Saturday, October 6, 2007

A pictorial guide to grade-A idiocy

If you've read The 7:46 to Bristol then you'll know about the busy, expensive high speed service being deliberately stuck behind the pissy little stopping service on the way to Bristol in the mornings. If not, these pictures won't make any sense. Might be an idea to go read all about the idiocy first.

Anyway, here's how the idiocy looks, cartoon-train-style.

This is the 7:46 from London to Bristol:



Quite big, isn't it? Lots of people on there.

Here's the shitty stopping service:



Quite small, isn't it? And slow. Jam packed with people because, actually, it's too small, but then there's already been a big protest about that so I'm concentrating on the rubbishness of the high speed services for now.

If only, I hear you cry, we could see both these trains next to each other, then we'd really see how utterly idiotic Third Rate Western are.



Hurrah!

Next time, a conundrum for you: Why are we stopping?

1 comment:

UKTrainMan said...

The express trains actually take longer to dispatch because of the stupid passengers you (thankfully) mentioned earlier on in your blogging who fail to close the f*cking door behind them and so if you put it in-front of the stopper chances are that the stopper would catch it up then be delayed until a suitable passing point (if such a thing existed) where it can then delay the express even more and then this would likely mean a further train being delayed, so perhaps the stopper in-front of the express is a better idea in the first place.