Railway Things That Irritate You.

Just a random thread where you can say random things about railways that irritate you. Could be about Railfanning (or trainspotting as most people like me across the pond say), model trains, just anything that irritates you about railways!
I’ll start:
One thing that irritates me is when I have an entire plan to see something rare, and it gets cancelled.

 

Not being allowed to look out on the main line in britain anymore.

 

Travelling in a hermetically sealed tube, can’t open a door droplight anymore.

Constant on train announcements.

Network Rail’s inability to tidy lineside foliage so you can see the scenery from the train.

The obsession with installing welded rail everywhere.

Passengers babbling on their mobile phone even in so called quiet carriages.

GWR inability to keep sufficient 9 car Cucumbers in traffic and substituting with a 5 car.

Ironing board seats, even on long distance trains.

Proper catering cars being replaced by (card only) trolley service.

Gatelines at stations then you still get gripped on the train anyway.

 

Other foamers at events; something about events, shows, and open houses tends to bring the worst out of some many railfans. So many are rude, pushy, loud, obnoxious, and act unsafely. It's not everyone, but the ones that do behave as such tend to ruin it for the rest of us that just want to go out and enjoy some trains.

 

Passengers. They are the most annoying thing in existence.

Whether it's asking for toilets (no, they're not on the platform, otherwise the sign you clearly walked past would've said so), which train is theirs (again, plenty of things around which tell you this).

Or, and this really annoys me, when they're adamant that they can get from A to B despite me, who works at A, knowing all incoming and outgoing trains telling them otherwise. The customer is always right, unless they're after a train to London at 11'o clock at night, four hours after the last train to London has already left.

There's a lot more that irritates me, but at that point I'd be writing several 50,000 word essays. There's a lot you can learn in regards to psychology just by working at a train station.