thetrainline.com

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From: Hakim Cassimally
Subject: thetrainline.com
Date: 13:09 on 14 Dec 2004
Just usable enough that I use it instead of queueing up at the station
or speaking to robot people on the booking line (hate hate hate), but
so hateful that I want to poke my eyes out afterwards.

Hateful overuse of POST fields that make it annoying to tab Back
to previous pages (except Opera which appears to be the only
browser that is sane and caches them...)

(Though, of course, the site doesn't work on Opera due to a crappy
Javascript bug that tries to insist you have typed a comma in the wrong
place.  Technical support suggest "upgrading" to IE.)  *

The options for seating direction are "Front", "Back", and "Airline".
None of which are directions.  Front might mean "in direction of
travel", Back might mean "away from direction of travel, so you get
travel-sick, because obviously you want that", and I'm fucked if
I know what Airline means.  The help link does not explain.

There is no way to suggest you'd like to be on the Quiet coach
or not.  If you wanted to spend your journey shouting down a
mobile phone, are a small child, or snore loudly, you might prefer
not to have the rest of the coach hating you, and vice versa.

The pages allowing you to select price tempt you to check prices
of singles "From £11"... but when you do, the cheap single they've
mentioned is invariably sold out, and the cheapest one is 5-10 times
more expensive.  Of course I like wasting time checking the prices
myself, and it would probably be really really hard for the braindead
arsewipe of an application to save me the fun.

I've tried to escape to virgintrains.com, but of course that is just a
skin on exactly the same shitty engine with exactly the same bugs.

Hate,
osfameron

* It might be fair to point out that the site appears to work with
Opera 7.  Though if you want fairness, this is the wrong forum.

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