Musings from the Merse
Thursday, March 13, 2008
National Sloth East Coast
Mistake to speak too ill of National Express, that well known Oxymoron. Their revenge is to take advantage of broken over head power cables* in southron parts to more or less cancel all their services north of Doncaster today. 'We advise you to delay your journey until Friday' is their wise advice. I have three teaching sessions today, Thursday, in Embra so the advice may be wise but not too helpful. I hope that Virgin Cross Country can come to my aid-going north may be possible but as their last train south via Berwick is 1705 and my last tutorial ends at 1800....
One can't help feeling that GNER would have tried a bit harder.
* Do Diesels need overhead power??
Mistake to speak too ill of National Express, that well known Oxymoron. Their revenge is to take advantage of broken over head power cables* in southron parts to more or less cancel all their services north of Doncaster today. 'We advise you to delay your journey until Friday' is their wise advice. I have three teaching sessions today, Thursday, in Embra so the advice may be wise but not too helpful. I hope that Virgin Cross Country can come to my aid-going north may be possible but as their last train south via Berwick is 1705 and my last tutorial ends at 1800....
One can't help feeling that GNER would have tried a bit harder.
* Do Diesels need overhead power??
Labels: GNER, National Express
Comments:
Inevitably, after making elaborate travel arrangements not involving National Depress the trains started running normally after a couple of cancellations just for fun. It must have been a dull day at the Oxymoron HQ-anything for a laff and inconvenience much regretted
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