train of death
I got onto one of those local service trains which look like they're made of cardboard and spit. There were no seats left so I stood up. Being rush hour the train carried on filling up until I was forced (I'm quite small and weedy) to stand in the footwell next to the door. People just kept crowding on until I was pressed up against the doors. These weren't good solid doors either - they were those folding doors like you get on buses. Just as I decided this was too dangerous and was going to get off, the train started moving. As it picked up speed I've never felt such terror. Every time it went round a bend I'd feel the doors bending as I was pressed against them and hear the wind rushing through the gaps where the doors met. There was absolutely nothing I could do. I had nothing to hold on to other than other passengers and all I could do was pray that the doors would hold and not let me get flung out to certain death on the tracks. It was only a 20 minute journey but it was 20 minutes of sheerest panting terror for me.

Also, for some reason every time I get a train to London it's delayed because someone has committed suicide at Grantham and the lines are closed. OK. Not every time, but twice now and I think that's weird enough. Why always Grantham I wonder?
(Mary Mandolin still had it on, Thu 29 May 2008, 18:06, 4 replies)

it's big mag's fault
grantham...birth place of thatcher...enough said.

personally i gob out the window everytime i go through...
(prostheses, Thu 29 May 2008, 18:14, closed)

gob
So next time I go to London I can expect to be delayed at Grantham due to "gob on the line"?
(Mary Mandolin still had it on, Thu 29 May 2008, 18:30, closed)

thar be mentals hospitals nearby
they sometimes go for walk and never come back, true story.
(Backwards face yag, Thu 29 May 2008, 18:43, closed)

My parents live in Grantham
They're the best thing about it, of course, but for a number of years, Grantham had the highest instance ot train-related suicides in the country. Pretty impressive for a town of it's size (around 50,000 people)

It also has the highest rising drug problem of anywhere in the country

And the second highest teenage pregancy rate in the country.

It's a small-minded, scary little town and the suicides that stop the trains rushing through it are particularly selfish in this case.
(Jugular, Fri 30 May 2008, 12:21, closed)