Bye Bye First Capital Connect

Herr Tubthumper said:

This is a chat-room. If you find me boring don't read what I post. It's that simple. There's also a handy facility called ignore, try it. It's so simple even maybe even you can use it? If you prefer to back up one-trick-ponies who talk unsubstantiated rubbish then fine.

For the record, Ernest probably knows that the official government figure (not some 2011 EU passenger survey like the one he posted and which you refer to) for the last year across the UK for punctuality is lower than in Germany. And this is probably the reason he is searching high and low and posting spurious 3 year old articles and not posting current easily accessible figures.

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Ernest said:

Post the links to the figures then

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Herr Tubthumper said:

Are you refusing to put your money where your mouth is?

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jcdenton08 said:

I always thought Ernest WAS just a comedy troll who POSTED nonsense in this STYLE.

Seeing him hold together a cogent argument is completely breaking character.

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Diego Napier said:

So you think dogged persistance without producing any credible evidence is holding together a cogent argument?

On reflection, in his case I suppose it is

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Diego Napier said:

So you think dogged persistance without producing any credible evidence is holding together a cogent argument?

On reflection, in his case I suppose it is

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Ernest said:

I don't need to put any money out because you're the one who has made a statement about German punctuality but you are refusing to put the link up to back up your assertion.

BTW I don't play my dick is bigger than yours in aid of the REMF

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Ernest said:

But where is Herr Tubthumpers credible evidence ? He seems rather less keen to show the simple link to his assertion

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Herr Tubthumper said:

Stop turning this around. I have repeatedly asked you over the years to provide evidence for your assertion that UK rail is as good as Germany. And all you ever tend to do is come back after 20 mins or so or surfing with a link about some random incident on some far-flung part of the DB Rail network. I don't need to demonstrate night follows day. You're the one with ludicrous claims which you cannot back-up.

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Diego Napier said:

So you think dogged persistance without producing any credible evidence is holding together a cogent argument?

On reflection, in his case I suppose it is

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Ernest said:

But you won't put a link up proving your point so pot kettle and black, it's simple put up a link proving the German rail punctually figures are what you say they are and I will bow down to you

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Herr Tubthumper said:

On your knees boy

Current Network Rail overall figure is 88.8% http://www.networkrail.co.uk/about/performance/

Current DB overall figure on a much much larger network is 95.6% http://www1.deutschebahn.com/zb2014-en/igmr/Economic/customer/cs_punctuality.html

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Ernest said:

So you're admitting that the DB punctuality isn't as good as you've been saying and it has improved from a dire 2013 as you know very well, so I think a score draw is the result

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Ernest said:

Regardless of Herr T's rubbish the German trains are just as unreliable as British trains and in places have worse timekeeping

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Herr Tubthumper said:

No. I have claimed German trains are better. I have never quantified how much better. Stop trying to weasel out of this.

You claimed in post 47



I agree there is most likely one German service which is worse than the best UK service but overall I have comprehensively shown this is not the case.

PS in 2013 it was 93.1% http://www1.deutschebahn.com/ar2013...rt_2013/Customer_and_quality/punctuality.html

The UK still has some way to go to get up to this "dire" level would you agree?

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Ernest said:

Apples and oranges , pears and bananas , you still won't admit it so no point carrying on with the conversation

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Herr Tubthumper said:

Stop turning this around. I have repeatedly asked you over the years to provide evidence for your assertion that UK rail is as good as Germany. And all you ever tend to do is come back after 20 mins or so or surfing with a link about some random incident on some far-flung part of the DB Rail network. I don't need to demonstrate night follows day. You're the one with ludicrous claims which you cannot back-up.

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Husty said:

And why wont YOU do the same thing? Are you missing part of your brain?

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Husty said:

And why wont YOU do the same thing? Are you missing part of your brain?

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Ernest said:

He only agrees with the stats he likes , if i posted a 100% reliability stat from the railways here which I could he would say he it doesn't count.

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