Annoying things people do on trains

[blueg33]

Vipers said:

blueg33 said:

Does the East Coast main line go to Birmingham?

Change at Crewe.

So the answer is no! Which is what I thought. It’s takes nearly as long Birmingham to Manchester as it does LONDON to Manchester

[AstonZagato]

blueg33 said:

Does the East Coast main line go to Birmingham?

No but I was responding to a point about how to increase capacity out of London generally, that had been raised following a post about Kings Cross (which is the start of the East Coast Main Line). So I'm not sure why you'd ask that?

[fido]

ClaphamGT3 said:

Filthy, minging peasants who not only eat malodorous hot food on trains but do so with the finesse and manners of a ruminating beast of the field. Why the fk these disgusting scum can't either eat before they get on the train or wait until they're home is entirely beyond me.

Haha. I had a couple like this before the weekend. They had been waiting at Waterloo for ages to get a late train to Liphook or somewhere in deepest Surrey. The male kept cursing whilst scoffing his burger and coke, wobbling his head like the Churchill dog uncomfortably near me. Then letting everyone know he was paying for an Uber home (must have been for a whopping amount). After they got off (leaving some masticated material and drinks on the seat) the train doors beeped and moved off. Karma perhaps.

[Europa1]

AstonZagato said:

Genuine question: would a new viaduct and tunnel at Welwyn on the East Coast Mainline increase capacity? I thought that section of two tracks was a pinch point.

Ah, a question I have often pondered myself either when the lowly train I'm on has come to a stop to let another train through, or else has sailed smugly past an even lowlier train at stop.

[Dark85]

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Just on a train from Lancaster to Cardiff, it's nearly over thankfully but my God I have no idea how anyone doe this regularly without resorting to violence. I've had:

Three people with their filthy shoes on the seats
One person's music so loud you could hear it half a carriage away
One's half hour+ loudspeaker phone call about nothing important.
A girls night out group's giggle laced conversation - would have been more tolerable if they were within perving distance but alas no
And now a pair of tts watching the football on full volume.

And all this for just twice what I would have spent on fuel and maybe half an hour of time lost

[Zarco]

I haven't been on a train since 2019. Was just starting to think it might be nice to work in London again.

This thread has put me straight again

[Barchettaman]

Robbo 27 said:

I was there also

I couldnt help but think of all the billions to be spent on HS2, all we want is more trains, clean trains and trains that you can rely upon. Keep the ultra high speeds, I would trade that any day for a good train service.

I think that’s the real reason behind HS2.

Journey times will reduce a bit but capacity will found massively because fast trains won’t have to share the track with slower ones.

Source: some bloke on the radio last year.

[anonymous-user]

I don’t get why people feel the need to behave like animals. Feet on seats really annoys me as there’s no need for it, likewise people who spread their food all over seats and floor of the carriage just because they cannot fit it all on their gob or use a bin when they’ve finished. On average, people are scum and the planet would be better off without us.

[alorotom]

Forgot about this thread ... I have not missed the last 18mths of train-free living

[davidc1]

Been on 1 train in 15 months and that was 2 stops for a beer on an empty rattler.
Not missed it 1 bit after 32 years of 5 days a week.
If work wasnt quite so far away i would get an electic mountain bike for the journey.....

[Psycho Warren]

wormus said:

. On average, people are scum and the planet would be better off without us.

I agree. the two things the pandemic has highlighted is that there are still some genuine decent folk out there but secondly most people are fking utter selfish scumbags. seems covid has flicked a switch in assholes to make them go "full asshole" and not even try to hide it.

[valiant]

alorotom said:

Forgot about this thread ... I have not missed the last 18mths of train-free living

Funnily enough it’s been pretty bliss using the trains but it seems to be returning to normal now

Quiet trains, early on in the pandemic having the entire carriage to myself. No one using them so spotlessly clean, seems to be less stress on the system so was a LOT more reliable and with a reduced timetable was bang on time, every time.

Scummers worried about COVID kept away fearing that the railways were avenues of instant death and people now not wanting to sit next to anyone meaning you’re not getting some BO-ridden, McDonalds eating, uncouth chav decide to sit next to you and yell loudly into his/her phone for the entire journey.

But alas, trains are getting busier and the old habits are returning as furlough money is running out and the mutant hoards have no longer any choice but to return.

Roll on the next pandemic

[Super Sonic]

Going over level crossings.

[sunnygym]

Seems like people are settling back into the good old ways again…..

One bloke brushing his teeth with an electric toothbrush on the 7am to London and the fella sitting in front of him with his glasses on upside down.

That’s all

[surveyor]

3 Londoners heading home plenty of fosters, FaceTime.

Their mates had a baby calling it hope, he wanted a boy.

All the carriage has been informed

[captain_cynic]

surveyor said:

3 Londoners heading home plenty of fosters, FaceTime.

Their mates had a baby calling it hope, he wanted a boy.

All the carriage has been informed

I hope you had a diet coke... if he wasn't drinking beer I don't see why you should

Seriously though, I hate people who can't be quiet in public. No-one cares about your petty life, fat wife or ugly kids. Just shut up and be miserable like the rest of the carriage. Doubly so on planes.

[Cotty]

captain_cynic said:

Seriously though, I hate people who can't be quiet in public. No-one cares about your petty life, fat wife or ugly kids. Just shut up and be miserable like the rest of the carriage. Doubly so on planes.

I always have headphones with me to drown out any annoying people.

[DonkeyApple]

captain_cynic said:

surveyor said:

3 Londoners heading home plenty of fosters, FaceTime.

Their mates had a baby calling it hope, he wanted a boy.

All the carriage has been informed

I hope you had a diet coke... if he wasn't drinking beer I don't see why you should

Seriously though, I hate people who can't be quiet in public. No-one cares about your petty life, fat wife or ugly kids. Just shut up and be miserable like the rest of the carriage. Doubly so on planes.

Yet no one ever tells them.

[captain_cynic]

DonkeyApple said:

captain_cynic said:

surveyor said:

3 Londoners heading home plenty of fosters, FaceTime.

Their mates had a baby calling it hope, he wanted a boy.

All the carriage has been informed

I hope you had a diet coke... if he wasn't drinking beer I don't see why you should

Seriously though, I hate people who can't be quiet in public. No-one cares about your petty life, fat wife or ugly kids. Just shut up and be miserable like the rest of the carriage. Doubly so on planes.

Yet no one ever tells them.

This kind of scum has no pride, no sense of self worth and even less self awareness. They've essentially nothing to lose by escalating an argument.

If you decide to confront them they'll just get even louder, either you back down or become loud yourself. Then you become the very annoyance you sought to destroy.

[david-j8694]

Sa Calobra said:

TameRacingDriver said:

I don’t get the train often, but when I do, I’ll watch whatever I want. I wont be going out of my way to show everyone else what I’m watching, unlike you who seemed to be going out of their way to watch what was on his laptop. If you had words with me, I’d be telling you to ps off, frankly.

It's not hard to do. It reflects perfectly on the window next touch like a projector, people behind say 2-3 people depending if you sit in a aisle seat or if someone is stood up walking towards. If my 7yr old saw and mentioned it or I noticed you'd be turning your porn/fetish/violence off and apologising before moving off with your bags to another carriage.

Whilst I wouldn't normally be in the mood for backing down to some stiff on a train, I'm not sure I could be bothered getting into an argument with a parent. Never a more blind or ignorant person exists in any public place than some drone travelling with their offspring. Every other human becomes immediately invisible to them.