The state of the fucking railway

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After trumpeting their green credentials, passengers are trying to get beyond Milton Keynes to Edinburgh - with tales of reporters giving each other lifts of over 300 miles to Scotland because all the planes are full.

I tried to travel 18 miles by train, only to find that today everything i fucked by 'essential' rail works that shut down or diverted everything north of Birmingham.

A rail replacement bus service was going to take three times as long as the train to get there and I was going to miss the event I was going to.

Now, there's a train collision in a tunnel - Wiltshire Police say it's lucky there are no fatalities.

The crash has swiped signalling over a wide area and there are delays all over the network

WTF is going on??

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10150571/Two-trains-collide-one-left-accident-near-Salisbury.html

Absolutely all best wishes to him, the speculation surrounding this has been awful.

@missbunnyrabbit

I went on holiday to Edinburgh last week from Lancashire - journey in was fine, but on Thursday, when we were due to come back, all the trains were cancelled due to flooding or something on the west coast. It was very stressful and after speaking to several people at the station, managed to find an alternative route down the east coast.

It took nearly 6 hours instead of just over 2

That will have been the flooding in Cumbria which has been, if not quite as bad as 2016, fairly horrendous. Not much they could do about that. All local transport, and energy etc was affected.

Your problem does illustrate the lack of redundancy in the network generally though, especially in the north, (and possibly the lack of regional information on national news nowadays).