Today was a different day as I was travelling on a train. I say I am a train virgin although this is not quite true. I can only remember 3 train journey’s. Once when I was very young to Scotland, the second about 4 years ago from Hamilton to Glasgow and the thirds today.

The journey was from Leyland to Manchester. The journey to Manchester was very civilised. We managed to get a seat and it was relaxing not to be at the wheel for a change. However the journey back was a bit stressed. There was not a seat on the train and we had to stand for three quarters of the way home. This got me thinking about public transport.

People are always saying that we should all be using public transport. I have to say that I support this. However I have to say that both trains were very full and especially the one home. The return journey train was only 3 carriages long, and for a peak time train I thought that wasn’t very many. For people like me who do not travel on trains that much this puts me off a bit in that I can’t get a seat.

That said using the train is not as bad as I perhaps thought, which subconsciously is perhaps the reason why I haven’t used then all that much.