Why I no longer travel by train

Kite2010

agrinnall wrote: »

Please feel free to locate the two people who told me and call them liars to their faces - or might it be that perhaps you haven't been on every single new train on the route?

The only Electric trains which run between Queen Street High Level & Edinburgh which don't have power sockets are the "365"s (Happy Trains), and those certainly are not 'new' [temporary cast-offs from London due to the delays with the Hitachi units]



The "385" services [the new trains] have sockets below & between the seats, not the easiest to locate but that location seems to be the preferred place for sockets on Hitachi UK trains. The older "380s" only have plug sockets on the wall in the bays of 4.

Hasbeen

Kite2010 wrote: »

The only Electric trains which run between Queen Street High Level & Edinburgh which don't have power sockets are the "365"s (Happy Trains), and those certainly are not 'new' [temporary cast-offs from London due to the delays with the Hitachi units]



The "385" services [the new trains] have sockets below & between the seats, not the easiest to locate but that location seems to be the preferred place for sockets on Hitachi UK trains. The older "380s" only have plug sockets on the wall in the bays of 4.

That is correct. But people usually misinterpret the term "new" as different

buglawton

Anyone remember the Top Gear programme where they proved that for 4 travelling from SE England to the Midlands, it was cheaper to buy a used car, tax + insure it and fill the tank, do the journey then scrap the car?

I think they got a tidy and comfortable Mondeo (yeah that dates it).

Barny1979

Mids_Costcutter wrote: »

Are there any other European countries where you've been impressed with the rail system?

Slovakia
Poland
Russia
Austria
Bulgaria
Lithuania

to name a few.