From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Equipment failures

April 29, 2009

The week didn’t start well. I was at the station in time for the 09h02, as usual, only to find it delayed by 17 minutes. The 19. Then 22, 24… equipment failure, apparently, somewhere around Ipswich which, as it’s an intercity from Norwich, it has to pass through. So I took the 09h09 and got [...]

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A lucky escape

April 24, 2009

Delays of five hours narrowly avoided this time around, but earlier in the week I wasn’t quite so lucky.

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Kit failure at Bethnal Green

April 20, 2009

What a crappy night on the trains. I got to Liverpool Street at 18h40 after a go-slow on the tube and the 48 still didn’t have a platform. Neither was there any idea of when it would arrive – as every minute ticked by, the estimate slid another minute into the future.

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A week of contrasts

April 9, 2009

A week of contrasts, as I start on an inefficient commuter run into London, and finish with an excellent East Coast train, both run by the same company.

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