Tube / Train stories

Published 31 October 06 07:43 AM

Home alone on a Monday night – this might be the first time that I have been home alone on any night for the past couple of weeks.  So here I am running around the house from upstairs to down below eating the plums from the fruit basket (someone has to eat them).

 

I will try to start these "Week in review" sessions each week; otherwise it will be months before I write another posting!

 

Friday day, overall, was a bad day.  As the day was coming to a close I had to make my way to the tube station to get to Euston station in order to catch the train to Manchester.  With plenty of time I decide to leave the house after 5pm, needing to get to Euston at 6.20pm.  There should have been plenty of time, only, the tube didn't end up arriving as promptly as always, then it made random stops along the way in between stations.  Get off, run to catch a different tube line to get me to Euston, run from the underground to the trains to make it there just after 6.20pm!  Our little group of four persons was unable to find four seats together; actually we were unable to find three empty seats at all!  Luckily for us they decided to open up one of the first class carriages and the train journey felt like 20 minutes instead of 3 hours with the vino degustation and five hundred (card game).

 

… (what happened in Manchester stays in Manchester)

 

The train back from Manchester to London was full also, prompting the train officer to make an announcement before we left the station that “persons unable to find seats should kindly catch the next train”.  If I was to interpret the message by the tone of his voice it would have been along the lines of “get off the train now”.

by corina

Comments

# Marky said on October 31, 2006 11:58 PM:
First class train to Manchester, not bad!

On public transport - the Tube has nothing on CityRail back here in Sydney :).

What would your favourite station in London be, Corina?
# corina said on November 5, 2006 6:57 AM:
Well Marky, that is a tough question right now. Can I be qualified enough to claim one station is better than all the others? The tube station that I will name .. is.. Leicester Square.
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