For me and perhaps many members here - yes, absolutely they tell us what we already know.  And getting into the quiz the questions felt vey simplified - "none of the above" would be a good answer to some of the qualifying questions, and "it depended on where I was, whom I was with ...".

The run from Shrewsbury to Swansea in midFerbuary was spent - or supposed to be spend - chatting with Lisa and admiring the scenery.  But I also ended up chatting with friendly staff (after duty had finished) about the line and its operation, and rushing together a proposal to repaint the station approach for foot passengers to Melksham Station because we had been invited to get in before a deadline that was looming.

A typical run from London to Swindon / Chippenham / Westbury, travelling without companion, will be anticipated to be almost pure productivity - but then things can change; if I meet someone I know, or recognised me (it has happened) ... or if someone if acting lost / looking for help / ends up chatting, the journey can get partially or fully lost into something completely different.  Care to be / and is taken to ensure modern sensitivities at these times

But - come on, Coffee Shop contributors, the adverts aren't aimed at use hardened travellers who dominate the posting here.  They are aimed to point out to the private car driver just what could be done that can't while driving.. I used to drive 30,000 miles a year - living in Easterton - between Patney and Chirton and Lavington, both of them closed and in any case miles from where we were even though the trains passed close, and I spent  massive time in the driving seat - thinking (and at stops scribbling notes) , and more unmoving time getting rest and refreshment at stops.   In those days, computers were much larger and I usually had to carry anything from 3 or 4 up to a dozen with me, so the train would have been impractical - but the time spent when headed from Wiltshire to ... Glasgow, or Cambridge, or Dublin was not the most productive.   I will admit to being out of touch with Eddy Grundy's latest schemes these days.


The National rail quiz, with the nearest appropriate answers, tell ms:


It goes on to suggest five things I could do to be "even more effective".  One I do, the other four I do a variant, tuned for my personal use beyond the generalises quiz, and as far as I'm concerned that's fine - we are all different and there's no obligation on this.

 
Thanks, RailCornwall. 

I've shortened that link to a briefer version, here.

 
Here's a selection ....

https://www.google.com/search?q=on+the+train+you+can&oq=on+the+train&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgBEAAYgAQyCQgAEEUYORiABDIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIGCAUQRRg9MgYIBhBFGD0yBggHEEUYQdIBCDkzMTFqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 
Erm ... do you have a link to that apparently 'offending' item?

 
Does anyone else find these non operating company specific National Adverts condescending at best, irritating also? If they're a precursor of the future it's grim.