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#london #paddington #nationalrail #Berlin #hauptbahnhof #deutschebahn Auf dem Foto der Wartebereich London Paddington Station. Da fällt mir wieder direkt auf wie miserabel und menschenfeindlich der Berliner Hauptbahnhof gestaltet und geplant wurde. Ich frage mich ernsthaft was die Architekten damals im Kopf hatten. Welches Ego wurde hier bedient. Ich könnte mir nicht vorstellen dort 3h Stunden auf einen Zug zu warten. Hier in Paddington sehr angenehm und es zieht nicht ☺️

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@actuallyautistic look what I found! I just searched for "autistic guide to national rail" and this came up!

nationalrail.co.uk/help-and-as

Direct link to PDF: assets.nationalrail.co.uk/e8xg

It really goes through everything and has PICTURES!

In other news, when I did a test print 2 days ago, all my ink was fine. Today I try to print my train tickets, guess what, I have no black. I checked the cartridge and there's plenty of ink. I wanted a hard copy just as a backup. Because you never know.

Anyway, tickets are booked and non refundable. My homie better not cancel on me!

@actuallyautistic

www.nationalrail.co.ukAdvice for Autistic Passengers | National RailRead and download An Autism Friendly Guide to Travelling by Train, with everything you need to know about what to expect on your rail journey. The guide was created with help from the National Autistic Society and a rail accessibility working group.
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#CrossChannelRail : Day 2, #Lille - #London - #York - #Harrogate

Thanks to #eurostar delay, no waiting in #KingsCross. Could check platform from #nationalRail live board, had QR code ready, the only thing was to jump above Mr FirstOut who had built a wall of suitcases at carriage door - then remember, twice to the right in #StPancras.

#LNER #London #Edinburgh :
💺 have reservation at front of train, I stopped midway.
🔌 that's alternating current 😵‍💫
🛜 🆗ish
🧽 👏
🧳🆗
☕ 😱

nationalrail.co.uk/live-trains

www.nationalrail.co.ukReal Time Live Trains Board | National RailCheck National Rail live trains real time status and departure boards for all train stations. Get train times, station and platform details before departure.
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@Co_Biologists

Planning my trip from #Grenoble to #Harrogate :
- leave Sunday 3pm
- stay overnight in #Lille
- catch morning #Eurostar + 3h to #Harrogate, in time for #conference opening at 2pm.

- leave Thu 1pm, as it closes: #nationalRail plus #Eurostar
- arrive in #Paris 9pm
- a day of collaborative work in #Paris, then 4pm #TGV to Grenoble, home at 7pm

#flying wouldn't even be more convenient, as I'd also need to leave Sunday (earlier!) and would be home Thu at midnight or so.

I'd like train announcements to be blunt and honest, to possibly shake up impetus to change.
"This train is now very full, apologies to the many passengers standing" should really be "This service is inadequate to meet demand because it is operated by <name the operator>"
"Due to short platform" ... "Disjoint requirements and lack of throughput coordination", etc.
#NationalRail

The UK #NationalRail website has been migrated to Next.js and it all feels like a step backwards 😞

- Home page is 59% JS, 25% font, HTML+CSS is <5% of page weight

- Page Speed mobile scores are atrocious: FCP 2s, LCP 12s, overall perf is 35/100

- Back button behaviour is erratic

- Lack of error handling, network failures (e.g. adblock) prevent further UI updates

- Short station names such as Ely make auto-complete awkward

- No redirects for existing URLs, generic landing pages, goodbye SEO