I really do feel train travel is quite useful and convenient and, when not burdened by suitcase, travel rugs and "a little something to eat on the train" very successful! *
A necessary journey today proved rather more irritating than useful and, of course, platform changes, cancellations and alterations are all to be expected from a busy and over-stretched rail network, but.....
The main-line station rail station concerned is presently, rather like an on-going building-site, with new tracks and services being established which no doubt will prove to be of an excellent standard, once completed. I wonder when that will be? Any renovations or improvements always seem to take much longer than anticipated or realised, of course, and the ensuing frustrations must cause difficulties.
I've not travelled by train for sometime now, going by car instead to visit family and friends and, with your car as your home-base extension, it's a simple matter to take all the hand luggage you desire, without the bother of having to carry it by hand. That's the rub - too much hand luggage - the usual clutter and stuff!
The irritations which really bothered were the searches to find loos and the unwelcome and very last- minute platform changes plus the need to be very nimble-footed, charging up and down long escalators.
The last such change actually resulted in a missed train and, at the end of a long day, the nuisance of a slow and awkward lift onto the platform - just in time to growl at the conductor as his train drew away in front of me, was not amusing!
I was quite unable to do my paperwork, as promised, because of a lack of table space and, instead, had to read our latest book club read, Dostoevsky's The Idiot, a very dense and rambling novel which must, somehow, contain a good read, if only it could be located?
Happy reading folks!
Daisy
* "a little something to eat on the train" comes from a poem within a charming book on how to behave and good manners, which is buried in some deep box within our second bedroom, which is yet to be found. I will give both title and author very soon, but I think it was a Debrett's publication. My apologies for this present omission
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