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Good idea on the location-specific information boards. Would be good if they did the same for the automatic announcements too. Is it really necessary to announce every 2 minutes at stations on the far east of the District line that Harrow to Amersham is suspended?
Could be, if you want to go from Dagenham to Amersham
Anybody got an article brewing on the latest phase of SSR signaling, and the issues that happened a few weeks ago?
@quinlet
Maybe, but there will not be many. And by the time you’ve got as far as Harrow the service may well be running again anyway.
JC,
Half written. I tried to get it out quickly as I knew I would be very busy for the rest of September. I failed. Hopefully, I’ll get it out in October.
The DB thing seems to compare the most expensive airfare with the cheapest rail fare. It’s a creative form of advertising but not exactly based in reality. While obviously a rail journey in Germany is almost always going to be cheaper than a flight across an ocean, it is a bit disingenous for European destinations. For example they claim a flight to London or Prague is over 200 euros while the train is 19 euros, but I have only very rarely found train tickets for 19 euros while flights around Europe can be frequently found for 50 or so euros unless there is some business conference going on. And it is usually possible to fly to Asia or the USA for less than 500 euros from Germany while all the airfares displayed tend to be in the thousands.