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As for the 387s, yeah, the ride quality on electrostars is grim, but at least they aren’t 755s: ride them once, see a chiropractor for life.

So no possibility of having a discussion about our lord and saviour, rear first, then?

I guess they aren’t going to St Pancras

It's much less well known on the ECML Thameslink services, so there's pretty much always space IME.

Indeed. The only way to travel.

If I can, I avoid the CBG-KGX services completely now. I always try to catch the CBG-BTN services, even if I'm just going to London. The Great Northern trains are cattle trucks. The 700/1s have a better ride, go to central London, and you can always get plenty of space.

The Cambridge to London train which is regarded as the slow if you live in Cambridge is regarded as the fast if you live in Welwyn.

Also not many trees near it IIRC.

61 knot gusts forecast here in East Anglia. That’s very nearly hurricane force.

storm force 10 gusting violent storm force 11. Coastal communities are used to this but it’s going to be country wide. It will bring trees down and damage property. I took all the sails off my boat today. This is not an overreaction.

Bet they don't.

Ah, they’re going through the quarry like the other CBG services? Yeah, I can see how that might irritate. I wouldn’t mind a slightly slower service that still called at Redhill etc if it’s saving me the London Bridge change. I’m comfy in rear first with my thermos and laptop.

Thank goodness for that. I do BTN-CBG a lot on Sundays and having to take a Bedford service, overtake the Cambridge service in the quarry, then pick it up at London Bridge is irritating.

They have the rolling stock. They just can't be arsed.

Like soldiers breaking step to march over a bridge? Interesting! Thanks.

Indeed. They’re like different, and althogether noisier and more gutless trains.

The 700s are great on OHLE. They feel much weedier on DC when they're doing their flying saucer noise.

Exactly the same thing it does in a public house.

That’s really not as obvious as you think it is. I’ve had a bloke follow me the length of a train before. Had to arrange to be met by friends when the train pulled in. It’s a lot more common than you might thing. Psychotherapy, as per your suggestion, won’t help because this isn’t irrational...

We don’t complain at the time because we learn, very quickly, that men who harass us often take public rejection or any kind of resistance very badly indeed. We are frightened that you’re going to hurt us. If you think my view is unusual amongst women, you’re going to completely lose it when...