What do you do on the train?

[shinkansen09]

Well just to think forward as to what ill be doing on the train in half hour as I always do I will be.
1.get comfy
2.put on IPOD
3.look out the window looking for anything interesting.
4.have some sweets.
5.start to fall asleep.
6.snap myself outta it then get ready to get off.

Spot on Phoenix......me the same

1. Get comfy
2. Put on CD Walkman....(can`t afford an I-pod)
3.Look out the window looking for anything interesting.
4.Have some sweets.
5. Drink some coffee
6.Start to fall asleep.
7.Snap myself outta it, then get ready to put the brake on for the next station
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Why cross this out????? If you are a driver then you have slept (if only Micro Sleeps)at the controls......

ONLY MICRO SLEEPS:roll:
You don`t work nights do you Ken
It is also a dangerous practise.....ever seen a body without a head???
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Usually plenty of food,mags and its usually a railtour so if standard is at the front i try and look out of the window....

If standard is at the back????....you do not look out of the window??:roll:
as then it`s "Usually plenty of food,mags"

On a more serious note to expand the topic..."What do people read on the train"?
Mags?
Books?
Nobody has clarified what type of reading materials.
Newspapers, railway magazines, music magazines, car magazines, bike magazines, pornogaphfic material, timetables or Networkrail rule book?

 

[Techniquest]

On a more serious note to expand the topic..."What do people read on the train"?
Mags?
Books?
Nobody has clarified what type of reading materials.
Newspapers, railway magazines, music magazines, car magazines, bike magazines, pornogaphfic material, timetables or Networkrail rule book?

All sorts. On Friday, assuming I haven't finished it by then (started reading it early this morning and finding it hard not to carry on now!) I'll be reading Jeffrey Archer's A Prisoner Of Birth. As is usual with his books, I was hooked after just the first page.

Other stuff: Metro/London Lite/whatever free paper/any paper left on the train with exclusion to the awful Evening Standard. Rail magazines also included, as are timetables (I love reading new timetables to find any interesting/bizarre moves). Moves books and notebooks also included!

 

[Phoenix]

Spot on Phoenix......me the same

1. Get comfy
2. Put on CD Walkman....(can`t afford an I-pod)
3.Look out the window looking for anything interesting.
4.Have some sweets.
5. Drink some coffee
6.Start to fall asleep.
7.Snap myself outta it, then get ready to put the brake on for the next station

To be fair you get to points on any line where you know nothing interesting will turn up and you just hit the relaxing songsand your full of sweets so why not begin the power nap.
Im glad to here there are other likewise commuters

 

[Pumbaa]

On a serious note, I daydream. An awful lot. All the time actually. I never dream at night though - not once in my life have I been able to remember a dream.

 

[Spaceflower]

I recover .......and stink the train out with stale sweat and fresh mud

I'll tell you what had my head spinning the other day though....travelling with my bike on the front of a pacer, standing up and looking down the train, watching the outside world roll past, then entering a tunnel.....on exiting the tunnel, the reflections in all the train windows made the train appear to be travelling in the opposite direction, tail end first....was very wierd. I lost my balance almost!

 

[A0]

When on a train I....

fart

and pick my nose !

 

[43106]

I used to travel a lot between Kings Cross and Edinburgh. I used to take a folder with me and compile arithmetic puzzles that looked like cosswords (don't ask, for God's sake). Later, I used to time the journey, particularly going through significant stations, junctions and crossovers. I had to do this as I couldn't get any Working Timetable data.
Nowadays, I do the same on long journeys, but on short ones, I just look out of the window. On the odd occasion, I take CDs and a CD player (I'm too much of an old fart to muck about with mp3 players!

 

[Shinkensgone]

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On a more serious note to expand the topic..."What do people read ?[/QUOTE]

RAZZLE......

 

[O L Leigh]

No, he asked what you READ.

O L Leigh

 

[shinkansen09]

No, he asked what you READ.

O L Leigh

He can`t READ O L...........that`s why he just buys books with pictures

O L your picture has been bugging me for some time now...is it Chingford?
Take it your a Chingford driver then eh?

 

[Chilled Phill]

Usually find myself listening to my MP3 player whilst looking out of the window. Don't really read the paper or anything on the train because it's difficult enough for me to read the small, squashed print whilst the train is running over some points.

Tend to get the forward seat as I tend to have a drink on off-peak services and the constant and aggressive stopping of a 323 is enough for me. However, I'm more than comfortable travelling backwards - don't quite understand how going backwards is uncomfortable, tbh. Although it's probably down to personal preference...

 

[delt1c]

Not in order
Look at passing scenery
Watch for passing stosk/units locos
look at eye candy

 

[TDK]

I get in, switch the lights, start the engine, over charge the brake and face forward stopping at the stations and red signals. No music, no laptop, no book nothing but the world going by at high speed. I always go to the same place and do it nearly every day. 200 miles each way.

 

[jon0844]

That doesn't sound very sexy from the way you wrote that, but compared to some of the jobs people do 9-5, with loads of stress and hassle inbetween, I'm sure it's not that bad!

 

[shinkansen09]

I get in, switch the lights, start the engine, over charge the brake and face forward stopping at the stations and red signals. No music, no laptop, no book nothing but the world going by at high speed. I always go to the same place and do it nearly every day. 200 miles each way.

High Speed?:roll:

Speed is relative.......

And yours is relatively slow

 

[digitaltoast]

I sit and check through the ridiculous amount of tickets I now have to buy to get the journey at the same price it was before "simplification".
This represents 3 point to point journeys (done in one day), which used to require just two tickets: