Yesterday I visited Bletchley Park, travelling by train and changing at Bedford.
On the return journey there was a discouraging announcement that we had been relegated to the slow line to avoid another train that had broken down.
As we approached Wellingborough there was an announcement that some passengers must have found even more alarming. We were to use the short platform at Wellingborough, presumably because we were still on the slow line, so there would be room for only the front of the train. Passengers in several of the rear coaches would therefore not be allowed to alight and, those whose destination was Wellingborough were bidden to travel on to Kettering, alight there and wait for a train to take them back to Wellingborough.
If only trains still had doors passengers could open at will, those inconvenienced could just have jumped down onto the track and walked to the platform.
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I'm very far from convinced that our rail service is improving, but the fares are certainly rocketing up.
Were you badly delayed?
The solution of moving the train so that the rear passengers could alight when all the front coaches had been vacated is far too obvious to be possible.
'If it wasn't for the passengers, Minister, running a railway service would be simplicity itself'.
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