Meme showcasing the lack of evolution of British rail

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[–] 53 points 1 year ago (7 children)

☝️🤓 Um, actually, the 4-decade-old "Pacer" (pictured) was retired a few years ago.

It was replaced by the exciting new "Sprinter", merely 40 years old.

Wow! So futuristic!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I've always loved Britain's impotent vehicle aesthetic. It's just so adorable, like watching bunnies.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I used to work at Paddington Station, I'm sure we had streamlined trains.

    Also, don't we have pendolinos anymore?

    Gotta admit, the old school high air resistance trains look cute though.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    It's very dependent on which region, which route and which train company you're travelling with.

    From a Yorkshire perspective, if your train runs North-South through bigger cities i.e. Edinburgh, Newcastle, York, Leeds, The South etc, without stopping at small in-between stations, you get 100 people on a 10 carriage long futuristic aerodynamic LNER Azuma Class 800 train, that feels like a luxury private jet and travels at 125mph.

    If your train travels East-West and stops at places like Halifax, Bradford, Wakefield, Selby, Hull, but also stops at little in-between stations called stuff like Boggy Fence, Coaltown, Upper Frogbottom, Chough, Milton-upon-Jeremy and Thribblewick, you get 400 people squashed onto a 2 carriage Northern Rail Sprinter, that feels like a livestock wagon and travels at 30mph. It's perfectly pleasant outside of commuter times, to be fair.

    When the train is stopping at stations 5 miles apart, there's not a lot of room for big fancy trains to do big fancy train things like "accelerate smoothly and aerodynamically" and "brake gently and quietly like a falling leaf".

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    Don't forget America!

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    You were going to get modern rail, but conservatives are bastards.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Well we've invested more into HSR than any of those countries combined. Well it's not quite finished Well it doesn't run the length of was intended quite a bit shorter Yes cancelled you say right

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Sigh, why did you pick Russia?

    They are using German trains from Siemens.

    You could have put France instead and had a cool picture of the TGV.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Laughs in amtrak

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago
    [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I think you mean https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/07/22/16/PA-41241237%20copy.jpg

    [Image of a rail replacement bus service]

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The little train that… awww, mum, effort, stop nagging me, can’t be bothered!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    German rail is not doing too hot these days either.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    It's funny that the country that invented trains has worse trains than the US.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What are you talking about, America is the worst at it by a mile

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    By a mile? How many miles of operational rail do we have? Now how many miles do you have? The US has approximately 140,000, mi. There is approximately 10,000 mi of rail across Great Britain and Northern Ireland........

    As my British friend Tom used to say

    Mate you fucking flunked your maths schooling didn't ya.

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