes to Bellgrove, where I could bail and get the next train behind to continue my journey. On arrival at Bellgrove, there was no requirement for me to do that as those guys alighted there, making the remainder of my journey peaceful.
You're correct. I've just checked and it's only for this area. I have one myself, and assumed it was UK-wide because I mostly travel in this area, and it's always been fine for me!
Alas this is true.
Though I do find myself down on NSE on occasion, it's not often enough to get the benefit of it.
les.
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Here's another one. Passengers who don't have their tickets ready to show the conductor when he/she comes round checking tickets and then spend an age rummaging through pockets, handbags and the like before finding them.
It doesn't really annoy me as such but it just makes we smile and I wonder if they think that they don't need to show a ticket. I always have my ticket/railcard readily available when I board a train if I know there will be a conductor along shortly.
It doesn't really annoy me as such but it just makes we smile and I wonder if they think that they don't need to show a ticket. I always have my ticket/railcard readily available when I board a train if I know there will be a conductor along shortly.
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mikemcniven
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For me its when someone sits next to you on a virtually empty train and the ones who start kicking off about tickets.
Had one time where the conductor was coming down on a 323 at East Didsbury, the person was in the front carriage next to the doors with a bike, conductor first asked him to move to the middle carriage (Wheelchair/bike area) and then asked for his ticket, and started really giving it stick when he was told to politely leave the train as he didn't have a ticket, driver ended up getting out to assist, and he got off and we continued on.
Had one time where the conductor was coming down on a 323 at East Didsbury, the person was in the front carriage next to the doors with a bike, conductor first asked him to move to the middle carriage (Wheelchair/bike area) and then asked for his ticket, and started really giving it stick when he was told to politely leave the train as he didn't have a ticket, driver ended up getting out to assist, and he got off and we continued on.
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One of my pet peeves is at stations, when people stop and sort out their luggage at the top/bottom of an escalator or stairs. Take your baggage to the side and do it there, people coming down the escalator have nowhere else they can walk!
I also hate when a train is full of reservations, and walk-up ticket passengers have absolutely no chance of finding a seat!
I also hate when a train is full of reservations, and walk-up ticket passengers have absolutely no chance of finding a seat!
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This, absolutely! Also happens with people stepping off trains and stopping as soon as they hit the platform. :roll:
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Luggage/bikes in wheelchair spaces.
Not necessarily the fact that there is luggage or bikes in the wheelchair space, but when a wheelchair user boards the owners of said crap pretend to be deaf/blind/dumb to the world and only move their stuff when asked (normally having to be asked several times)
Oh and that one time a guy chained his bike to the wheelchair space, and then went to the next carriage. The carriage with the bloody bike storage area.
Not necessarily the fact that there is luggage or bikes in the wheelchair space, but when a wheelchair user boards the owners of said crap pretend to be deaf/blind/dumb to the world and only move their stuff when asked (normally having to be asked several times)
Oh and that one time a guy chained his bike to the wheelchair space, and then went to the next carriage. The carriage with the bloody bike storage area.
I find it even worse outside stations when people carry their suitcases across the road and then stop immediately as they get on the pavement to start using the wheels ignoring that they are in the way of people crossing behind them who haven't yet reached a safe point!
Come up north to Leeds and ride the 142s. 
Islineclear3_1
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Just joined a well loaded SWT WoE train and people with baggage on seats ! I had to politely ask someone to move her bags and she got grumpy
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Matt Taylor
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You're sat at the end of the coach, you've watched me check the tickets of every other passenger but wait until I get to your seat before you start looking for your ticket which is inevitably in a purse full of all manner of tat which usually includes various receipts and around a dozen other tickets from other journeys.
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This.
Don't even get me started on m-tickets "I'm on the phone I can't show you it now" well hang up then, your choice not to get a paper one!
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This at a gateline during the rush hour too.
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- People with a lack of spacial awareness
- Stopping at the bottom of an escalator to adjust one of those wheeled trollies or outside a door (or inside if it's raining)
- Cutting me up when I'm clearly moving faster than them
- Blocking the entire passageway whilst dawdling and being able to fit in half the space
- Loudness
- Infants and toddlers. . A screaming child is chuffing annoying regardless of what the parents are trying to do.
- Tinny music coming from a mobile device or leaky headphones. It's never good music either.
- Conversations held way above normal range, a type of humble brag where the subject wants everyone on the train to know how cool they are
- Flagrant disregard for the spirit of the quiet coach - I'd be happier with a silent coach and fines for anyone being too loud although it'd be utterly unworkable in practice
- I work in a cacophony at work, I just want quiet when I'm not working. I can feel how a lack of quiet is affecting my stress levels.
- Overcrowding
- It raises the noise level due to the amount of people there are.
- It causes trains which, by and large, are already too hot to be even hotter and nobody opens a window in winter "because it's cold outside". Stupid reasoning and somehow I'm worse than Hitler if I open one.
- It means someone may end up sitting next to you and inevitably they're a Personal Space Invader encroaching on your space.
- It stops efficient egress and ingress of passengers on the train.
- The smell, it's like people have forgotten how to shower.
- It, along with loudness, flat out ruin the ambience and pleasure of the journey
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satisnek
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It's the two 'pink ones' for me.
Loud people, from the bozo with the cheap white earplugs who doesn't know what the volume control is for, to squalling brats (a wonderful term courtesy of the 'Dear Toper' column in the Derby CAMRA newsletter), to those WHO SIMPLY HAVE TO SHOUT AT EACH OTHER FOR THE SAKE OF IT !
And the Voyagers. All over the world, for well over a hundred years, older trains have been replaced with newer ones, but has anything been replaced with something so different and so inferior?
Loud people, from the bozo with the cheap white earplugs who doesn't know what the volume control is for, to squalling brats (a wonderful term courtesy of the 'Dear Toper' column in the Derby CAMRA newsletter), to those WHO SIMPLY HAVE TO SHOUT AT EACH OTHER FOR THE SAKE OF IT !
And the Voyagers. All over the world, for well over a hundred years, older trains have been replaced with newer ones, but has anything been replaced with something so different and so inferior?
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Not so much annoying as causing amazement, but a studenty looking sort of person in beard and overcoat has just produced a MANUAL TYPEWRITER and is tapping away on my Scotrail train out of Edinburgh. I'm assuming some sort of clown heading back from the Festival, but I have to admit that this is a new one on me.
We're just hoping you've not noticed
Just kidding!
I'm going to go with people with suitcases the size of a walk in wardrobe dumping them wherever they want (I'm looking at you Chinese students) and the same applying to parents who choose to buy giant pushchairs and expect to take them on public transport without being able to collapse them. Especially the really thick ones that resort to getting shouty if asked to get rid of them and bonus points if they and their offspring stink.
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