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UK's National Rail Shuts Down Free Timetable App

Posted by timothy on from the hey-buddy-we-said-often-not-always dept.

JHaselden points to this "sad tale of one developer's trying time with the National Rail, the owners of the UK's train timetable data, which flies in the face of the recent assertion of Chris Scoggins (Chief Executive, National Rail Enquiries) in Wired recently stating that they had 'opened up' their data, 'often free of charge.'" This is a good case for keeping your old emails handy; the app's author uses cut-and-paste to excellent effect in his correspondence with the rail system.

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  1. Syummary written by a 'tard by Hognoxious · · Score: -1, Troll

    One, the name of the organisation is National Rail. No "the" in front, unless you're talking about a long piece of metal owned by the whole population. You don't send bug reports to the Micropsoft, do you?

    Two, you cannot converse with a "rail system".

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    1. Re:Syummary written by a 'tard by HungryHobo · · Score: 0, Troll

      "that is those "

      nice

  2. Re:Web services are a stupid idea. by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 0, Troll

    That would be son of a silly person. Further, he should have been told to boil his bottom.

    No nerd cred for you.

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