Happy new year ... late
It has been a while since posting - first time on the train this new year. I've travelled but I've flown, so a wholly different experience. A very cold day - minus 3 when I left home; which made my causal assertion that a credit card would be an adequate windscreen scraper foolish in retrospect. I'm on the stopper strain which gets busy 2/3 of the way in and has "close" seats. This last aspect is reinforced by the chap sitting next to me who has spread out as much as he can - apparently his knees aren't allowed to get near to touching each other! Wednesday must be an office day, as the train is packed, but it may be to do with the fast train rarely stopping at what was a main station pre-pandemic. Half the plugs don't work on this train and the heating is patchy - but apparently we have a well funded railway system... I'm late back today, so I look forward to being on the fiest evening off peak train!