19-01-2024, 10:27 PM
(19-01-2024, 02:01 PM)Cunninglinguist Wrote:(19-01-2024, 08:45 AM)exgaffer Wrote:Fuck me, it’s Hammie with attitude(19-01-2024, 06:50 AM)Cunninglinguist Wrote:(18-01-2024, 11:05 PM)exgaffer Wrote: Well bearing in mind the rest of the railway infrastructure in Pompey, with four of the ropeyest stations in the country and a signalling system that is not fit for purpose, my hopes are not high.
Surely, if the signalling system wasn’t fit for purpose, trains would crash on a regular basis?
Yes very drive Cunning .
They don’t really n often enough to crash ffs.
The signaling system is supposed to ensure the safe and smooth running of trains, which is all well and good when it’s working. One of the most regular announcements we regular train users hear is ‘the train is delayed by a fault in the signaling system’, the only announcement you hear more frequently is ‘we are sorry that your journey will take longer than planned’. If the signals aren’t working all the signals are on red and the trains have to stop at every signal and be talked through it. It was more efficient when you had actual humans in signal boxes controlling things manually.
The stations are a disgrace, lifts out of order most of the time, ditto the toilets (if there are any and those are always closed at night anyway). Trains and stations are better almost everywhere else ffs. The stations and trains are filthy too.
So I repeat ‘not fit for purpose’.
As we invebted the fucking things you’d think we’d do a better job
its heart breaking all the things that we invented and are too fkin tight/uneducated to run these days.
Nuclear power stations, paying the cheese eaters to build them for us, for starters!