(No) cable on the line…
On the train down to London this weekend, we were joined by the passengers from several other trains making it, to use Victoria Wood’s wonderful phrase, “nose to nipple” in the carriage.
Fortunately I was already seated, but I did a double take when the guard announced the reason for the overcrowding.
Not, as i’d assumed a broken down train. Instead, trains between York and Doncaster were not running due to a “Cable Theft“, which as excuses go, is a pretty good one.
Much as we may, pardon the pun, rail against the high prices of train tickets in the UK, which are now verging on the obscene. But, you have to have some sympathy from the operators when even the parts of the network they can keep in good repair then get stolen like the lead from church rooftops.
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