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How to get to London by train
Sep. 29th, 2007 08:34 am
... for a late evening of music:
Drive to Harlington station because there have been engineering works on the local line to Euston since about 1995. Maybe they will finish by 2095, but until then the journey home involves a much longer time bouncing around on a coach.
Arrive at Harlington and discover that the ticket machine is no more understandable than the ones in Japan - in fact less so, because the ones in Japan usually had a button for instructions in English. Eventually we conclude that it is impossible to buy network card discounted tickets, and buy authority to travel.
After arriving at Kings Cross, queue for ten minutes to upgrade the authority to travel tickets to real tickets.
Dinner was good; curry at the Malabar Junction.
The music wasn't bad either, though the pub had run out of beer. There was nothing on handpump at all.
The journey home involved about 20 minutes on the coach, because there are now engineering works on the Harlington line - though the website showed no indication of this the night before. At least it wasn''t nearly such a long coach journey as the one from Watford (if you're lucky) or Euston to Leighton Buzzard.
Japan seems to work well. Why doesn't Britain?
I am writing this on the computer in the local tyre and exhaust centre as I wait for a slow puncture to be repaired - so I can be a few minutes late arriving at Warwick. They have a laptop available to keep customers occupied - a good idea methinks.
Drive to Harlington station because there have been engineering works on the local line to Euston since about 1995. Maybe they will finish by 2095, but until then the journey home involves a much longer time bouncing around on a coach.
Arrive at Harlington and discover that the ticket machine is no more understandable than the ones in Japan - in fact less so, because the ones in Japan usually had a button for instructions in English. Eventually we conclude that it is impossible to buy network card discounted tickets, and buy authority to travel.
After arriving at Kings Cross, queue for ten minutes to upgrade the authority to travel tickets to real tickets.
Dinner was good; curry at the Malabar Junction.
The music wasn't bad either, though the pub had run out of beer. There was nothing on handpump at all.
The journey home involved about 20 minutes on the coach, because there are now engineering works on the Harlington line - though the website showed no indication of this the night before. At least it wasn''t nearly such a long coach journey as the one from Watford (if you're lucky) or Euston to Leighton Buzzard.
Japan seems to work well. Why doesn't Britain?
I am writing this on the computer in the local tyre and exhaust centre as I wait for a slow puncture to be repaired - so I can be a few minutes late arriving at Warwick. They have a laptop available to keep customers occupied - a good idea methinks.
