Delays, ruined plans - and having to stand for hours at a time - are Brits’ top ‘rail fails’ according to research.
A poll of 2,000 adults discovered the top 15 train peeves include rail replacement bus services, loud music or videos being played and unclear announcements over the tannoy.
Similarly, seats being taken up with luggage or being used as a footrest are familiar annoyances.
While the top three most irritating rail peeves are costly tickets (35 per cent), delays (34 per cent) and overcrowding (24 per cent).
In a comedy skit, Comedian Joe Thomas has teamed up with temporary car insurance provider Tempcover to deliver a humorous take on the UK’s rail services ahead of the Easter weekend travel.
The light-hearted video brings to life some of the shared irks of travellers, including having to take the replacement bus and risking “having to pay 5 times the price of a ticket from Paris to Berlin.”
A poll of 2,000 adults discovered the top 15 train peeves include rail replacement bus services, loud music or videos being played and unclear announcements over the tannoy.
Similarly, seats being taken up with luggage or being used as a footrest are familiar annoyances.
While the top three most irritating rail peeves are costly tickets (35 per cent), delays (34 per cent) and overcrowding (24 per cent).
In a comedy skit, Comedian Joe Thomas has teamed up with temporary car insurance provider Tempcover to deliver a humorous take on the UK’s rail services ahead of the Easter weekend travel.
The light-hearted video brings to life some of the shared irks of travellers, including having to take the replacement bus and risking “having to pay 5 times the price of a ticket from Paris to Berlin.”
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00:01Oh no! Oh no! No, no, no, no!
00:09Hi, I just missed the train.
00:12The next is...
00:15The rail replacement bus service.
00:19I'm sorry, I can't tour right now.
00:22Well, since you asked, basically whilst everyone else is larking about having the time of their four-day weekender lives,
00:28I'll be sat on a bus next to a man who, I'll bet my life, about 20 minutes in, will whip out an egg sandwich.
00:34Not a euphemism.
00:37Oh, come on!
00:40Woohoo! We're on the way! See you in a bit, no train delays.
00:47How many times have we been here? It's the Easter holidays, everyone's on the move, visiting friends and family all up and down the country,
00:52so obviously that's the perfect weekend to rip up the tracks. It's not like anyone wants to go anywhere.
00:57Look, it's not about the bus. I like buses. But if I buy a bus ticket from a bus company, it's significantly cheaper than if I buy a train ticket from a train company.
01:06So, if I'm now doing part of the journey by bus, why isn't the overall ticket price cheaper?
01:11Do you know?
01:12What?
01:13No one knows.
01:14They say it's a replacement, but it's not a replacement, is it? Because it's a different thing.
01:17If I had a heart transplant and they went, oh, we've finished, we've replaced it with a kidney, is that alright? It's a replacement.
01:22I'd say, not really.
01:23If I went into a pub and asked for a pint of beer and they went, there you go, mate, it's a pint of water, is that alright?
01:28It's in the same glass, it's a replacement. I'd say, not really.
01:31At least the original tickets are nice and cheap. I can get all the way from London to Manchester, but only five times the price of a ticket from Paris to Berlin.
01:45What?
01:46And it's literally an app?
01:49Well, why did no one tell me that?
01:52Right, I'm going back home because apparently these days you can borrow a mate's car and sort out temporary car insurance on your phone in two minutes.
02:05Are you joking?
02:06Absolutely not.
02:07Not with the eggs.
02:09Fear not, my friends, with temp cover you can avoid the engineering works and listen to Taylor Swift out loud and in peace.
02:18Yeah, I'm a Swifty and luggage.
02:24That was close.
02:26Don't know why I didn't think of temp cover.
02:27It's on my suitcase.