Examples of enduring good design?

[theclaud]

At risk of continuing the nerd discussion... oddly enough the reason I head for that space at peak commuting time is because I can usually find a space there. And particularlly useful when smugly carrying the afforementioned Bromton. Maybe it is something to do with which coaches people tend to get on at Reading and Didcot.

Careful, Jonesy - the smug-o-meter is off the scale... But now that you mention getting on the train, WTF is it with the announcements? First of all I would like to welcome customers who might have joined the service at Port Talbot Parkway? FFS. And we all know what buffets sell. It won't be long before the announcements are so long that we'll be at the next station before they end. Sorry - station stop. I think this rant might have taken me off topic...

 

[rich p]

Careful, Jonesy - the smug-o-meter is off the scale... But now that you mention getting on the train, WTF is it with the announcements? First of all I would like to welcome customers who might have joined the service at Port Talbot Parkway? FFS. And we all know what buffets sell. It won't be long before the announcements are so long that we'll be at the next station before they end. Sorry - station stop. I think this rant might have taken me off topic...

Calm down ,dear, and go open another bottle of Chateau Veritte

 

[dellzeqq]

Gresley's A4 locomotives, since we're on the subject of streamlined trains:

Ok, I suppose it only "endured" until the late 1960s, but has anyone ever seen anything which combines form and function so perfectly?

I'm an OVS Bulleid man, myself...

(there will now be a long and bloody trainspotter war, forcing a referral to room 101...)

 

[theclaud]

(there will now be a long and bloody trainspotter war, forcing a referral to room 101...)

Never mind -it's a bit classier than my seating-plan-off with Jonesy...

 

[Aperitif]

One is going to be pretty reserved while the other lets off a load of steam I would have thought...

 

[jonesy]

Careful, Jonesy - the smug-o-meter is off the scale... But now that you mention getting on the train, WTF is it with the announcements? First of all I would like to welcome customers who might have joined the service at Port Talbot Parkway? FFS. And we all know what buffets sell. It won't be long before the announcements are so long that we'll be at the next station before they end. Sorry - station stop. I think this rant might have taken me off topic...

Then there's the safety announcement with 'important information' that is 'also available in Braile uppon request from the guard', ffs... it annoys me every day. A fine example of the worst kind of arse-covering application of H&S, no discernable benefit, time wasted, passegers learn to switch off from long, tedious repetitive announcements and so won't be listening the one time there is something important to say.

 

[theclaud]

One is going to be pretty reserved while the other lets off a load of steam I would have thought...

 

[rich p]

You two must be rivetting company over dinner

 

[threebikesmcginty]

learn to switch off from long, tedious repetitive announcements and so won't be listening the one time there is something important to say.

Sorry, did you say something?!...

 

[Aperitif]

Good point jonesy!

Something well designed and enduring.

 

[theclaud]

Then there's the safety announcement with 'important information' that is 'also available in Braile uppon request from the guard', ffs... it annoys me every day. A fine example of the worst kind of arse-covering application of H&S, no discernable benefit, time wasted, passegers learn to switch off from long, tedious repetitive announcements and so won't be listening the one time there is something important to say.

Christ yes. There was a great Scenes You Seldom See in the Eye, with someone saying to his companion, "'scuse me - I'm just going to take a moment to read the information on the safety card adjacent to my seat."

 

[mr Mag00]

the stove top coffe machines cannot be bothered to google it but you know the ones i mean !

 

[theclaud]

You two must be rivetting company over dinner

I was thinking of selling tickets. We haven't even started on upholstery yet.

 

[theclaud]

the stove top coffe machines cannot be bothered to google it but you know the ones i mean !

Oh yes. Definitely.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Good point jonesy!

Something well designed and enduring.

I bought a bottle of wine the other day and noticed it had braile on the label. I thought at the time that could be handy later...well if I could read braile that is!