Train delayed

This is why the 8:07 pm train from Cambridge (originating at King's Cross) to Kings Lynn, and subsequent other trains, were delayed on Saturday: a fight broke out amongst some of the passengers in the first carriage.


Another passenger, in our carriage, I think, pulled the cord.  This is not the right thing to do.  Don't pull the cord.  The driver gets upset and makes many announcements about how no-one else is to pull the cord.

Because someone pulled the cord, we had to wait in the middle of farmland for ever till the police came.  A few people came into our carriage from the troublesome carriage to avoid the trouble.

When the police did come, they hauled the troublemakers off the train, but they were still up for a fight.  Four or five police officers wrestled the bloke in the blue top and pale trousers to the ground and tied his knees up to restrain him before putting him in one of the police vans, while the topless bloke remonstrated with the police.  It was rumoured on the train that they had caught one of two that had escaped the train when it stopped and run off across the wheat fields, maybe towards the solar farm.

After the police had driven off, the train started moving again.  The driver made an announcement: the train would terminate at Ely.  Everyone who wanted to go beyond Ely groaned.  Then we were told not to pull the cord.

At Ely, everyone trooped off.  We'd been waiting so long, that the two later trains had caught up to us.  They announced that the next train would go on to Watlington and Kings Lynn, and the one after that would stop at all stations to Kings Lynn.

We got home two hours later than expected.

On the plus side, I got to see the pretty sunset from the stopped train.