I should have started back to work yesterday but was still lurgy ridden enough to have a 4th day in bed which, it transpires, was quite fortunate.
I commute between Irvine and Glasgow and there had been Network Rail engineering work planned between the 25th December & 6th January which meant that it would have been train to Paisley then bus into Glasgow which would have added anything up to 45 minutes to my commute each way. I therefore took a couple of days extra annual leave so as not to have to undergo the stress of my return journey taking anything up to an extra hour to an hour and a half added to my daily travel time.
Of course, probably thanks to the over-run at Rugby and reallocation of staff, the engineering was extended and chaos reigned for all of yesterday and part of today. Hopefully all will have been sorted by home time tonight.
The bigger issue, of course, is Network Rail's inability to properly allocate human resources and then their headless chicken panic when one domino fell and started to topple all the others. They have, rightly, been all over the media apologising to passengers but when will we see heads rolling amongst management as hey surely deserved so to do?
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