Met a whole bunch of characters on the way home
I was on the way back from the conference in London today, when the announcement came that the train was being diverted. If we wanted to carry on to Birmingham New St, we could stay on, and have an extra 90 minute journey that took us through Stafford, or we could get off at Nuneaton, get a train to Coventry and get to Birmingham International from there.
We chose the latter… which turned out to be a mistake. The train to Coventry had already been cancelled, and there was no sign of any more trains to come. So Tim, Nick and I found ourself in a taxi van with three strangers heading towards Birmingham.
Interesting bunch. One man was a logisitics consultant for the newspaper industry, the woman worked in e-commerce solutions for businesses, and the other guy was a voiceover for cartoons and radio – a guy called Marc Silk.
