Musings from the Merse
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Well they have broadband in Little Giddings! Even more remote than Hutton and even smaller-45 souls. Great Gidings is huge-bigger than Paxton if you can imagine such a metropolis in rural Cambridgeshire. This used to be Huntingdonshire but got swallowed up-rather like East Lothian absorbingBerwickshire. God forbid. Please.
GNER had problems. Indeed every train passing South ofDoncaster had severe problems on Friday. 'Overhead cables' apparently. No power on track, never mind the wrong kind. It could have been worse. But bad enough.Two hours stationary at two different stations and reassuring messages promising news. And less reassuring remarks about 'severe disruption' 'eighty trains stuck' Passengers with onward connections please let us know. Flight details taken down and promises of contacts with airlines. One young Chinese girl with a 10pm flight to Hong Kong was hard to help as she did not know her flight number, was to collect her ticket from the airport.Which one? Was not sure . Could be Heathrow or possibly Gatwick. And so the long day dragged on
Very hot and as our train was carrying people from three abandoned ones it was a tad crowded. No way of reaching the restaurant car apart from causing gbh en route.
We return this evening. It couldn't happen again!
Could it?
GNER had problems. Indeed every train passing South ofDoncaster had severe problems on Friday. 'Overhead cables' apparently. No power on track, never mind the wrong kind. It could have been worse. But bad enough.Two hours stationary at two different stations and reassuring messages promising news. And less reassuring remarks about 'severe disruption' 'eighty trains stuck' Passengers with onward connections please let us know. Flight details taken down and promises of contacts with airlines. One young Chinese girl with a 10pm flight to Hong Kong was hard to help as she did not know her flight number, was to collect her ticket from the airport.Which one? Was not sure . Could be Heathrow or possibly Gatwick. And so the long day dragged on
Very hot and as our train was carrying people from three abandoned ones it was a tad crowded. No way of reaching the restaurant car apart from causing gbh en route.
We return this evening. It couldn't happen again!
Could it?
Comments:
It didn't. Praise the pigs. Dead on time until 3 miles south of Berwick when it stopped suddenly. We feared the worst. But it was only a line side fault. Unexplained. Sorted by driver on his mobile. Ten minutes later we moved. No further explanation. Again.
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