bramling
Veteran Member
And what about if she’s right. And no announcements were made ? She’s a passenger. The trains going nowhere a normal person asks the driver. As they know where they are and presumably could get there. As opposed to fighting her way down the train to find a guard.
The whole thing is a mess. But the railway has to understand why people react as they do. And that they expect to be treated with the same courtesy and decency as they demand (rightly) the other way.
Reality is there's going to be situations when announcements either don't happen, or (as I have a feeling might have been the case here) aren't heard. And knowing what we do about this particular line, let alone on a Saturday night, I can well imagine why the guard might have preferred to adopt a more "rear cab based" approach. Do we *really* think the guard just sat there doing nothing for all the time?
None of this gives someone the right to force their way into a private non-public area, and (by her own admission) give the driver a load of gob. As has been posted elsewhere, she does look like a bit of a madam, and the way she presents herself in the article confirms this.
It doesn't seem clear how long the delay was nor exactly where the train was, as if it was in the platform then I don't see why she didn't just get out and knock on the driver's window.
(Edit: if we're working on the basis that the train is 2W26 2055 Nottingham to Worksop, then the train appears to have been delayed by 11 minutes between Bulwell and Hucknall. It seems more likely it was this delay where the altercation occurred, perhaps whilst the train was waiting at a signal?).
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