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Your Last Train Journey?

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Lets have a thread for discussing our last train journeys, how awesome insanely fun!

Yeah I know, i have insomnia, can't sleep blahdy blah.

Lets keep it in a nice format, to make it easier to read.

Destination: Leeds
From: Huddersfield
Company: First Transpennine Express
Train Class: Class 185
Details: Had a lovely overcrowded 185, about time they fixed overcrowding on those, IMO.
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Destination: Birmingham New Street
From: London Euston
Company: Virgin
Details: First time on a Pendelino, and I found it very enjoyable. Quick and clean.
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jake.grimshaw wrote:Destination: Birmingham New Street
From: London Euston
Company: Virgin
Details: First time on a Pendelino, and I found it very enjoyable. Quick and clean.
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To: Cromer
From: Gunton
Company: National Express East Anglia
Details: It was late which is get annoyingly common.
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Destination: Liverpool Lime Street
From: Cardiff Central
Company: Arriva Trains Wales, Merseyrail
Details: Went to Cardiff to see White Lies, came back, on time. what more to say?
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Destination: St Neots
From: Huntingdon
Company: First Capital Connect
Details: Seven minutes? Bah. Took 22 minutes due to some sort of "issue" with Offord level crossing. Heating broken.
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Destination: Toronto Union Station
From: Unionville GO Station
Company: Go Transit
Details: Quite smooth, saw the new double track development near the Markham Junction (something like that)
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From: Stourbridge Town
To: Preston
TOC: London Midland, Virgin Trains
Details: Had a huge weekend at home with my friends. Stourbridge Town to Smethwick Galton Bridge was fine, then got lucky as I'd made a mad leap for the 1708 LM service thinking I'd missed it, only for it to be a couple of minutes late. I'm such a hero. Then it was the usual Wolves-Preston run on Virgin. The train was brought to a stand north of Stafford due to a door sensor failing. I've never been on a train that's made an emergency stop before - it was quite dramatic. Driver checked all was okay and we got underway about 6 minutes down. Time was made up and I arrived back into Preston as darkness fell.
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From: Flint
To: Manchester Airport
Via: Chester, Crewe
TOC: Arriva Trains Wales, Northern Trains
Details: I was moving to America. As such, I had to get myself to the airport!
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Destination: Moorthorpe
From: Leeds
Company: Northern
Details: Commuting home from work, an un-exciting 153 ride. Dull dull dull.
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Badger wrote: Details: Commuting home from work, an un-exciting 153 ride. Dull dull dull.
I saw a lone ATW 153 at Birmingham International last week. Those coming off the plane and expecting the Virgin Intercity Express service to Birmingham New Street must have been disappointed!

First time I'd seen a lone 153 in the West Midlands for a long time.. (bar the Worley 153 of course)
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Destination: Stowmarket Sation
From: London Liverpool St.
Company: National Express
Details: Fatality on the line. Yawn. Supposed to be 19:30 - 21:00, ended up being about 22:00. *To make things worse the train was completely full so had to sit in doorway. Nice though as i probably had more fun talking to friends than i would have normally. :rolleyes:

EDIT: *also, as it seems the previous train was cancelled all reservations were suspended. how stupid is that? if you pay for a reservation, you can't cancel it can you?
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Destination: Totnes
From: Newton Abbot
Company: Crosscountry
Class: 220
Details: Chronic overcrowding. No seats available (even though the train only started at Plymouth), even taking into account it was a friday hardly makes it any better. If the government wants more people on the trains, they need more trains. I stood in the vestibule for ten minutes. Wasn't too bad but the toilet stink was gag-inducing.
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Edited first post with the class of train, for more interesting reading (by me, anyway, i always like knowing where certain trains operate)

Anyway, i got a train earlier today;


Destination: Manchester Piccadilly
From: Huddersfield
Company: First Transpennine Express
Train Class: Class 185
Details: A surprisingly undercrowded train, all things considering, was still a bit of standing, but not as bad as usual, although being fair, it was about 09:00...
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Destination: Karlberg
From: Stockholm Central
Company: Stockholms Lokaltrafik (SL) in co-operation with Stockholmståg
Train Class: SL X60
Details: Insanely snowy, the train was therefore 45 minutes late. Luckily, the train before this was running the same route, an hour late. Therefore, basically alone in the train!!
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From: Münchenstein Railway station
Destination: Basel SBB/SNCF (Gare CFF/SNCF)
Details: Commuting, It was -3 Degrees outside, the train was late, crowded, the heating broken.
Time: 08.14
Train Class: Stadler FLIRT
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Oh, wait. I just realised that post was a lie. That was my last UK train journey. My last train journey anywhere (assuming you don't count the local light rail service) was:

From: Hengelo Central Station
To: Schiphol Station
TOC: NS
Details: It was bloody early in the morning, I had been at WineConf, and had to get my flight back to the US. I watched The Office and an episode or two of Buffy. Fun times!
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Jolteon wrote:Destination: Manchester Piccadilly
From: Huddersfield
Details: A surprisingly undercrowded train, all things considering, was still a bit of standing, but not as bad as usual, although being fair, it was about 09:00...
Bloody lucky really considering there was a fatality at Bramley this morning and everything that should go the Bradford Interchange way was being diverted along the Huddersfield route! Bloody chaos, made my job damn hectic!
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Destination: Essen HBf
From: Essen west
Company: DB
Train Class: lul I dunoo
Details: a short one stop trip with a friend after Ice Skating.
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Destination: Unionville GO Station
From: Toronto Union GO Station
Details: Pretty usual, on the second level of the bi-level train car. One bad that after I got off the transfer stop, I didn't have the keys to get back into my house! hehe
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