It's great when you are travelling somewhere and you make all your connections and get there on time, or if you're really lucky even get there ahead of schedule. It really is lovely. When it doesn't happen it's a bit of a bummer. Like tonight for instance. Bus, tube, train. Left work at five past nine. Took me nearly an hour to get to Ealing Broadway. It really is desperately irritating. Had to ring director him and say it was a no-no. Eventually got home about 15 minutes ago.
I think I have finally uncovered the problem with our railways though. There was a goods train derailment at Cricklewood a year ago and we got a copy of the findings of the inquiry into the incident today. Not that an exciting read to be honest, but there were some recommendations for future policy at the end.
The final one is the most important... 'Ensure that someone competent is in charge.' I kid you not. There in black & white. And following that it says: 'If that person is not there ensure that someone else has been briefed to the relevant level of competancy.'
So if you ever doubted it, it's now official. Our railways have, hitherto, been run by incompetent people. But then if you examined the timetable of the line in and out of London from Langley and saw the size of the trains and the conditions in which people have to travel, you would know that for sure already.
Thought for the day: 'If God had meant us to fly, he would never have given us the railways.' Link between the sketch 'By Air' and the song 'Slow Train'. Michael Flanders. At The Drop Of A Hat. Flanders & Swann
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