When the police are needed to clear passengers from a dangerously overcrowded train,you know Britain’s railways have reached a new lowI have seen the face of the satan. I prised open his slippery mandible, and peered into his gaping maw as the acrid talons of his breath tore absent at my flesh and hair until I was left quivering against the wind, or having glimpsed cruelty in its rawest form.
Which is to say that I got a powerful Western train from Paddington to Cornwall on a bank holiday once. But,you know, that’s basically the same thing.
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Source: theguardian.com