I am not disabled. Generally I'm in good health. But when I wake up in the morning I can’t walk ( Read more... )

The more alert among you may have noticed that the rain has been rather fluffy and white lately. And given that this is the south of England this has naturally caused all sorts of chaos.

Much of the line now looks like this. The rails are dry, the current supply is pretty steady and we don't really have any problems. It wasn't always this way.


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Ah Autumn. What a wonderful season. Unless you're a traindriver. Or a passenger. Or a trains manager or Signaller. Or in any way associated with or reliant on the railways. Then it's sheer hell ( Read more... )

I was asked recently what it is like to be a traindriver. Not what it's like when I'm there doing my job but what is it like when I'm a passenger on a train. I've spent some time thinking that over because it taps into the idea of how this job has changed my general perspective on life. And I'll start with my apologies as I'm not going to answer ( Read more... )

I've been on holiday recently. I've been driving for two days now and both have been somewhat chaotic in one way or another. Signal failures, unexpectedly high passenger numbers, late running, odd instructions, lost trains, trains doing the timetable in reverse and panicky managers who think they might have lost a couple of drivers somewhere have ( Read more... )

That guy clearly knows something!

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I don't mean to be flippant but I really can't think of anything to say which hasn't already been covered today. Stations are being closed all over to stop gangs of kids using public transport to get anywhere. Parts of London are in flames with uncontrolled rioting. All to no purpose. This is not about Mark

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I had hoped never to write this entry. I've pondered it many times and always concluded that it's too complex a subject to deal with. In my mind it starts out fairly simple and I can work out how to explain things but then I realise I need to add in a bit more detail and a bit more and a bit more and after a while there's too much to deal with. ( Read more... )

I've invested a lot of time and energy into this subject elsewhere so I'm not going to say anything other than to recommend that you have a listen to this.

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After what has been an abysmally long gap in posts I've come back to discuss something very dear to my heart. Driving ( Read more... )