I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but I am unable to stop myself from commenting on the fact that National Rail are spoiling my social life for the FOURTH Saturday in a row. This time I have the relatively modest goal of trying to get to Peterborough for 10am on Saturday morning. You wouldn’t think, in this day and age, that that would be a virtually impossible task. (more…)

Right now I would happily commit murder.

For the past THREE weekends in a row Network Rail have seen fit to carry out engineering works on the line between Birmingham and Leicester. Now I appreciate that engineering works occasionally have to be done, but this is at least the third or fourth time they have cancelled a couple of week’s worth of trains in the last six months.

They do, of course, provide rail replacement buses instead. And don’t we all love a good rail replacement bus! (more…)