You’re a fairly responsible and sensible person. You occasionally use the trains as alternative transport and like to plan ahead.
The problem is you aren’t on the Internet - and not everyone is.
So, at some stage you’ve gone down to the Railway Station and picked up the Train Operating Companies most up to date timetable […]

Studying genealogy, it was not that long ago that some people were entered in a Census as ‘imbosil’ and riding my Moped 14 miles from Ashford to Canterbury almost every day, I think some could be, and should be, classed as just that again.
I can guarantee that on a weekday, any car which overtakes me […]

I know I harp on about the railways at present. I guess it’s those years of saying the right thing and following the party line etc.
On Wednesday I awoke at 0600 to a very cold morning and made made a decision that going to Canterbury (14 miles) on the Moped was perhaps a tad dangerous. […]

Having worked on the railway and travelled on the trains every day along with now making trips to here there and everywhere, I find myself having to pass the time away.
I’ve never been a one for reading on a train, neither can I sleep usually and I certainly wouldn’t find a Laptop or MP3 player […]

‘On-Train announcements’ is another way of saying ‘PA Announcements’. Having worked as a manager on the railway for a few years I know how the terminology changed after privatisation ie Guards became Conductors, Buffet services became On-Board Services, passengers became customers and I became crazy !!
It seems that some things have gone from one extreme […]

I was spending Boxing Day with my daughter and her family in Southampton. I thought a couple of weeks before that I ought to check the trains are all OK for that day, so I dutifully went to Ashford International and asked “Is there a service on Boxing Day?” - “yes, but a reduced service, […]