A 2 hour Paddington – Paddington (again) – Reading journey
You couldn’t make it up.
24 hours after publishing a post on a 3 month escalator project and the rise in train fares, I experienced a 2 hour train journey to Reading from Paddington.
My First Great Western journey took 2 hours because shortly after leaving Paddington, my train slowed to a halt as the train in front broke down. Our train lay motionless on the track for more than 30 minutes before the driver decided to head back to Paddington before resuming our journey.
As we proceeded along a different track, our train again slowed as we encountered congestion on the line – a consequence of the mechanical failure.
Despite this, there was no humour failure on the train. A female passenger cheered us up with her sardonic observations, for example. Fellow Twitterer Tinnion meanwhile showed how he let the train take the strain.