42567 & 42514 – 09:34 & 18:37 Tuesday 9th December

42567 & 42514

Another day of disruption and freezing nuts on windswept platforms as signals at Theale decided to prevent any trains leaving from Newbury for the morning.

By the time I’d called Mrs BGC into service and got a lift into Reading, I was just in time to sit in Carriage E, 42567, on the 09:34 to Paddington.

The disruption on the way home at least had a comic element as the 18:37 Frome was delayed by a wild swan on the line. I stood in another Carriage E, 42514 and chortled myself to death over possibly the finest swan related tweet ever.

Watch out Jimmy Carr