The melty wax house on Southwark Street
(Very) Long Train (Not) Running, Stowmarket, Suffolk - 21st October 2014
It's another day of hell on the train to work in London, as the already-delayed 08:17 which has sort-of become the 08:47 gets held up before even leaving Diss because some knobwit manages to drive in to the railway bridge over Victoria Road. Then, just outside Stowmarket, the original fault that caused the delay leaving Norwich re-appears and the train is officially announced as dead. The actual 08:47, stuck behind, then gets the job of joining up to form a single 21-unit train - half a kilometre long - and push the broken set up the line to Stowmarket, where both trains are helpfully terminated. Three trains full people people cram on to a single set to continue on to London, or bail out and return up the line to Diss and Norwich, about one-and-a-half hours late.
next album: Another Walk around Thornham Estate, Suffolk - 27th October 2014
previous album: On The Beach Again, Southwold, Suffolk - 12th October 2014
The wax house has started melting
Upstairs is melting into down
Another view of the melting wax house
The seedy-looking Jazz Convenience Store
Nosher's bike gets marked by the Met Police
Bike marking in Guy's Hospital quad
Dodgy back-street leading from Guy's hospital
The delayed 08:47 rolls up to push us along
The two trains are joined up
Looking down to the front of the train
The other train's driver
The 08:47's driver jumps up into the DVT
The two guards mill around as the trains are joined
The longest train in Suffolk, from one end to the other
Class 57 57303 rumbles by
57303 could do with a bit of a clean
Class 57 57011 forms the second part of a pair
Just to add to the misery, it starts lashing
Water drips dow the carriages
Thank you for travelling with us. Indeed.
Some sort of derelict ironwork
The train crawls off to Colchester
A big pile of junked concrete
Haughley Junction off the mainline
Some railway wiring has been sprayed white
Another set of points on Haughley Junction
The derelict Railway Tavern
The Railway Tavern pub near Haughley Junction
There's a rainbow on the train
Stowmarket graffiti under the A14
Under the A14
The monster train parked at Stowmarket
Passengers get off at Stowmarket
A busy Stowmarket Station
There's another train right behind
The platform at Stowmarket is filling up
The second half of the train pulls in
Two joined-up trains
The massive train at Stowmarket
Another view of the long train
The crowded Platform 2 at Stowmarket
Another 500 people pile off the train
Hundreds of people pile over the bridge
A stream of people cross the bridge
Class 90 loco 90005 The Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson
Three trainloads of people cram on to another train
The rare sight of two DVTs at the same end
Another delayed train is queued up up the line
The broken train is left alone again
The following train crosses the line
90003 Raedwald passes the broken train
The train back to Norwich fills up
Simple graffiti on a building near the station
Network Rail dudes walk down the platform
A green Eye of Sauron watches everything
A tin of walnuts
A bunch of walnuts
A nice collection of conkers and random stuff
Parts of an oold hard drive, in bits
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The melty wax house on Southwark Street
The melty wax house on Southwark Street
The wax house has started melting
Upstairs is melting into down
Another view of the melting wax house
The seedy-looking Jazz Convenience Store
Nosher's bike gets marked by the Met Police
Bike marking in Guy's Hospital quad
Dodgy back-street leading from Guy's hospital
The delayed 08:47 rolls up to push us along
The two trains are joined up
Looking down to the front of the train
The other train's driver
The 08:47's driver jumps up into the DVT
The two guards mill around as the trains are joined
The longest train in Suffolk, from one end to the other
Class 57 57303 rumbles by
57303 could do with a bit of a clean
Class 57 57011 forms the second part of a pair
Just to add to the misery, it starts lashing
Water drips dow the carriages
Thank you for travelling with us. Indeed.
Some sort of derelict ironwork
The train crawls off to Colchester
A big pile of junked concrete
Haughley Junction off the mainline
Some railway wiring has been sprayed white
Another set of points on Haughley Junction
The derelict Railway Tavern
The Railway Tavern pub near Haughley Junction
There's a rainbow on the train
Stowmarket graffiti under the A14
Under the A14
The monster train parked at Stowmarket
Passengers get off at Stowmarket
A busy Stowmarket Station
There's another train right behind
The platform at Stowmarket is filling up
The second half of the train pulls in
Two joined-up trains
The massive train at Stowmarket
Another view of the long train
The crowded Platform 2 at Stowmarket
Another 500 people pile off the train
Hundreds of people pile over the bridge
A stream of people cross the bridge
Class 90 loco 90005 The Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson
Three trainloads of people cram on to another train
The rare sight of two DVTs at the same end
Another delayed train is queued up up the line
The broken train is left alone again
The following train crosses the line
90003 Raedwald passes the broken train
The train back to Norwich fills up
Simple graffiti on a building near the station
Network Rail dudes walk down the platform
A green Eye of Sauron watches everything
A tin of walnuts
A bunch of walnuts
A nice collection of conkers and random stuff
Parts of an oold hard drive, in bits