Ah I’m getting treated to that legendary Eurostar premium service! Train Paris Nord to Liège is +20, delay of incoming train Where am I told this? Eurostar app ❌ Email ❌ Push notification ❌ SNCF Connect app ❌ DB Navigator ❌ Screen in station ✅ So WHY NOT SHARE THE DATA? 😡 - ThreadSky

jon.gruene.social.ap.brid.gy • 14 days ago

Ah

I’m getting treated to that legendary Eurostar premium service!

Train Paris Nord to Liège is +20, delay of incoming train

Where am I told this?

Eurostar app ❌
Email ❌
Push notification ❌
SNCF Connect app ❌
DB Navigator ❌
Screen in station ✅

So WHY NOT SHARE THE DATA? 😡

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rvdborgt.bsky.social•14 days ago

I now see the delays on the SNCF, NMBS and DB websites. Also on the Eurostar website, but I suspect that's manual input or copied from SNCF, since it doesn't match with the actual delays as reported by NMBS and DB. IIRC the infrastructure managers share the data.

jon.gruene.social.ap.brid.gy•14 days ago

And because Eurostar is more obsessed about checking tickets than it is about ontime running, rather that let passengers walk along the 400m platform to board quickly once the train arrives, they’re holding them in the hall instead, and let them through once […] https://gruene.social/@jon/114386217766314149

markhburton.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•14 days ago

@jon
Yes it's bizarre. Barcelona does much the same waiting for AVE or TGV, except there you wait in a queue or on v limited seats.
"Security".

jon.gruene.social.ap.brid.gy•14 days ago

@markhburton Yep. That’s absurd in a slightly different way!

cstross.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy•14 days ago

@jon @markhburton Does the UK heavily fine a rail operator for bringing someone with invalid papers into the UK the same way they do truckers, airlines, and everyone else? Because that would be a possible reason for checking tickets before boarding … in which case, blame HMG: any other rail […]

jon.gruene.social.ap.brid.gy•14 days ago

@cstross @markhburton errr I’m going from Paris to Liège 🤷‍♂️

cstross.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy•14 days ago

@jon @markhburton Oh boy. Then they REALLY hate their customers! (Mind you, Amtrak did that shit last time I caught a train in the USA. They do their best to make air travel as easy and convenient as civil aviation. /s)

jon.gruene.social.ap.brid.gy•14 days ago

1) this is an ex-Thalys Eurostar Paris-Köln, I’m going to Liège. So new foot and mouth restrictions to go to the UK don’t apply. But I’m sorry, I can’t put “ex-Thalys Eurostar” in every post!

2) I’ve taken it too damned much. It’s not the first time I’ve experienced their boarding cock ups when […]

jon.gruene.social.ap.brid.gy•14 days ago

Slightly excessive

8 security personnel to get one poor homeless guy to leave a bench on the platform at Liège Guillemins!

heliomass.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy•14 days ago

@jon We see this on the Montreal Metro a lot too. The police tend to turn up en-mass to remove one homeless person.

jon.gruene.social.ap.brid.gy•14 days ago

So 14:08, 15:08 and 16:08 Drielandentrein are ALL cancelled. So I found three others going to Maastricht and now we’re in a taxi

jon.gruene.social.ap.brid.gy•14 days ago

Aaaand… there’s a Drielandentrein parked up at Maastricht. But the knackered old SNCB EMU will run it seems!

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