Christmas trains: FAIL. 
Dec 28, 2008 in General, reviews
As I relax on the sofa, with the oil radiator thawing out my frozen toes and a large glass of Glenfiddich in my hand, I reflect on an evening misspent.
A journey from the Norfolk coast to London, which should have taken around 3 hours, 2 trains and 1 tube, took around 6 hours, 4 trains, 1 bus and a very long tube. The root causes were A: rail replacement work by Network Rail and B: an unexpected overhead line fault somewhere near Chelmsford.
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