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[-] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago

☝️🤓 Um, actually, the 4-decade-old "Pacer" (pictured) was retired a few years ago.

It was replaced by the exciting new "Sprinter", merely 40 years old.

Wow! So futuristic!

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

So the 40 year old was replaced with a 40 year old

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I've always loved Britain's impotent vehicle aesthetic. It's just so adorable, like watching bunnies.

[-] DakRalter 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I used to work at Paddington Station, I'm sure we had streamlined trains.

Also, don't we have pendolinos anymore?

Gotta admit, the old school high air resistance trains look cute though.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's very dependent on which region, which route and which train company you're travelling with.

From a Yorkshire perspective, if your train runs North-South through bigger cities i.e. Edinburgh, Newcastle, York, Leeds, The South etc, without stopping at small in-between stations, you get 100 people on a 10 carriage long futuristic aerodynamic LNER Azuma Class 800 train, that feels like a luxury private jet and travels at 125mph.

If your train travels East-West and stops at places like Halifax, Bradford, Wakefield, Selby, Hull, but also stops at little in-between stations called stuff like Boggy Fence, Coaltown, Upper Frogbottom, Chough, Milton-upon-Jeremy and Thribblewick, you get 400 people squashed onto a 2 carriage Northern Rail Sprinter, that feels like a livestock wagon and travels at 30mph. It's perfectly pleasant outside of commuter times, to be fair.

When the train is stopping at stations 5 miles apart, there's not a lot of room for big fancy trains to do big fancy train things like "accelerate smoothly and aerodynamically" and "brake gently and quietly like a falling leaf".

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The Class 800 may have seats made from cardboard, but they do at least look like they were designed this century.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm kinda surprised there hasn't been a retrofit of some kind to at least make an attempt at aerodynamics for it. I guess it would be minimal efficiency savings.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't forget America!

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

Fun fact, in the US, we have 3 train derailments per day.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Sigh, why did you pick Russia?

They are using German trains from Siemens.

You could have put France instead and had a cool picture of the TGV.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

It's honestly kind of wild to not pick France in general, they're amazing at trains

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Well, when they're not striking.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I didn't make it, just posted it.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Because I found it amusing

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The point isn't who made what, it's who's using what.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I think simply having the trains is the point.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

You were going to get modern rail, but conservatives are bastards.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Well we've invested more into HSR than any of those countries combined. Well it's not quite finished Well it doesn't run the length of was intended quite a bit shorter Yes cancelled you say right

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Laughs in amtrak

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I think you mean https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/07/22/16/PA-41241237%20copy.jpg

[Image of a rail replacement bus service]

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Doesn't count. That's New York. Basically it's own country.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The little train that… awww, mum, effort, stop nagging me, can’t be bothered!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The little engine that didn't wanna.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's funny that the country that invented trains has worse trains than the US.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I wouldn't go that far.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

What are you talking about, America is the worst at it by a mile

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ehhhhhhhh, considering the UK is basically the same size as ONE midwestern state ... it's highly debatable as to who has failed worse. (note: both are still abysmal failures, but one country has a goal post MUCH closer than the other)

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

By a mile? How many miles of operational rail do we have? Now how many miles do you have? The US has approximately 140,000, mi. There is approximately 10,000 mi of rail across Great Britain and Northern Ireland........

As my British friend Tom used to say

Mate you fucking flunked your maths schooling didn't ya.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Your comment shouldn't be downvoted, it's certainly debatable who has the worse rail

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

All I'm saying is Amtrak hasn't folded and rebranded three different times in the last decade. https://youtu.be/IayST598Vxo

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It certainly doesn’t.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Nah mate that’s a massive exaggeration. US rail is absolutely centuries behind UK rail.

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