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Imagine knocking off for the day, rolling into your favourite post-work boozer, having pints with your mates for a couple of hours and then it drops you home as you finish. Talk about efficiency!

This could totally help ease the housing crisis in London if spun the right way. I’m sure of it!

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The problem is that the Brits are notoriously bad a moderation with alcohol (I am British) which leads to lots of social problems both on the train itself and at the stations you alight late at night.

Alcohol is already a problem on most night-time train services and if anything, the operators are more likely to ban it than encourage it (I think some already ban drunk people getting on the train in the first place)

Alcohol is completely banned on the Scottish rail network:

https://www.scotrail.co.uk/about-scotrail/our-rules-travel/a...

It's banned on all Transport for London services as well, courtesy of one mayor B. Johnson

You can drink and get away with it, the ban kind of serves as a deterrent for bad behaviour and gives guards/police an easy way to get rid of people being drunk pricks (which is not technically illegal)

I travelled recently on a smallish Scotrail train to Edinburgh on a Friday evening. On the table next to me were a couple in their 50s who brought out a red-white checkered table cloth and crystal wine glasses, like a posh picnic. With inimitable style they mixed lemon Fanta with Gordons Gin in their crystal glasses, but wisely kept the Gordons in their bag to avoid too much provocation. They behaved well, just their faces started to colour-match their table cloth by the time they got to Edinburgh. The conductor did not mind. If anything, I think he was a bit jealous.

(This train terminated in Edinburgh and was going no-where the English border)

Only on ScotRail trains, which largely operate with Scotland. However the ban doesn't extend to services that operate across the border. Yet another minor pleasure ruined by an overbearing Scottish government driven by a handful of idiots.

You just described Germany.

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