Me and my daughter went from Norwich to London Liverpool Street on Monday. Got to Kelveden in Essex and the train stopped. An announcement was made that the train in front of us had hit someone on the line and all trains on the line had been suspended until the emergency services had done what they had to. After an hour and 10 minutes, we were able to continue our journey. 10 minutes later, the train stops again at Shenfield and announced it was terminating and we would have to change trains to continue on to Liverpool Street. The first train came along 5 minutes later, but the carriages were already like sardines in a tin and we would never have squeezed in as the doors could hardly shut, so we waited for the next one. 20 minutes later that arrived and we got on, although it was standing room only. Didn't matter too much, though, as it was only 20 minutes or so to our destination. My daughter had an appointment in central London (just off Regent Street). By the time we were at Liverpool Street, we were running about 1 3/4 hours late so, in turn, she was a bit late for her appointment. Nothing we could have done though and it wasn't the fault of the railway. How people commute everyday, I will never know. Maybe we just caught the service on a bad day and if we didn't have to be somewhere at a certain time it wouldnt have been so bad. Turns out it was a mobility scooter stuck on the line and was hit by the train and the driver was thrown from his scooter. Not badly hurt tho which is good and could have been a whole lot worse.
I've been on similar. I went to West Brom vs Pompey in the cup semi's a few years back. It had already been a busy, hot summer day and I got on the train to go back. I was standing up for around 3 hours straight in the heat after a painful loss
Yeah you're right, sorry i didn't realise the way i worded it. But you never know what they think, even just as the train is about to hit, his last image may be his family. It's more 'maybes' than knowing for sure what they are thinking.
I commuted to London for 4 years, only 20 mins from Stevenage to Kings X but amazing how much can go wrong. Bits of broken track, we all had to get off in Cuffley, suicide on the line, bundled off at Knebworth, bomb scare on the line after someone dropped a bag off a bridge, a fellow commuter having a heart attack and a fire at a chemical plant which closed the line down for 3 days and we had to get buses laid on by the train company which looked like they had been nicked from Dads Army.
Several years ago, I took a train from Bradford-on-Avon to Bath Spa. This was a few weeks after the Ladbroke Grove crash. When it arrived, around an hour late, it consisted of one carriage and was packed solid. So was the train back.
