I like Virgin Trains!
Jul. 20th, 2006 01:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yrieithyddOr perhaps more accurately `I like Virgin trains!'. I.e. I like the Virgin Voyager rather than the train company seeing as I need to rant at them about being an hour and a half late yesterday.*
The reason I like the Voyager is that it has the wonderful feature of two electric power points per table into which one can plug one's laptop. Therefore despite spending far too much time travelling in the last two days I've got a reasonable amount of work done. Yes I was tired and hungry when I eventually reached Sheffield yesterday but at least I'd been able to use that time productively and the air-con was working so it was actually more pleasant to be on the train than at my parents'.
The 35 mins at Parkway weren't pleasant because that was just too hot and there was nowhere (or much power as battery must have been quite low from the leg from Cardiff) to work.
*It's too hot so the network's in chaos. Amusingly though, today I was only 7 mins late despite both trains running over half an hour because I arrived at Sheffield Station at 1540 expecting to catch the 1553 to somewhere Bristol or South West** only to see that it was running 20 minutes late. What I failed to notice was that the 1523 was still showing on the boards but then it was announced. So I went and caught it. The 1841 (which would have been my connection) was cancelled but the 1813 arrived at 1846, so we got to Cardiff for 1926 rather than the expected 1919. The tickets the trainline had failed to post (again) weren't available there though.
**The 1623 was `direct' to Cardiff but it would (assuming sensible running) been 20 minutes quick to change to a London-Cardiff/Swansea train at Bristol Parkway
The reason I like the Voyager is that it has the wonderful feature of two electric power points per table into which one can plug one's laptop. Therefore despite spending far too much time travelling in the last two days I've got a reasonable amount of work done. Yes I was tired and hungry when I eventually reached Sheffield yesterday but at least I'd been able to use that time productively and the air-con was working so it was actually more pleasant to be on the train than at my parents'.
The 35 mins at Parkway weren't pleasant because that was just too hot and there was nowhere (or much power as battery must have been quite low from the leg from Cardiff) to work.
*It's too hot so the network's in chaos. Amusingly though, today I was only 7 mins late despite both trains running over half an hour because I arrived at Sheffield Station at 1540 expecting to catch the 1553 to somewhere Bristol or South West** only to see that it was running 20 minutes late. What I failed to notice was that the 1523 was still showing on the boards but then it was announced. So I went and caught it. The 1841 (which would have been my connection) was cancelled but the 1813 arrived at 1846, so we got to Cardiff for 1926 rather than the expected 1919. The tickets the trainline had failed to post (again) weren't available there though.
**The 1623 was `direct' to Cardiff but it would (assuming sensible running) been 20 minutes quick to change to a London-Cardiff/Swansea train at Bristol Parkway
