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My new favourite “Reason”: Sheep on the railway (1067)

• ThePadawan 4y ago
  I'm fascinated that these (ostensibly internal) reasons are actually broadcast. Coming from Germany, I'm used to the reason for a train delay being announced as one of - "people near the tracks" - "waiting for another delayed train" or - "operational issues", which ...yeah that includes everything else It's kind of charming that delayed Scottish people get to bond over yesterday's theft of overhead line electrification equipment.
  • 3dbrows 4y ago
    We also have a lot of infuriatingly tautological explanations, for example: “We apologise that this train has only 2 carriages today. This is because the additional carriages failed to enter service.” Well, yes.
• robocat 4y ago
  All the reasons: https://scotrail.datasette.io/scotrail?sql=select+*+from+announcements+where+category+%3D+%22Reason%22+order+by+file https://scotrail.datasette.io/scotrail?sql=select+*+from+ann... Playing many of them simultaneously is soothing.