Tongue in cheek????????

[Dorsetmike]

Britain’s rail operators, the entire scientific community and 1,439 passengers were in shock today as First Capital Connect published tentative proof of their Brighton to Bedford service arriving at London Bridge 20 seconds before it was meant to.


Bill Gosbee, a spokesperson for the company, says they were as surprised as everyone else when one of their trains breached the supposedly unbreakable ‘On-Time Barrier’; a key extrapolation from Thatcher’s First Law of Privatisation.


‘I can assure everyone we weren’t trying to achieve this result. We’ve done this thousands of times and have never seen any evidence that OT, let alone faster-than-OT, travel was possible.’

 

[marval]

HaHa, good one Mike, it is not something that happens very often. At least it prooves it can be done.


Margaret

 

[Dorsetmike]

When they privatised the railways, Maggie thatcher said the trains would run on time, so for every 100 miles of journey they added at least 10 minutes to the timetable, more if the train stopped at a lot of stations.

Some journeys now take as long or longer with electric or diesel power than they did in 1900 with steam.

 

[teddy]

You cannot beat steam Mike

teddy