I was waiting at Princes Risborough train station this afternoon for a fast train to London (one stop only en-route, at High Wycombe).
Out of the Aylesbury branch line there suddenly appears a rubbish train which I know is heading for the WLWA Transfer Station in South Ruislip.
"Uh-Oh" me thinks - my train is going to catch that up.
Sure enough just as we are adjacent to Ruislip Gardens Central Line station my Chiltern Railways "Clubman" service grinds to a halt. It transpires that the waste train has suffered some kind of technical hitch while entering the siding and is blocking the points and the main line in towards Marylebone.
Driver: ".... the rubbish train is blocking our path and we can't get around it, maybe that's why they call it the rubbish train".
Maybe you had to be there, but the whole carriage cracked up. Definitely a comedian in the waiting.
Anyhow, we soon got moving and arrived only 7 minutes late into Marylebone.
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