[garynortheast]

Well, that didn’t go quite as planned. On the way to Birmingham this morning, the train stopped between Shrewsbury and Wellington for about 15 minutes before going slowly on into Wellington.An hours wait while the poor conductor tried to find out what was happening. All the signalling between Wellington and Wolverhampton had gone down. By the time we knew what was happening it was no longer worth me trying to make it to B’ham. The train at Wellington went a short way up the line and came back down the other side and took us back to Shrewsbury. Another hour’s wait before the train back to Welshpool.
I felt sorry for the TfW staff who were quite unjustifiably taking it in the neck over the problem, which was not of their making, rather it was a bloody Network Rail issue.

I’ll try again next weekend!