Where are you on the transport network?

[A380]

if only that were the case. there is now greater 'churn' of buildings as those of recent construction have increasingly brief lives. i used to work in a building near aldgate east which was built in the 1970s and has now been torn down and a new block of flats built on them. the buildings in dalston square are expected to have lives shorter than 20 years. when they're replaced i doubt their successors will have a lifespan longer than that. and apart from it all being shit building it has the greater failing of being plug ugly to boot.

Often being pug ugly, or at least dull, is a design criteria. If you have a site strategy of redevelopment every 20 years you don’t want an architectural gem that might get listed and bugger up the plan.

 

[A380]

B F NS

 

[Dogsauce]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

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Porto?

 

[Dogsauce]

Porto?

Yep. Visit it quite a bit with family over there, like the relatively compact layout & general efficiency of the place, let down a bit today by the fucking mess BA had made of our booking which meant an hour and a half at check in while they tried to sort it out, only just making it onto the flight.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I liked Porto very much when I went there, especially a large graveyard which had little houses filled with coffins, which is a bit odd I guess.

 

[chainsawjob]

Spoiler: In case anyone wants to hazard a guess

Southampton docks

 

[A380]

Budapest metro line 1. It’s like a half scale model of the New York subway and makes trains n the Waterloo and City line seem huge. It’s brilliant.

 

[A380]

Bratislava Station

 

[A380]

 

[planetgeli]

Budapest metro line 1. It’s like a half scale model of the New York subway and makes trains n the Waterloo and City line seem huge. It’s brilliant.

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Been on that. Know what you mean.

 

[teuchter]

Budapest metro line 1. It’s like a half scale model of the New York subway and makes trains n the Waterloo and City line seem huge. It’s brilliant.

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You should try the glasgow subway.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

B F NS

As it should be known for ever more.

It would look a lot better if they painted the ceiling - all that dark concrete caked with diesel fumes makes it look terrible. Perhaps decorate it with psychedelic patterns and copious numbers of disco balls.

 

[bimble]

A380 did you get to look around Brno? (Its where my dad’s from and I’ve never been)

 

[A380]

A380 did you get to look around Brno? (Its where my dad’s from and I’ve never been)

Sadly no. The central area looked really nice though. The industrial suburbs more ‘industrial’.

 

[A380]

 

[A380]

It doesn’t really fit here: but at Dresden Station they have little conveyor belts for your bags on the stairs! Is this new all over Germany?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Nice idea, but...Why don't they just have escalators where you can stand with your bag next to you?

 

[teuchter]

I think I've seen those things in German (and other countries') stations for some years.

It's obviously less costly and disruptive to install a small conveyor belt than an escalator which takes up loads more space and is much more complex.

 

[A380]

Nice idea, but...Why don't they just have escalators where you can stand with your bag next to you?

The weird thing is, at Dresden anyway, they do. It’s a fairly standard underpass under the tracks with two ways up to each platform. One with escalators and one with stairs and these conveyers. I was sad enough to take a video of my bag BTW, but I can’t post it.

But even cooler was the automatic lift/funicular railway at Meissen. Like the one by the Millenium bridge but up 200 ft in about 50! (See my sad post on the funicular thread...)

 

[A380]

I’m not getting off today though. And my train is 62 minutes late and the wifi isn’t working. So much for Teutonic efficiency.

 

[Cornichon]

It's not an exception. That happens all the time.
You can be glad that wifi was available at all - even though it wasn't working. And that the trip wasn't cancelled due to 'unforseeable maintenance work' that lasts about two days because a tree had fallen on the tracks somewhere.
In fact... 62 minutes isn't too bad for their standards.

Deutsche Bahn are not what you'd call customer friendly. They somehow don't seem to find it necessary to include the comfort of travellers into their company policy.

 

[teuchter]

10 or 20 years ago DB were possibly the best operator in Europe. It seems no more, sadly. I don't think they are really any better than the service we get in the UK, much as the standard indignant british rail traveller likes to proclaim "this would never happen in Germany/France" whenever anything goes wrong.
DB are also in the process of making a bit of a mess of their freight operation in the UK, as far as I can tell.

 

[A380]

Hamburg container port.

 

[marty21]

Bethnal Green

 

[A380]

Gare du Nord

 

[Sea Star]

I was there in 1993. I asked for a beer while I waited for my train - and thought it was a chance to give my O level French a bit of an airing.

The man served me an orange juice!

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I was there in 1993. I asked for a beer while I waited for my train - and thought it was a chance to give my O level French a bit of an airing.

The man served me an orange juice!

 

[marty21]

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I had a holiday in Brno in the early 90s , loved the place

 

[A380]

Madrid Purerta de Atocha.