*continues spamming* Rail strike?

[pez]

Possible rail strikes http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5173954.stm

No. Don't strike on 27th July for 48 hours. quatorze and I need to go to York!!! This is not funny. Please solve the dispute soon!

(am having cup-a-soup to help my hunger a bit...)

Comments

[quatorze.livejournal.com]

*drops something* WTF?! No, this can't be true! I just refuse to believe it...

This kind of thing seems to follow me around. Back in year zero, guess who was Interrailing in Britain when there were strikes for several weeks? Yeah, that was me. I'll never forget walking through a completely deserted Victoria Station in the middle of the day and looking at this genuine old-fashioned blackboard where somebody had hand-written that "the following trains will run today", followed by maybe five or six connections... and thus I never dared go to Scotland, among many other places, because I couldn't be sure that I'd ever get back before my Interrail card expired.

No, this isn't funny at all!!!

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Both sides *usually* end up backing down a bit to talk and stuff, and the last few times when it looked like my journey would get interrupted, things resolved in the end. There's still 2 weeks until the Squeefest, hopefully they'll sort it out before then!!!

[quatorze.livejournal.com]

Yeah, luckily there's still 2 weeks! *keeping fingers crossed* Let's keep hoping, very hard!

[lpatobe.livejournal.com]

and/or look into coach services in the meantime?

[quatorze.livejournal.com]

Might do that, just in case...

[lpatobe.livejournal.com]

I did, for the outwards journey (although I haven't checked all the refund terms yet). Fortunately it leaves about an hour after the train I'd booked onto and I can just walk across from the train station to the coach stop.