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Dec 2018
1:24pm, 4 Dec 2018
20,246 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Why is that train ticket thing Archaic? If you buy a service from a particular company you cannot expect to use that service from some other company surely?
It is not archaic, that means old fashioned, it is just a modern manifestation brought about by inept privatisation of an important service.
See Electricity, gas, telecommunications....
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Dec 2018
1:36pm, 4 Dec 2018
39,576 posts
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GlennR
It actually helps offer a choice. From Cambridge we have a faster, more expensive service to King’s Cross and a slower, cheaper one to Liverpool Street. You can use King’s Cross tickets to and from Liverpool Street, but not the other way round. Same with the slower services from Birmingham to London.
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Dec 2018
5:51pm, 4 Dec 2018
17,505 posts
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ChrisHB
Because John Major's government thought it ws better to offer 'choice' in public services than quality or affordability.
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Dec 2018
6:30pm, 4 Dec 2018
39,588 posts
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GlennR
Let’s not kid ourselves there was any quality under British Rail.
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Dec 2018
7:55pm, 4 Dec 2018
17,507 posts
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ChrisHB
That is debatable, but I was thinking more about 'choice' in the NHS or schooling where what is required is good quality, not 'choice' starting with needs improvement.
To use my argument against myself, until May this year I had a choice of fast or slow trains to London. Now I only have slow and particularly on the return journey, abysmally slow.
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Dec 2018
9:18pm, 4 Dec 2018
3,667 posts
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Cyclopstheoneeyedreindeer
When you sniff a lighted candle, you can hear your nose hairs singeing...
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Dec 2018
9:20pm, 4 Dec 2018
7,811 posts
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Valyrian Partridge
I guess you also now know what burning hair smells like 
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Dec 2018
9:26pm, 4 Dec 2018
3,668 posts
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Cyclopstheoneeyedreindeer
Lol!! Yep.
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Dec 2018
9:48pm, 4 Dec 2018
39,592 posts
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GlennR
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Dec 2018
10:59pm, 5 Dec 2018
2,960 posts
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Fizz :-)
Fetch doesn't like strava.
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