Thursday, February 02, 2006

Top Train Delay Excuses

10 Track replacement (hopefully not in front of our train...)
9 Somebody's jumped in front of a train
8 There's been a rockslide (oops)
7 We are behind a slow train
6 There is a signal failure
5 We are waiting for the Train Manager (apparently he waves flags)
4 We are waiting for the train driver (or one to replace the one who didn't bother to turn up... sigh)
3 There are high winds (what, did they feed the train crew beans again?)
2 The front carriage is no longer working (well it was five minutes ago)
1 There's a cow on the line (mooo)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

comedy...

You forgot
"the wrong type of snow fell" and
"the track is under water" which have both been used...

I knew a train manager. he's the one who washes the blood off the train...

T

Anonymous said...

On the Waterloo & City Line they apologised very solemnly once for any delays which were due to leaves on the line. This seemed improbable given that it is an Underground - then we realised that it was April 1.