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    ‘Squeaky bum time’: il nuovo orario ferroviario della Gran Bretagna entrerà in vigore questo fine settimana

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    1. do_or_pie on

      The headline and copy is a bit too salacious for my liking (then again this is the same journo that misrepresented the 7am Manchester train story)

      1) Rail timetables change every 6 months

      2) The 2018 timetable was a shambles because it was ~~post-pandemic when cut services were not brought back~~ (totally misremembered , will have to read [the government report](https://www.orr.gov.uk/monitoring-regulation/rail/investigations/may-2018-network-disruption) about it again)
      But if you do commute, this is your warning to check your Monday morning train.

    2. Otherwise_Koala4289 on

      The new timetable I’m getting seems like it’s been designed to personally make my train use more annoying.

      My regular morning commute train has been moved 9 mins earlier. One day a week I drop my son at nursery and then get the train, and that train has been moved 8 minutes earlier, which means I won’t be able to get it.

      Well, at least I’ll get home earlier at the end of the day, I thought. Nope, my train home has been moved 15 minutes later. And the one before that I sometimes just make by a minute has been moved 6 minutes earlier, which means I’ll never make it.

      Also the weekend trains into London are now going to take 42 minutes rather than 30.

      Thanks guys!

    3. 4tunabrix on

      Where did this whole ‘squeaky bum time’ thing come from? I see this phrase popping up more and more these days and I’ve got to be honest, I hate it.

    4. bownyboy on

      16 years ago our fast train to Waterloo took 24 minutes and the slow trains were 28 minutes. Now the fast train is 29 minutes and the slow train 39 minutes.

      That’s progress for you.

    5. ash_ninetyone on

      This all feels like the strategy the bus company here did to make our buses run “on time”

      They moved departure time at each stop incrementally a minute back, and then took one bus off.

      That was it. Public transport fixed. Thanks guys 🙄

    6. Lainspark on

      The new timetable has absolutely fucked my finely balanced morning routine that allowed me to drop my child at nursery and still make the train in time to get to work.

      Moving the last fast train half an hour earlier means I have to pay the nursery extra so I can drop my child before the official opening time and then sit around at work for an extra half an hour. Time I should be spending with my child.

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