How do all our local commuters do it?

Fortunately I don’t have to travel down to London too often. But yesterday was one of my gatherings with fellow Town Clerks down in the big smoke. Journey down to London was fine and it was a good meeting. We all escaped in time to avoid the tube strike which was starting early in the evening.

Then it all went wrong. A train had hit some cows further up the line, so everything stopped at Bishop’s Stortford.

Eventually, we caught a coach from their to Stansted Airport and then a train to Castle Lofts, arriving about 90 minutes late. Lots of desperate airline passengers at Stortford trying to get to Stansted in time to catch their flights.

Fortunately I don’t have to take the train very often. But My sympathy goes out to those who have to do so every day.