The other morning I did something unusual. I left the house to walk to the train station without putting in my earphones. For me, this is rare. My normal routine has me loading up a podcast within seconds of shutting the front door. I then listen to that for the first 30-odd minutes of my commute, before switching to music […]
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It’s good to talk
Sometimes you have journeys that remind you that life isn’t for sitting staring at a device. Last night on a packed, delayed train home to Brighton the chap next to me asked me if I did this every day. I explained I did and we got to talking. 40 minutes later after having talked about (among other things) both visiting […]
Read moreHow can you design a train with so many mistakes?
*** 23/01/18 UPDATE *** I realised that it was a good 6 months since my last email to Thameslink to find out what was happening with the improvements to Class 700 stock, so I got in touch and had a response last week. You can view the whole response by clicking this link here, but essentially it was full of […]
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