After a week of ice and sub-sero temperatures, the snow is starting to melt, not that you’d know it from the way my bike was skidding around on the ride to the station this morning.
Sadly, though, the trains were still struggling. At least on National Express East Anglia. We arrived in good time for the 07h49 to find it had switched platforms. Fine – we can cope with that – except that platform one, where it was due to arrive, was still waiting for the 43. It came and it went, but there were so many people we couldn’t get on. Ditto the 49 when it turned up. Ditto the 53, which had been reduced from 12 to eight coaches.
We eventually got on the 57, and to be fair it was a good run in, but as with past years 2010 hasn’t had a good start for commuters across the country. The heavy snowfall has happened the smooth running of the trains and left plenty of passengers either crammed onto overcrowded services or waiting on frozen platforms.
That’s why we, like many others, spend three days last week working from home.
