A Thousand Miles

I'm sure my luck is going to run out sooner or later. I realise that over the past three weekends I have travelled over a thousand miles by train, much of it by Virgin Trains, and not suffered any serious delay. And twice I've made the connection between the local train from Manchester into the Preston-London at Crewe despite it being too tight to be advertised as a connection. And coming back from Warley I managed to get a seat on a Voyager on a Sunday night!

Just about the worst problem has been outside Notwork Rail's territory; the tube between Euston and Paddington. That bit seems to go pear-shaped every time I use it. What's gone wrong with London Underground?

A bit of silliness at Stockport today, though. A minute before the train to Alderley Edge was due on Platform 1, the tannoy announced a platform alteration and that the train to Alderley Edge was delayed due to 'the late arrival of the inbound service'. As the announcer spoke, a class 323 with the words 'Alderley Edge' on the front rolled into platform one, dead on time. After a few moments of confusion, the conductor confirmed that this was indeed the Alderley Edge train, and the station announcement was total bollocks.