Flightmapping's Blog

Last Friday, I got on an early evening train to London, at a time when services are often pretty busy, but I managed to get a seat fairly easily in the back of the train, and noticed that there was still a fair few other spaces available.  If there’s one thing I really try to avoid as much as possible when travelling by train, it is having to stand.  Unless I really do have to be someone at a specific time, I will always rather be on a late train than an overcrowded one.  Friday’s train was typical for this time of the day, and the senior conductors often make announcements advising passengers who were seated in the vestibule areas to move further back, where they can get a seat inside the carriage.  On this occasion, the senior conductor made an announcement that one of th...