Bagel Belly Blog

Bring back steam

More travel dissatisfaction. The weekday peak time for trains returning from London to Norwich has been extended to 3pm-7pm. That's a four hour window where the price goes from a reasonable £35 to almost £70.

In the mornings the window is 5.30 to 8.00, a more reasonable two and a half hours. But if you want to do a return trip to London outside of peak hours, with the two hour trip factored in you now get a luxurious 3 hours to do your business. Marvelous.

I should buy me a train company. Seems like a license to print money.

I wrote the above last week whilst waiting for the 7pm train. What I didn't know was that all the trains were delayed, so in the end I got home at midnight, three hours later than planned. Once again, Norwich moves further away from London. I still love traveling by train though, as being out of the office can sometimes mean being away from distractions and interruptions, and ironically it then becomes an opportunity to think and work in a more focussed manner.