42300 – 18:03 Monday 10th November

42300

Oh it was all excitement on the Carriage Capture today, well actually it started on Friday when on my return to the homestead I found a large tube shaped package waiting for me.

Knowing that I hadn’t recently ordered anything recently from Amsterdam I was fairly confident that Mr @EverardsTiger had come up trumps and had fulfilled his promise to deliver a brand spanking new Everards Tiger brolly.

The brolly had his first trip to London today and took a leisurely journey back to Reading on the 18:03 Truro Service where he sat, with me, in Carriage E or 42300.

He also leapt aboard 42050, Carriage B on the 18:37 Frome but unfortunately this was a duplicate from the 24th of October.

42050 (again)

But even this couldn’t take the shine of a rather good day. Just a pity it didn’t actually rain!

42572 – 18:00 Tuesday 4th November

42572

Remember, remember, the 4th of November – Oh, all right then, don’t, it was fairly forgettable apart from one thing.

The train journey was certainly forgettable, aboard 42572 which was one of the refurbished carriages, now playing the role of Carriage B on the 18:00 Bristol Temple Meads service.

What was very re-memorable was that Mr Tiger, or @EverardsTiger as he’s known to people who he follows on Twitter, has been in touch and a new Tiger Brolly should be winging it’s way to chez BGC as I write and you read this interesting blog!

So it’ll be no more wet frizzy hair on the way to the pub, which in fact tomorrow night, so it will be one more night arriving home looking like Ugly Betty.

Hey ho……

42144 & 42266 – 18:03 & 18:37 Monday 3rd November

42144 & 42266

It was (another) awful day for the trains again. (I’m sure I’ve started a blog entry with that line before?)

Anyway what made the disturbance all the more poignant today was this was my first day back to the grindstone after a wonderful sunny week away on a sundrenched beach – I kid you not, it was November but even the BGC got his shirt off much to the delight of the locals.

The journey home was slightly better (signalling between Ealing & Hayes and Harlington anyone?) on the 18:03 Penzance Service travelling in Carriage E, 42144 and then onto the 18:37 Frome where I perched on another one of the folding seats in Carriage C, 42266.

And in other news I did get a phone call from FGW to confirm that it’s been 14 days since my @EverardsTiger beer umbrella was reported lost and it hasn’t turned up. So Mr Tiger, will you be true to your words?

42558 – 18:05 Monday 20th October

42558

Tragedy!

No, not the trains this time, they were running surprisingly on time and even though the 18:05 Frome Service had for some reason a smattering of kids about it (accompanied by posho mother who had obviously taught them to refer to bottled water as Evian) there was still room to get a cosy window seat in 42558, who was playing at being a Carriage E on this night.

No the tragedy was only discovered as I made my way home through the driving drizzle that’d I’d left my very favourite @EverardsTiger brolly aboard.

But all may not be lost, not only has @FGW Ollie given me the number for lost property but Everards themselves have tweeted back to say that if it’s not found they may be able to “sort something out”!

So it’s true, every rainy sky does have a silver lining!