soozsnapz

By soozsnapz

A weird thing happened

I went on the train to see my cousin in Surrey. Necessary to change at Reading. She is a little frail now, in sheltered housing, so it was all arranged that her daughter would be there too. TraIn stopped at Chippenham, someone had jumped under a train near Reading and all trains from Reading to Paddington were stopped while it was dealt with/investigated. After an hour the station staff advised me to take the train back to Bristol that was just about to arrive, as there might not be any more getting through from London for a while. The train I was on would not move for a number of hours ( but they didn’t know exactly)
As well as letting them down, and I’m sure they had made a nice lunch for me, I was awfully upset a. for the person who died that they had no hope at all anymore . b. And for the train driver - my dad had a friend who was a train driver, who never recovered from this happening when he was driving and c the idea of being stuck in chippenham with no way forward or back. Now when I click on google it’s full of ‘things to do in Chippenham’ which is both funny and awful!
I took the photo originally as evidence for my refund claim - but it turns out it was the only one I took yesterday.

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