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Recent content by Scotrail12

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    Scotrail HSTs - 4-5 years in

    Going to Aberdeen on the 1041 today...or was because yet another instance of the HST being swapped out for a crappy 170. Going to try via Edinburgh instead. It's really annoying that these HSTs are so unreliable.
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    LNER running trains empty to Glasgow Central

    Just been in Central and saw an LNER Azuma train sitting empty on Platform 2. Looked at RealTimeTrains and saw that it was scheduled to run empty from Edinburgh to Glasgow and back, however operated to/from King's Cross either side. Why are they running this train empty? If it's starting at...
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    Grand Union's proposed Stirling – Euston service now authorised by ORR

    As an ex Coatbridge resident, it's fairly obvious to me why they've went for Whifflet over Central. Whifflet has a small parking area and is generally a better equipped, more well maintained station. Coatbridge Central is a tiny station with very few facilities and is absolutely ghastly -...
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    Conscription.

    I learned during COVID not to read the mainstream news and my mental health is much better for it. Way too much scaremongering going on.
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    Where have you been in the world?

    Scotland (home country), England, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Norway, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, USA, Canada, Bermuda, St Maarten, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Belgium, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Jamaica, Mexico, Wales, Austria, Germany, Bahamas, St Thomas (USVI), St Kitts, Netherlands...
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    British Airways

    Is it just me or are they now a JOKE of an airline? Just returned this morning from Miami to Edinburgh via Heathrow and it has to be one of the worst ever travelling experiences I've had. It was an A380 for the Miami leg and probably the worst legroom I've had. I couldn't believe this was the...
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    Remaining Effects of Covid

    Shout out to Delta Air Lines for doing contact tracing in August 2023.
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    Celia Drummond replacement

    ATOS Anne is pretty bad IMO, I could never imagine her voice in Glasgow Central or Edinburgh Waverley. Keep her in England please. Love Alison McKay's voice, though she did scare me a little bit as a child. I wish ScotRail or another company would use her again.
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    Has customer service gotten worse since the pandemic?

    I feel like people in customer service have became increasingly difficult to deal with since the pandemic, and am wondering if others feel the same. Staff are seldom friendly (particularly if they're of the younger generation - I'm 21 myself so not being ageist) and it feels like corners are...
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    ScotRail - charged Anytime return for off-peak train

    After seeing this, I ran out to the station to double check and it was fully closed at 20.35 tonight. So those opening hours (though listed on both National Rail and ScotRail sites) are most definitely untrue. I have never once seen the office open on a Sunday.
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    ScotRail - charged Anytime return for off-peak train

    I was on the 1617 from High Street to Blairhill earlier, and was charged £7.20 for a return ticket on this route. I have taken this particular train on a Sunday almost every week for 2 years and have always been charged between £4 & £4.50 (fares have increased a little bit every so often). I was...
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    England's late 20th century good old days - reality or rose-tinted?

    As a gay person, I would have hated living in 1980s Scotland and certainly think it would have been a miserable childhood for someone like me at that time period due to societal expectations. I was never the typical boy and hated stuff like football, I'd have gotten all sorts of crap for that in...
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    England's late 20th century good old days - reality or rose-tinted?

    As a 2001 baby, I'd have been curious to live through the 90s. Any earlier than that, nah. Too much oppression in too many countries. I'm not really envious of previous generations' lives. Certainly I do have nostalgia for the 2000s before social media and technology really took over things...
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    Eurovision

    Croatia were the best act and I loved Mel Giedroyc's commentary.

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