w.atching the w.orld unw.ind

At least today we were delivered to our chosen destination. Yesterday morning, as we pulled out of East Croydon, our train driver announced that we weren’t going to London Bridge as planned, but Victoria. (Overrunning engineering works – clearly not foreseeable until we were within sight of them?). And obviously, we weren’t the only rerouted ‘service’ as hordes of people were decanted into a Monday morning terminus which would have been heaving without our company.

And we were shuttled into the warmth of the Underground in batches, standing awaiting our turn and freezing our nadgers off (well, the blokes were, anyway).

So this morning, the platform announcement that there could be delays due to the weather were greeted with disbelieving groans. Don’t these people watch the news? The meteorologists have been predicting snowfall for a week now and icy tracks could cause speed restrictions?

What a way to run a railway?