Monday 30 March 2015

42060 – 18:03 Monday 30th March

42060

Carriage E on the 18:03 Penzance service.

There’s nothing more to really say. I even got both seats to myself and slept like a new born baby whilst looking like a dribbling old fart.

Thursday 26 March 2015

42287 – 18:37 Thursday 26th March

42287

Sorry I’ve been away for so long. To make up for it, here’s a selfie aboard 42287, the Carriage C on tonight’s 18:37 to Frome……

….which, amazingly…..and I’m not making this up…….

…..was on time tonight!

And the Train Manager wasn’t a scruffy slob.


Monday 16 March 2015

Monday 2 March 2015

44029 – 18:03 Monday 2nd March

44029

Remember me? The annoying tit who’s still whittling on about bleedin’ FGW carriages?

Well I’m back and amazingly enough managed to capture one of the few remaining carriage A’s left as I sat in 44029 on the 18:03 Penzance service.

It was quite possibly the noisiest Carriage A I’ve been in for a long time but as the Train Manager made his way through the babbling crowd, checking tickets it got me thinking about certain FGW ticket rules.

One of the chattering cows on one of the table seats was asked for her seat reservation as well as her ticket. Now I know that some advance fares have a mandatory seat reservation included but what I’m puzzled about is why the TM needs to see it? I mean, the train has left, so presumably she’s not taking someone else’s reservation and in what way does seeing her reservation make her ticket “more valid”, it’s not like it proves her identity or anything. And let us just for a moment imagine another possible scenario.

I board the train with my super-dooper super-saver ticket and discover that the seat that I’ve had to reserve isn’t where I want to sit.

Perhaps it’s dirty, perhaps there’s a big fatty in the seat next to it overflowing onto the arm-rest, perhaps there’s some git on a mobile blathering to their mother about their recent hysterectomy or perhaps the last occupant has left it wet and stinking (happened to me once……I mean I once sat in a wet and stinking seat by mistake, not that I left a seat wet…..honest) so I decide to sit in another vacant seat.

The TM then starts his inspection and asks for my seat reservation. I show it and explain why I’m not in the seat. What would then happen……..I guess what I’m asking is, do I “have” to sit in the reserved seat and as I’ve said before, in what way does seeing my reservation make my ticket “more valid”?

Make sense?

Nope. Me neither.