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« Reply #30 on: June 16, 2019, 22:37:05 »
Quote from: infoman on June 15, 2019, 05:55:51
2) Human beings announcements

Most of all at Cardiff Central, where you get that irritating shouty "not for passenger use" man deciding to negate TfW's entire Welsh language policy by interrupting the Welsh-first announcements and shouting exactly the same thing several times in English only in a thick Cardiff accent. That guy definitely belongs in Room 101, or failing that a ticket hut in Coryton or one of those branch line stations.

Whilst we're putting Cardiff Central's staff in Room 101 or ticket huts on branch line stations, those pointless customer-be-damned orange bibs on the Valley Lines platforms are ripe candidates for redeployment.
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« Reply #31 on: June 17, 2019, 10:45:56 »
I'm surprised I can't see replacement bus services.  Especially if they miss the next train. Happened to my son saturday bus substitution  Hounslow - Staines. Express bus arrives Staines to see Reading train pulling out!

Apologies if its been thrown in already.
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« Reply #32 on: June 17, 2019, 15:54:27 »
The worst combination of words in the English language, rail and replacement. The only people who like those words together is your local bus operator as a lucrative money making opportunity comes up.
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