Wednesday 12 November 2008

Slow train

There are a series of TV adverts running at the moment about the foolishness of jumping crossing gates across rail lines. This driver. I would suggest, hasn't been paying attention. This is the aftermath of his van being hit by a train on the Salisbury to Bath line this morning. You can read the full story here.

How do I know this? Well I was on a train on this line this morning. Not the one that hit the car but the one going the other way that stopped in the middle of nowhere for 10/15 minutes. The one that then had to go back to Bradford-on Avon (as unsurprisingly the line was blocked) so that we could get off and stand in the cold for 50 minutes, get on a coach , be driven into Bath and then get another train to Bristol and then arrive two hours late for a meeting!!!!

All because some "red van man" didn't think that he would come second against a train!

Genius!
at

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I see stuff like this and just think that the red van driver wanted to make sure there was more air for the rest of us!

13 November 2008 at 19:02

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Beautiful country

 David Batt (no relation to Mike!) is better known as the artist David Sylvian. I use that description deliberately as besides being a singe...

  • Parked Car
      Tina Dico is a singer songwriter, who first came to my attention as a vocalist on a couple of Zero 7 tracks and then when she released her...
  • Knights of the round table (Camelot Song)
    As a teenager in the 70's Monty Python was part of my formative years and the ability to be able to recite various sketches verbatim w...
  • Take that to the bank
    The global banking crisis is effecting everybody it appears and I have tried twice to write a blog that expresses my feelings..but nothing I...