Safety, Travel

Manchester, Birchwood, Inverness – drama in Edinburgh

Good morning Manchester
Manchester Piccadilly is busy
Waiting for the train
Birchwood Station
Back to Birchwood, the leaves have been cleared.

The train is delayed by trespassers.

Off at Warrington Central.

The delay meant I could not get a decent lunch.

A short ride between Warrington train stations
Warrington Bank Quay

The train to Edinburgh was delayed due to trespassers. However there was plenty of leeway to catch the connecting train, especially if I changed at Haymarket.

River Ribble
Lancaster
River Laune

As we headed north the delayed train lost time rather than catching up.

We arrived at Haymarket. As I got off the train. I heard the Inverness train leaving. That added another hour to the journey. Why can’t the trains cooperate to avoid these problems. It was minutes. And why was the Edinburgh train continually slowed down.

Food at Fava Greek Kitchen

Time to kill so time to grab food.

Back to Haymarket

Now this is when things got crazy.

I was looking at the display times for the trains on platform four. A man stumbled down the stairs grabbed hold of one my belt loops, span round out of control, falling off the platform, onto the train track. At that point my thoughts were , was a train coming, how do we get this man off the tracks, going down onto the tracks was not an option, too risky. We coaxed the man to his feet, and four complete strangers hauled the man onto the platform.. We restrained the man to stop a further incident.

I thought that the next train was mine, got on discovered it wasn’t. After getting on the correct train I realised just how traumatic I had found the incident.

Arrived in a foggy Inverness
Foggy view from the hotel

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