Reading Roars!

More train woes.  This morning my First Great Western train to Paddington crawled along the track at an average speed of 50mph, marginally faster than the speed of an Ostrich.  Choo choo! Just to compare, a new super-fast train was unveiled yesterday in France.  The AGV will cruise at a speed of 210 mph and was described by its train maker Alstom as the rail equivalent of the A380 “Superjumbo”.  We, too, have a jumbo: a jumbo mess resulting from rail privatisation.

Services between Reading and Paddington tonight were considerably slower still.  Due to a “fatality in the Burnham area” trains were either delayed or cancelled.  I was seriously contemplating catching the Heathrow Express to the airport then the Rail Air coach back to Reading. Eventually, I was allowed to board the 19:48 train two hours later than scheduled.  Two hours!

What will tomorrow bring?