There can be few more deeply unpleasant places to wile away your miserable existence than on the London Underground. The Tube is 249 miles long, carries over a billion passengers every year and on this particular evening, it seemed most had chosen to join me on the £4 journey to Victoria. It was rammed. [...]
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Stand Back From The Platform
Posted in middle aged despair, travel, tagged London, Tube, Underground on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
All Aboard
Posted in middle aged despair, travel, youth of today, tagged train on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I ventured south of the great dividing line between the north and proper north – Scotch Corner Services- to earn a crust working in London. Trundling through the countryside on the East Coast main line our carriages are packed. More than packed. Heaving. I was one of the lucky ones to get a [...]
