Have I mentioned my feelings for FirstGreatWestern before? Once or twice maybe ( Read more... )

There must be something about the evening conductors. They're much less chirpy than their morning colleagues, some of whom need telling to shut up when you're trying to have a kip before work. Wednesday was bad enough. I was sat in my customer place (on the floor by a door) when the conductor starts his usual blather about stations, quiet zones, ( Read more... )

or: Why I hate First Great Western ( Read more... )

Isn't public transport great? Isn't it good the way that they tell you when the line is closed as has been closed for the last two hours instead of letting people mill around the station getting in each others' way? Aren't commuters nice and helpful moving along the carriage and letting people onto the trains once they are running and not leaving ( Read more... )

Lastworstwestern made me late for work for the third time this week. This means they now owe me two hours of my life back this week ( Read more... )

:) The new cable has allowed me to restore my ipod and so far it seems to be working fine again (rah).

:( Network Rail conspired to double my journey time to work today with signalling problems. Thankfully I was going to have some time to kill after work today anyway, and I got to see a guy with the full 3-piece suit, bowler hat and brolly on the

Got the 18:03 from Paddington yesterday. It left about 5 minutes late, but that was no big problem. It then proceeded 5 minutes down the track and stopped. For 45 minutes. I couldn't hear the train manager but according to other passengers excuses ranging from signal failure to broken wheels were used. We then returned to Paddington, arriving back ( Read more... )

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