My Train Journey This Morning

[shaunbhoy]

[gricerboy]

Wow, where is everyone today? Not only did I get a double seat all to myself for the whole journey, I also got all 4 seats and a table to myself

[threaded]

Wow, where is everyone today? Not only did I get a double seat all to myself for the whole journey, I also got all 4 seats and a table to myself

Same here on the cycle paths. I'm like where's all the traffic? There's no decent totty to draught!

[lilelvis2000]

It always amazes me how people shamelessly push into get onto the train first in order to get a seat. I've pretty much got it down to a T now - I know exactly where to stand on the platform so that the carriage door comes to a stop more or less in front of me. Then people from further up the platform begin to converge and there are always some weasely types who push in from the side. Normally they are rather pusilanimous looking men in hi vis coats with their bike helmets still on but the most shameless pushers in are young attractive women. Presumably because they think they can get away with it. Well, here's news for you - try that on me and you'll get a kick in the shins just as hard as I give to all those quiet carriage, spandex wearing, holier than thou eco freaks when they do it. Be warned.

Is that writen on the spandex T-shirt you wear? Thank goodness I don't take the train.

Soon I won't even have to take the car. I'm getting a office at the end of my street!
Though will miss the 22Meg broadband..

[gricerboy]

Well, I'm not going to talk about this morning's train journey today; not much to report really, but I'd like to tell you about the train journey I took on Saturday. On Saturday I went Bashing for the first timne this year. Bashing is the practice of going on organised train journeys in which you are hauled by your favourite type of locomotive. It's a real hoot I can tell you - most of us spend the journey flailing - that's where you hang out of the old style carriage windows shouting obscenities at people on station platforms as the train goes through.
In this case, the loco was a western region class 52 Western diesel hydraulic locomotive. My Lordz! Dreadful! I can tell you that as we stood on the platform at Severn Beach the sense of excitement was almost palpable as we heard the distant rumble of those twin Maybach engines announcing that our journey was about to begin.

[gricerboy]

4 carriages on the train this morning.

Luxury. Sheer luxury.

It was reasonably clean too.

Was it a multiple unit?

[gricerboy]

Are you familiar with the Cardiff Bay line? There's an old class 21 bubble car DMU operating from Cardiff Queen Street if you ever go up that way-

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[gricerboy]

My lordz! Train pulls in at WSM this morning and there is a WHOLE empty carriage. Great methinks, bound to get the double seat to Swindon all to myself today. I get on and I notice that every seat has a reservation from BTM to London. Oh well, I thought - perhaps they won's show - so I sat down in one. I was wrong - the resevation was made for a troop of boy scouts (and some girl ones too). I was promptly evicetd and spent the rest of the journey stood up 'cos the rest of the train was full by then!

[shaunbhoy]

My lordz! Train pulls in at WSM this morning and there is a WHOLE empty carriage. Great methinks, bound to get the double seat to Swindon all to myself today. I get on and I notice that every seat has a reservation from BTM to London. Oh well, I thought - perhaps they won's show - so I sat down in one. I was wrong - the resevation was made for a troop of boy scouts (and some girl ones too). I was promptly evicetd and spent the rest of the journey stood up 'cos the rest of the train was full by then!

Truly fascinating............as always!

[Churchill]

My lordz! Train pulls in at WSM this morning and there is a WHOLE empty carriage. Great methinks, bound to get the double seat to Swindon all to myself today. I get on and I notice that every seat has a reservation from BTM to London. Oh well, I thought - perhaps they won's show - so I sat down in one. I was wrong - the resevation was made for a troop of boy scouts (and some girl ones too). I was promptly evicted and spent the rest of the journey sweating like a paedo!

FTFY.