Welcome to the United Kingdom
If I thought Gatwick was a disgrace going out, it was only because I hadn’t tried it going in.
It was like entering a building site and it was a long walk to passport control, which seemed to have been set up by vaguely clearing an area of the site. I’ve seen better facilities in countries that are very much less wealthy than the UK.
There was no signage to the trains and yet again trains south of the Thames were very badly organised. It appeared that I needed to go to Platform 1, but after getting to the platform and finding one of the invisible staff, he said I needed Platform 4 for London Bridge.
To be fair the train arrived on time and there was a 141 bus waiting to take me home.
If you compare Gatwick to St. Pancras, it’s like comparing a twenty-year-old Skoda with a modern Jaguar.
It’s the last time, I’ll use that dump.
Related
March 31, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Flying, Gatwick Airport, London Bridge Station
2 Comments »
Leave a reply to John Cancel reply
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
About This Blog
What this blog will eventually be about I do not know.
But it will be about how I’m coping with the loss of my wife and son to cancer in recent years and how I manage with being a coeliac and recovering from a stroke. It will be about travel, sport, engineering, food, art, computers, large projects and London, that are some of the passions that fill my life.
And hopefully, it will get rid of the lonely times, from which I still suffer.
Why Anonymous? That’s how you feel at times.
Charities
Useful Links
Top Posts
- Taking A Train From Platform 1 At West Croydon Station
- The Pedestrian Tunnels In Bank Station
- Mystery Tours Of Glasgow
- TfL Moots Bakerloo Line To Hayes
- Biography
- A Pedestrian Connection Between City Thameslink Station And St. Paul's Tube Station
- Every Picture Tells a Story
- My University Scarf Rides Again
- Network Rail's Independently Powered Electric Multiple Unit (IPEMU) Trial Report
- Sheffield Region Transport Plan 2019 - Tram-Trains Between Sheffield And Doncaster-Sheffield Airport
WordPress Admin
-
Join 1,883 other subscribers
Archives
Categories
- Advertising Architecture Art Australia Banks Battery-Electric Trains BBC Buses Cambridge Coeliac/Gluten-Free Construction COVID-19 Crossrail Death Decarbonisation Design Development Docklands Light Railway Driving East Coast Main Line Electrification Elizabeth Line Energy Engineering Entertainment Floating Wind Power Flying Football France Freight Germany Global Warming/Zero-Carbon Good Design Gospel Oak And Barking Line Greater Anglia Great Western Railway Heathrow Airport High Speed Two Highview Power Hydrogen-Powered Trains Innovation Internet Ipswich Town King's Cross Station Law Liverpool London London Overground London Underground Manchester Marks and Spencer Network Rail New Stations Offshore Wind Power Olympics Phones Politics Project Management Religion Research Scotland Shopping Solar Power Stations Step-Free Stroke Television Thameslink The Netherlands Trains United States Walking Weather Wind Power Zopa
Tweets
Tweets by VagueShot
The Anonymous Widower 
it beat Heathrow in a recent chart of international airports.
Comment by John | March 31, 2011 |
C had a lot of relatives who lived on the Isle of Sheppey. In the 1960s, there was talk about building a new London airport on the island. They were all for it. It’s still a good idea, as apart from one of two buildings, it’s not an island with much to say for it.
Comment by AnonW | March 31, 2011 |