The route that has caused me most problems is Manchester->York [usually on a train destined to terminate at Sunderland].
The eastwest routes seem to be in worse condition in many ways than the east-coast and west-coast main lines.
Yet you wait in vain to hear calls for public enquiries into the deadly state of the road transport system.
In fact there are many such calls on a local level - they just don't get into the national press unless something drastic happens.
The national press would rather winge about speed cameras making it expensive to wave their dicks in public [sorry, I meant 'drive sports cars as it is there right to']...
Correct my if I'm wrong, but weren't three of those caused by track problems, and isn't the train company independent of the track company?
Correct. It is this dispirsion or responsability that causes some of the major problems with our rail system, especially as every company involved is trying to take as littel responsability as it can in order to save time/money.
If a train operator ignores track problems reported by drivers [in the case of Potter's Bar IIRC] because "that's not our counter" and the track maintenance company thinks it can keep cutting corners because no body has complained yet...
You obviously haven't tried to travel east from Manchester at peek times have you?
Trains vanishing off the time-table with little or no explination [trains that don't arrive at all don't figure against the network's punctuallity targets!], so you have to wait another 30 mins for a train that is too small for rush time but now also has TWO trains worth of people crammed in...
Try using your laptop in those conditions! [Admitedly this route is run by Arriva, not GNER]
Funfunfun.
Yes. If you install from the network, there is no need worry about up to date packages. Make sure to tell it you're installing unstable.
Actually, tell it you're installing 'sid'. Otherwise...
Actually, I believe that unsable has always been, and always will be, called Sid [go watch ToyStory again if you can't work out why!] so this won't make any difference.
When Sarge becomes 'stable', replacing Woody, Sid will not become 'testing' - it will be copied to 'testing' and given a new name.
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The route that has caused me most problems is Manchester->York [usually on a train destined to terminate at Sunderland]. The eastwest routes seem to be in worse condition in many ways than the east-coast and west-coast main lines.
In fact there are many such calls on a local level - they just don't get into the national press unless something drastic happens. The national press would rather winge about speed cameras making it expensive to wave their dicks in public [sorry, I meant 'drive sports cars as it is there right to']...
Correct my if I'm wrong, but weren't three of those caused by track problems, and isn't the train company independent of the track company? Correct. It is this dispirsion or responsability that causes some of the major problems with our rail system, especially as every company involved is trying to take as littel responsability as it can in order to save time/money. If a train operator ignores track problems reported by drivers [in the case of Potter's Bar IIRC] because "that's not our counter" and the track maintenance company thinks it can keep cutting corners because no body has complained yet...
You obviously haven't tried to travel east from Manchester at peek times have you? Trains vanishing off the time-table with little or no explination [trains that don't arrive at all don't figure against the network's punctuallity targets!], so you have to wait another 30 mins for a train that is too small for rush time but now also has TWO trains worth of people crammed in... Try using your laptop in those conditions! [Admitedly this route is run by Arriva, not GNER] Funfunfun.
Actually, tell it you're installing 'sid'. Otherwise...
Actually, I believe that unsable has always been, and always will be, called Sid [go watch ToyStory again if you can't work out why!] so this won't make any difference.
When Sarge becomes 'stable', replacing Woody, Sid will not become 'testing' - it will be copied to 'testing' and given a new name.