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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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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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