Plod Failure

Nottingham was a good show, but the journey home wasn't quite as good.

PT Plod (That's the British Transport Police) decided to hold the 18:39 departure to Liverpool for 15 minutes so they could 'get rid' of a large number of drunken football fans who's been chucked out of a nearby pub, and then failed to provide any visible police presence on the train itself. (Although I think some police may have boarded at the first stop and removed some people from the train). The rest of the passengers suffered a journey filled with obscene racist chanting and a thoroughly aggressive and frightening atmosphere until most of the morons got off a Chesterfield. There was evidence of vandalism on train too.

I'm not a fan of the BT Police, who perhaps should just be merged into the local police forces. They got too big for their size 15 boots immediately after privatisation, detaining innocent passengers for many hours for pointless questioning after minor derailments, and their playing 'pass the parcel' with a bunch of aggressive drunks, putting the rest of the travelling public at risk in the process, is not a good advert for the force.

If that wasn't enough, we were then stuck at Chesterfield for another 35 minutes because of a broken down freight train in front of us. And the final insult was that my connecting train from Stockport to Cheadle Hulme was replaced by a bus because of engineering work between Cheadle Hulme and Crewe.