Rail business awards

20/02/2009 by admin.

Just back from the Rail Business Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane. 1200 of Britain’s finest and very impressive too.

Heidi Mottram, the much-honoured managing director of Northern Rail won business manager of the year, and very well deserved it was too, I thought…..until I got back to Manchester.

Now I know first class travel on Virgin can hardly be described as arduous, but I was a bit tired when I finally crossed the city to Victoria Station. The next train on the Calder Valley line was going to Selby, like they always used to but since Dedember, this one has not stopped at Littleborough - where I was bound.

Now, watching a train pulling out and knowing it ios going to pass the end of your garden but isn’t going to stop is frustrating enough but Heidi had finished insulting the good people of my home town.

The train I was finally able to catch was some ghastly red thing shipped over from Yorkshire. It had plenty of seats but only because they were fixed so close together that your knees are round your ears.

Londoners are always whingeing about their commuting conditions. They don’t know they’re born!

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