Wednesday 3 September 2014

42035, 42197 & 40113 – 18:15, 18:03 & 18:37 Tuesday 2nd September & Wednesday 3rd September


 42035, 42197 & 40113


Yesterday was boring, even by the sleepy levels of this blog, with a single carriage captured on a slightly later than normal train, the 18:15 to Swansea. But 42035, a Carriage B, still got me to Reading in time for a sneaky Snickers in the waiting room.

Tonight was much, much more exciting when the 18:03, Penzance service saw me inside a re-badged Carriage F, otherwise known as 42197.

We were just about to leave on a very pleasant late summer’s evening when a portly chap in a zipped up puffa jacket asked if he could take the seat next to me. He then spent the next ½ hour in a constant round of wheezing, mopping his brow with his baseball cap and playing World of Warcraft on his laptop and never once did it occur to him to take off his jacket.

Ah well, each unto their own.

The 18:37 to Frome saw me aboard another Carriage F, 40113, and the weather was still so pleasant I stood by the open window in the vestibule and even managed to take a selfie complete with carriage number. 


Orderly queue ladies, orderly queue............



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