It's probably better that the brakes are stuck on, rather than stuck off. I presume they are designed this way. Nonetheless, it's not getting us to Reading any faster and when we do manage to make it that extra 200 yards into the station no doubt we will be slung off the train. The buffet may be open but whether or not it has any lager left is debatable.
On the plus side, the train manager does sound extremely posh and domineering and not at all phased by the fact that the driver is currently smacking parts of the brakes with a rubber mallet.
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2 comments:
t"It's probably better that the brakes are stuck on, rather than stuck off."
Yep, it is better since if they were stuck off you'd likely crash when the train couldn't slow down to stop before hitting something (i.e: another train, buffer at the end of the line, etc, etc) and then you'd quite possibly die, especially if you've been travelling at 125mph!
"I presume they are designed this way."
Nope. What you seem to have overlooked is that trains make [xx] amount of journeys almost every day and as such they do suffer from the occasional faults here and there, like the one you've been affected by. It's just unlucky really. Go write a complaint to First Great Western for the attention of the fleet manager, or some such senior person.
Hi there,
I am currently researching a one hour TV investigative programme about the state of the nation's rail services.
We are in the very early stages of research and would like to talk to some commuters about their experiences.
I have been reading the posts on this website with interest and I would really appreciate it if I could talk to you in greater detail on the phone.
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