“The train now standing at platform number two has just dumped a double dollop of doo-dah on the track...” Not one of the usual announcements to be heard at Stourbridge Junction station, I must say, but one that could justifiably be made on a regular basis, judging by the amount of doo-dah (human variety) and associated paper products that greet rail visitors to the town.
And no points for guessing whose job it was to photograph the unusually decorated length of track, after a rail user contacted the Stourbridge News to complain. I haven't shown a picture of it here, if you're that curious, get the paper.
Someone, or possibly a small army, has apparently been ignoring the 'no flushing while stationary' suggestion in the trains' loos, thereby autographing a sizeable stretch of rail track, while also providing a popular topic for debate among waiting commuters.
InterCity. Railtrack. You'll have to make up your own variants on these names (and more,) we all did, but I don't think I'm allowed to print them!
But joking apart, this can't be the only station in the country where this happens, and what on earth are we doing still flinging out our bodily waste products on railway lines up and down the land, without even so much as a gardez lieu?
Does this happen in other countries too?
It certainly gives another meaning to the term 'bullet train!!'
Phil
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