Perhaps this one: https://feddit.uk/post/8386429
Oh that’s a beauty
Not heard the phrase “spark him oot” since school
I once completed a long train journey where I tried very hard to buy a ticket and wasn’t able to: website down, ticket office closed, ticket machine out of order, conductor’s machine broken etc etc. I finally got the ticket from the machine outside my destination station. Before I get criticised for travelling anyway: this was back before apps and contactless, when it was more acceptable to buy your ticket on the train, before they started getting anal about it. The train itself was on time.
I don’t think anyone would criticise you for traveling anyway, if you’ve already tried to pay three different ways then I don’t think they wanted your money!
I once got trapped on a train that took 3.5 hours to do a half hour journey. When we pulled up at the station there was a general feeling of euphoria
The guy who planned Swindon’s magic roundabouts doesn’t drive. He wasn’t even from Swindon! True story. A cab driver told me once.
Supposedly it’s much safer than a normal roundabout, presumably because everyone’s so freaked out by it they approach it with extreme caution and don’t move quickly enough to cause a crash
Hemel Hempstead also has this
Trying to get home from London to Birmingham when it was snowing and on the old virgin train mainline. This was before we could easily lookup National Rail on our phones.
I guess I expected it to be long but god it was looong. Took over 3 hours to get to Coventry. Unfortunately, the speaker was not working in our carriage (didn’t realise at the time) so we missed the announcement that the train was skipping past Birmingham so you should get off here. Could see lots of people getting off the other carriages so you could tell something was up but by the time at realised the train left.
Could see we were going a different way as I had never heard of the stations we went past. Ended up in Stafford. I knew it was outside of Birmingham but couldn’t remember which direction. Still hadn’t figured out the speaker wasnt working and was like, surely it’s just another route to Birmingham. Luckily someone on the carriage realised we were North of Birmingham and asked the guard what was happening. He told us the story so most of our carriage then got off.
So now we were in Stafford trying to figure out the way to Birmingham. Of course, the trains were delayed that way too.
It ended up taking 8 hours to get from London to Birmingham. I think 2 hours of that was due to the broken speaker on our carriage.
These posts aren’t showing up right on Voyager - the title is “(content in post body)” and there is then no post body. I think you’re the only poster I’ve seen this with :S
