Monday, 3 January 2011

Sign of the times

Half past one the other day at King's Lynn railway station (please, never the baby-talk "train station"), and this was the main departure screen:


Two things: why was the 1056 still showing on the board, despite that and two other later trains having long-since left, on time?

And secondly, where the Hell is WENXTSE?

I know this part of the world very well, but even I had to work out that, of course, it stands for Wells-next-the-Sea. Why have they done that? And how can it be a "Rail Replacement Bus Service" when the last railway line to Wells (or even anywhere near it) was removed more than three decades ago? How passenger-unfriendly is that?

Still, what else can we expect from this appalling company.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thank goodness a fellow Briton objects to that vile term "Train Station" which seems to be barging into the vocabulary uninvited on this side of the Atlantic; I've often heard it lately on the BBC and read it in otherwise decent newspapers - UGH!!! You're a man of taste, LeDuc.