Tag: trains
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Talking to people on trains
Before I got a smart phone, I used to wander around talking to people all the time. I began to fall out of this habit during my mid 20s and getting my first iPhone was the nail in the coffin. Now I’m more likely to go out of my way to avoid talking to people […]
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the appalling state of @crosscountryuk trains
Half the toilets were out of order as per usual. Once I squeezed myself through an astonishingly overcrowded train, this was the state of the other toilet. The floor was pretty awful but thought it was nicer not to photograph it:
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Everything that’s wrong with the UK train network in one image
It shouldn’t be this confusing (or expensive) to make a short journey within the Midlands.
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Did you know that “first class tickets are required for first class travel”?
As has so often happened in the last year of my life, I found myself on an unpleasantly crowded train home this evening after a long day in London. I could not fail to be aware of the impending crowds as I began to board the train – the hordes of people who had ran […]
Mark Carrigan 