On 30/07/2010 20:28, D7666 wrote:
On Jul 30, 8:23 pm, Mizter wrote:

Since when was first hand experience a requisite before offering up
criticism?!

I find it helps to be informed by serious research that includes
actual visits and travel.

New round here, are you?

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

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Mizter T wrote:


On Jul 30, 8:18*pm, D7666 wrote:

On Jul 30, 8:16*pm, Mizter T wrote:

Perhaps the masses of uk.railway don't much care for new Underground
trains?

Possibly.

However, the masses of uk.railway are all too well ready to criticise
new trains.

If they don't actually go and travel on them, how can they comment
from first hand experience ?

Since when was first hand experience a requisite before offering up
criticism?!

Even first hand experience is not admisable when it conflicts with certain
peoples' prejudices. Witness the almost vicious attack on me by Mr Traction
Motor when I dared to say I could see out of a Voyager window.

--
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On 30 July, 21:21, Mizter T wrote:
On Jul 30, 9:03*pm, D7666 wrote:

On Jul 30, 8:51*pm, Mizter T wrote:

Sorry Nick but I think informed comment is rather out of fashion these
days - have you ever tried just making it up? ;-)

I noticed and no .

I always find the the bits in Private Eye that occasionally rumble a
newspaper's theatre review as being a work of fiction particularly
delicious... e.g. "x playing Balthasar was particularly expressive"
being an interesting concept in existentialism when x spent his
evening with his head down the toilet whilst the role of Balthasar was
fulfilled by his understudy.

You mean like how people who already know that they like to look out
of windows won't be aware that transverse seating has now been
introduced throughout? That will be nice.

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On Jul 30, 2:19 pm, "
wrote:
On 30/07/2010 20:32, 1506 wrote:



Being a former Met. Line user I am keen to hear what these trains
are like. It will be sad to see the A60/A62 stock go. But, it
really is aging. From what I hear it is not as comfortable as it
once was.

Their speeds are restricted now because of micro cracks in the bogies


Thank you. I had heard that their ride had gotten rougher over the
years. In the 1960s they were rather good trains. Compared with the
DMUs on the same route, they were almost futuristic.

They are quite bouncy, especially compared to the modern DMUs with which
they share tracks to Amersham. But I fear that the new S Stock trains
will be less popular, thanks to the modern trend to rock-hard seats, and
fewer of them. Their extra speed won't be realised for a while, so the
service will be no quicker or more frequent (in fact, less frequent to
Amersham).

MIG wrote:


You mean like how people who already know that they like to look out
of windows won't be aware that transverse seating has now been
introduced throughout? That will be nice.

It hasn't been introduced throughout. Trust me on this one.

Tom

P.S. They're very nice, shiny trains, although the ride is a bit iffy in
places.

On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Tim Fenton wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote in message
...

I always find the the bits in Private Eye that occasionally rumble a
newspaper's theatre review as being a work of fiction particularly
delicious

The original was in the B&W comedy "Only Two Can Play", where a local
journalist (Peter Sellers) sends his review of a first night in without
going to see the play, as he was playing away. Unfortunately for him,
the theatre burnt down during the performance.

The DVD of 'The Day Today' has a very good version of this hidden in the
music on the title screen (you have to leave it there for quite a while
before it gets round to it) where Chris Morris is talking to Peter
O'Hanraha-Hanrahan about a world trade organisation meeting he claims to
have attended that day. In room 107 of the World Trade Centre. That day
being the 11th of September 2001.

tom

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What we learn about is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our
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