How to be Safe from Falling Concrete Mixers
After vreading this story, you obviously need to be in a train!
It’s not really too practical a solution as you don’t often have a train handy, when you see a concrete mixer falling out of the sky!
Luckily no-one was seriously hurt!
How to Survive Tragedy
Alan Dickinson, a solicitor from Sudbury, was nearly killed in a train crash at Little Cornard two months ago. Today, the East Anglian Daily Times reports how he got back on the train again.
Mr Dickinson, a partner with Tomlinson and Dickinson solicitors in Sudbury, faced his demons today as he boarded the branch line at Sudbury for the first time since the crash.
“I need to get the monkey off my back,” he said.
Waiting on the platform to board the 9am train this morning, Mr Dickinson said he had no fears of returning to the scene of the smash, which almost claimed his life.
“Rail travel is very safe, I have no concerns,” he said.
Mr Dickinson was the worst injured in the crash, in which he was struck in the chest by the table in front of him in the carriage.
Despite walking off the train with fellow passengers, Mr Dickinson was flown to Colchester Hospital then the Royal London Hospital with internal bleeding.
But just two months after the smash, Mr Dickinson, who has lost a stone in weight since the incident, was once more aboard the Sudbury train.
He also bears no ill-feeling towards the tanker driver, who has admitted causing the crash.
He has certainly got all his dignity back too!
Incidentally, in the paper he is shown holding a copy of the Racing Post, so perhaps he knows something about luck and the real odds in life!
It’s Only a Small Step for Beccles
There was news today, that the government had put forward funding to create a loop at Beccles, so that the frequency of trains between Lowestoft and Ipswich can be doubled.
This is very much to be welcomed and does it mean that we’ll start to see more developments on East Anglian railways.
We also need some new trains, to replace some of the crap.
Gerard Fiennes and Delia Smith Get Coupled
They were really scraping the barrel for trains tonight from Cambridge to Ipswich tonight, as all they had was two of the one-coach Class 153; Gerard Fiennes and Delia Smith, coupled together. Interestingly, the Class 153s were created by splitting a Class 155 in half. so that was a bit of a waste of time and money.
Gerard Fiennes and Delia Smith at Dullingham
What Would Sir John Have Thought?
This sign was outside the pub named after Sir John Betjeman in St. Pancras Station.
The Last Pub Before Paris
I don’t even know whether Sir John liked a drink or not!
The New Kings Cross Station Takes Shape
Before catching the train back to Suffolk from King’s Cross, this afternoon, I walked between the station and St. Pancras and took this photo of the new station.
King's Cross Takes Shape
Hopefully, it’ll be ready in time for the Olympics. At least though, they’ve filled in the hole left by the Nazis in the Second World War.
Geffrye Museum
Today I paid a visit to the Geffrye Museum, which is just a short walk from Hoxton Station on the East London Line.
It is a charming museum, which has a succession of interiors of tytpical English houses over the last few centuries.
The museum is well worth a visit.
Peak Restrictions in Children’s Holidays
This half-term it would appear that the restrictions on rerurning on busy trains out of London have been removed. I suppose it’s not a bad idea to make up for the lost revenue because lots of people won’t be commuting.
There were quite a few kids on the trains today, so if it gets them into the habit of travelling by train, it is probably not a bad thing!
Stagecoach’s View on the Cambridge Busway
I took this picture yesterday.
Will I be on the busway soon?
The Anonymous Widower 