Scarborough to Hull
Carpe diem; as an Oscar-chasing Robin Williams might whisper over your shoulder. Life is short. I’m fast approaching thirty and have thus far achieved none of the life goals I’d […]
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Retford to York
Retford station is where dreams go to die. To wait there is to step into the Narnia of the rail network, you will wait hours, maybe days for a connecting […]
Stansted Airport to Peterborough
In a coffee shop, by the Arrivals gate at Stansted Airport, I sit and watch as a succession of holiday-makers stumble back into the real world. They emerge from the […]
Sheffield Interchange to Birmingham Coach Station
Sheffield; the last of the morning commuters traipse up the hill, reflected in the water and steel of the cascade that lines Sheaf Square. On the fringes of this reworked […]
Doncaster to Hessle
Up on the platform a member of staff is wrestling with timetable sheets in the breeze. With one strong gust he gets a face full of Cleethorpes to Manchester Airport […]
Scarborough to London St. Pancras
Train tickets are over-priced. We know this because every so often commuters on leafy suburban platforms appear on television news to tell us so. Telling us how hard it is […]
Scarborough to York
On appearances Scarborough sunshine could easily be mistaken for a carbon monoxide leak; folk sunbathe where they fall – on roofs, in car-parks, beside benches. Wherever the sun wins out […]
Doncaster to York
It’s raining. Again. It has been raining constantly for the best part of a fortnight, so long that I have long begun to suspect I am inadvertently starring in a […]
Manchester Piccadilly to Cardiff Central
“It’s not like it was in my day,” pensioners are fond of saying, which is lucky for them, because if it were, they would be dead. Folk, you see, are […]
Doncaster to Manchester Piccadilly
I board this train at five to nine, just as rush hour is slowing to its victory lap. The go-getters, the achievers, the business-minded folk of this world, or to […]
