If you follow lots×10¹⁰⁰ of <strike>rules</strike> Trains!
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It ought to add a certain veneer of memorability to your rant, though...
The people who need to do the hearing are...approximately 1500 miles away by car, so any ranting will be conducted via phone.
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Oh, that does change the dynamic somewhat. Carry on....
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Richmond.. 6 car train.. Now boarding.. Platform 1
The only voice announcements on BART are "the train has arrived", all the time estimates and "are you looking at your luggage?" crap is on the scrolling LCD screens.
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What do they fly, DC-2's...
If only...
Unfortunately there's only one airworthy DC-2 left.
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Airships
GIMME! Why don't we use those, damn it!
the MiG-29's quite a reasonable critter as far as fighter jets go, just a bit...different
Speaking of different MIGs...
Meanwhile, in Croatia:
Yes, that is real.
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Meanwhile, in Croatia:
Thats pretty much the same way you bring a kite up to the sky. I see nothing wrong with that.
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is on the scrolling LCD screens
At my local trainstation those are showing the helpful message "Listen to the speakers for information" ... I am not even kidding.
Filed Under: I wish I was
Also Filed Under: Your idea would probably be mean to people who can't read!
Also Also Filed Under: Then again, using speakers is mean to people who can't hear... so meh
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At my local trainstation those are showing the helpful message "Listen to the speakers for information" ... I am not even kidding.
I assume your local railway is not the Deutsche Bahn itself?
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This thread has now inspired me to compile a lovely collection of pictures of the trains I ride in every day. Since the actual cars change daily it will take a week or so for a "best of" compilation to be completed, but I think it will be worthwhile.
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You'd assume wrong.
At least I think so. It's a pretty big station with ~10 platforms. And a lot of regular DB-trains running through.
Then again, it's probably the property of the town and they can cut money wherever they like.
Also, being pedantic (because I am not sure if you tried to make a joke and I whooosh here): How many stations are a company??Btw. I am pretty sure the "listen to the speakers" message is a default message that shows if the transmission system crapped itself. That would explain it but doesn't really make the fact that sometimes only 1 / 3 displays on any given platform shows you actual information...
Filed Under: I do like trains, though
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This thread has now inspired me to compile a lovely collection of pictures of the trains I ride in every day.
Done.
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You gotta be careful. There are people who can probably deduce where you live based on those pictures.
I almost tried to deduce the locations based on a random anonymized screenshot of a trainscedule (I think posted by aliceif... but I could be wrong) once... then I remembered I am not a creep and stopped... but I think it would have been possible (based on the arrival times and the delay and stuff like that).Filed Under: I had that thought while being on a trainstation waiting for a train that was delayed... Go figure
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Done.
When I said "lovely" I was being sarcastic, though.
There are people who can probably deduce where you live based on those pictures.
They can get the city where I work if I take pictures of any schedules. Which won't be a huge surprise nor much help to anyone. Actually tracking me down.... probably possible even without that, if you really wanted to. I have no illusions of my identity being super sekkrit on the Internet.
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East Coast Mainline?
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The train station in the boring and small town I live in only has one-line LCD notification screens. Those show the current time if nothing special is happening - and delays when delays happen.
$NextMajorTown has proper ones - and I've seen the "Listen to the speakers for information" thing very very rarely there.
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Woo, do you live near York?
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There are people who can probably deduce where you live based on those pictures.
No way ... my location is super secure!
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Looks like Flanders.
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One more thing that is rather WTFy, is bus stations vs train stations.
Train stations are (mostly) nice. They have nice waiting halls. Many have malls next to them, most are clean. Heck, when I went to a conference for a few days, I actually slept at the local train station (they had cheapo hostel-like rooms). I feel comfortable at train stations. There were times when I had a weekend commute to my home town, 700 km from the place I worked, so I have spent quite a while there, growing somewhat nostalgic for coffee from vending machines.
To the contrary, bus stations are mostly crap. They are dirtier, they are invariably built in a way suggesting you are extremely unwelcome here, they smell of despair and existential crisis. They are excellent to make one feel deeply depressed, especially if the weather outside is crap to top it all.
I don't know why this is so, but it's like that in every single place I have visited.
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Let's see ...
- A regional building, featuring in many tourism brochures
- A word joke on my nationality because
- Local pronunciation of the city with the above iconic building
- A movie reference
- Because Belgium is a dirty word
- I'm 50% of all users registered under area_bel
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I know that belguim is a relatively small country. That doesn't mean people can pinpoint you to your local town (if you live in a smaller town - as @aliceif apparently does - there might be ~1000 people living there)
All I did was issue a warning. I am not stopping you from showing any information you wanna lay open.
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East Coast Mainline?
Terminates at the station where I change trains. (The other picture is pretty specific to one group of routes.)
do you live near York?
The closest I normally get (and then only to change trains) is Leeds.
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Looking in someone's profile, that's cheating!
I think "In Bruggeuh" gives it away just a little too much. ;-)I saw the Dutch sign and recognized the colour of the NMBS, so that was already not too hard.
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a little too much
One can debate about the fact that it really is "in". If you where going to be pendant then "near" would be more accurate.
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Now imagine a 4-platform station with mild traffic, always having one or two trains with 15 to 45 minutes stay (the city is the point A for many services), and that one train that is 3 hours late every day (because it crosses two non-Schengen borders on the way, its ETA is totally unpredictable). The announcements start piling up rather quickly.
On all the train stations I pay attention at they limit the announcements to the platform they are expecting the service on, so it doesn't matter how many platforms a station has.
But then ...
5 minutes
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2 minutes before departure;
...I only catch commuter trains so they only stay at a station for less than a minute (generally). We get a 2 minute warning and a "the train arriving on platform 1 is ..." announcement. One of the stations I used to use actually had these swapped, so you'd expect a train, wait two minutes, then get the two minute warning as the train is pulling in.
Late trains are announced manually, though I do seem to remember an automated late train announcement when the station was not attended.
Have a photo of one of my trains (for some reason a GIF and not be a JPEG)
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Do you have any trains that aren't painted to resemble clowns?
The only train that serves my commute:
Notice it's a MAN'S train and not some clown-car joke.
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Oh that's good, I hate waiting for pens.
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Although the reporting marks on that locomotive are a bit screwball...fail, Sound Transit, fail.
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Do you have any trains that aren't painted to resemble clowns?
This one's less clownish:
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You mean the number? 905? 905 is screwball? I have no idea what you're talking about.
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I never claimed it was pretty, just that it's less clownish
Cos that ain't a pretty train.
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You mean the number? 905? 905 is screwball? I have no idea what you're talking about.
No, a proper set of reporting marks has the AAR code (2-4 letters) for the owning railroad above the number...
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American ones don't.
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American ones don't.
AAR = Association of American Railroads, so nice try, but BZZZT.
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Google image search proves me right.
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I passed through DFW on my way to SEA last year. Constant announcements every 5 minutes about keeping track of your luggage.
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I find trains insanely awesome. Both times I was in Japan I had a hell of a time riding trains everywhere.
Unfortunately trains suck some major dick in my country, and we're a pretty big one that could use a much better railway system.
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Just be thankful this isn't the 10-hour version…
They both take the same time to play in my browser.
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Unfortunately trains suck some major dick in my country, and we're a pretty big one that could use a much better railway system.
So you're American or Canadian?
The only train that serves my commute:
How often does that run? Once a day?
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I'm an American, yeah, but of the southern hemisphere variety.
(Argentina to be more precise).
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Just be thankful this isn't the 10-hour version…
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A dutch intercity train:
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Much, much, worse:
Bah...go big or go home...
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