Honey, we stole the train!
Had to go to Cardiff today. The journey home is a train from Cardiff to Gloucester, then change for Worcester.
Standing on a very cold, windy platform in Cardiff and the sign is telling us that the second train will be the 17:08 to Gloucester. The London train comes in and departs. 17:08 comes ...and passes ... and no train. Then it disappears off the board. No explanation, no announcement ... nothing ...
A few minutes later the third train comes in - and it is terminating. At which point the guard who had turned up for the Gloucester train, and who was just as nonplussed as the rest of us! - said:
"Wot the 'ell, we'll take this one!"
He opens the door and we all pile on. Then one of the platform staff bustles up and offers: "I'm not sure you're on the right train."
"Well," the guard replies. "All these people are going to Gloucester, so that's where we're going!"
And we DID! I giggled most of the way there, too.
We stole the train!!!
I love that train guard!
Standing on a very cold, windy platform in Cardiff and the sign is telling us that the second train will be the 17:08 to Gloucester. The London train comes in and departs. 17:08 comes ...and passes ... and no train. Then it disappears off the board. No explanation, no announcement ... nothing ...
A few minutes later the third train comes in - and it is terminating. At which point the guard who had turned up for the Gloucester train, and who was just as nonplussed as the rest of us! - said:
"Wot the 'ell, we'll take this one!"
He opens the door and we all pile on. Then one of the platform staff bustles up and offers: "I'm not sure you're on the right train."
"Well," the guard replies. "All these people are going to Gloucester, so that's where we're going!"
And we DID! I giggled most of the way there, too.
We stole the train!!!
I love that train guard!