Not a good day for trains. After this mornings delays, more of the same tonight. Line congestion, it said at Chelmsford, but that’s such a stupid cover-all excuse that it’s useless. Trains theoretically run to a timetable, so you don’t spontaneously get line congestion one day when you didn’t have it the day before. Something must have caused it.
What that ‘something’ was, though, I don’t know. A very disgruntled driver came over the speakers somewhere near Ilford to say that he had been calling the signal operator, but that the signal person had never replied. When he did, he said, he would get straight back on and let us know what was up.
He didn’t, so I can only assume he never found out.
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