A very big welcome to this, my blog. I hope you find it interesting. If you have ever watched the hit US TV series Seinfeld, you might be familiar with the format, that is, this is a blog about nothing. Now there is an idea. You see, on the train every day I come across day to day scenarios that are familiar to us all in our own worlds, frustration, anger, humour, kindness, arrogance and many more besides. Of all of these I am glad to say that humour is by far the most common because you can find the humour in any situation. Of course, there are days when nothing of note happens at all. However, these days are rare. When you do get one of these days then you are thankful but it gives you more time to reflect on important matters such as who was the model for our uniform ! But more about that later.
During the coming blogs I shall introduce various characters who work on or use the railway. Their identities, naturally, will be kept a closely guarded secret as you would expect, but rest assured all the events I shall talk about are real and not made up. In some instances I may have heard about them second hand not having been directly involved but they will be real life events. We often comment when sat around in our messrooms up and down the line that 'you could not make it up' and as you will see some situations are so bizarre you really could not.
Also, I shall not use these ramblings to pass comment on any of my colleagues or my employers. I am very grateful to have been given the chance to work on our railways and will keep my personal inner most thoughts to myself with regards to certain matters. I will, from time to time, refer to some of my previous experiences where I feel it may link to the subject matter that I am writing about.
I do hope you enjoy my thoughts and if you are ever on a train you might spare a thought for the much maligned train crew.
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