Trains

Got to Grimsby an hour late, after a train journey where we took none of the trains we were booked on!

Pre booking a train journey is hugely cheaper than buying on on the day, and when we headed home from Grimsby we booked the same journey in reverse at the same. That meant getting a train into Tottenham Hale from Stortford at 1032 on Saturday morning, and we were at the station in plenty of time. We knew something was wrong the instant we arrived though, as the station was full of people standing around, and as soon as we got onto the platform we saw the station notice that all trains towards London were cancelled due to a fatality at Chesunt.

I don't know what it is about our line, but far too many drivers end up traumatised by people dying under the trains. Accident or intentional it has messed up our travel plans on more than one occasion. This time it seems to have been an accident. Our deep sympathy to the family of the deceased and to the driver of the train.

There was a Cambridge train waiting on the up platform (the timetable was messed up in that direction too) and we were told that all tickets would be honoured as far as Cambridge, from were we could get a train into London Kings Cross. More to the point for us we could get a train to Peterborough from were we couod catch a train to Doncaster and then connect to Grimsby. Julian took a photo of the station announcement board to explain why we had missed our pre-booked trains, but none of the ticket inspectors asked for proof, or even an explanation, and the journey itself went very well.