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And who else is supposed to do this then if it's not up to society to handle situations like this? I have learnt quite a lot thanks to social pressure but then again I'm old enough to remember the times when discipline was seen as part of upbringing not something that you can be taken to court for.

This and the post you responded to are genuinely sad. They show how the society has been beaten into mental obedience and it's only going to get downhill from here. Lack of social disapproval to antisocial behaviour leads to deterioration of basic social foundations and social decay. Feet on...

The anecdotal experience is worthless when it tries to convince you that what the national news outlets refer to as general meltdown is not a meltdown because you managed to travel without major drama. What I wrote above about SBB being unfazed by the heatwave is not me trying to spin something...

Firstly, it was you who tried to build a case (and used the word routinely) mocking those who think that being stuck in a chamber exposed to extreme heat where there is no air exchange and you get CO2 buildup from people breathing and no ventilation is something bad. If you think that it is in...

I commute daily by train in Switzerland. In total we've had solid 2+ weeks of weather similar to what happened yesterday here and I, nor anyone else I know had been delayed or experienced anything similar to what happened in a single day yesterday over here. There might have been single...

"Jolly" maybe but "good"? Perhaps compared with less developed countries, but take Switzerland as an example (where the heatwave has been even more severe yet the trains keep running as if nothing happened) compared with Switzerland UK railway system is a joke. To continue on a Swiss note...

Where else in the world do people have to be routinely stuck for hours on trains which basically are air tight cans with no access to fresh air? I'm intrigued.

This almost sounds like you are blaming customers for daring to travel and not the people in charge who are unable to think things through and design the infrastructure/rolling stock so that it is able to handle what is inevitably going to be a more regular occurrence in the future?

You're right, sorry about the confusion.

There were 3 trains at the same time in that spot, 2 of which have a pantograph (both on slow), yet the OHLE collapsed on the line occupied by the HST. That particular section (where the arrow is in the picture above) is where TL trains cross from fast to slow and they do it at fairly decent...

I only started paying attention when the thing exploded in front of me but from my point of view it look like the explosion caused the OHLE to fall.

I was on the train to St Albans and had a close up view of the incident since the explosion happened right in front of my face. An MML HST going into STP triggerd this and then the overhead line collapsed onto the fast line and also landed on our train. We stopped literally 400/500 yards short...

Ah the TL announcements, sometimes I wonder what genius comes up with them. The "first class section is not in use on this train" is my favourite since it literally means that nobody should use it. Logically, since it's declassified, it should say "the first class section is declassified" or...

I'm pretty sure that TL reversed their door switches layout a couple years back. It took me a while to get used to it.

I wonder, when has it become acceptable to keep feet... or rather wipe your soles clean on the seats? So many do it I must have missed a memo or something?

Great opportunity to get up close and personal with one (or many) of those plastic soap boxes in case you didn't dislike them bad enough already. Will they be under AC power so that guests could feast their ears on the continuous high pitched noise the panto units make unless the doors are open?

Has the level of announcements increased recently? I understand they want to be open to everyone but by making them so loud the audience might become bigger since those with ok hearing could become deaf pretty quickly. Not to mention that going through core the announcements are on almost all...

Right so we know the source of the pah pah pah pah pah's. It can be heard here for example. https://youtu.be/idR4dRWI8dw?t=15s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD6aX1wC9ZM Now what's up with that hurricane like noise inside the first class compartment. Sounds as if the train was being...

Brakes made by Knorr? Bloody bean counters hahaha

I'm intrigued by a couple of things on these. 1) 1st class section - why does it sound like there was a strong wind blowing through ajar window when the thing gets moving, as if the anti wheel slip mechanism was using air or something. 2) from the outside, when the doors close and driver...