Why are Virgin trains called Virgin?
'cos the don't give a fuck!

Stole that from a friend of mine so apologies to the wag who originally coined it if they read the forum.

A good few years ago I was staying at a mates and catching the end of the Edinburgh festival. A pleasant but tired journey from chester to edinburgh (well, pleaseant for me, I'd just met my ex the night before and she gave me a lift home to get my stuff and to the station. Bonus!) and then a great night out at the festival close was a good laugh.

This was tarnished by the journey on the way back, I was well recovered the next day from my hangover and was waiting at Haymarket station to head back home, and this is when disaster struck. The virgin train turns up and it's absolutely packed out. It could have been going to Auschwitz and no one would have been surprised. It was that full and they were still trying to jam people in there! Bastards, what made it worse was people had booked seats and couldn't even get on the train, never mind to their seat!

As a result a few of us were now stranded so we had a chat with the guy at the platform, who, after some persuasion started to make calls and got us shipped off to Waverley station in Edinburgh.

When we got there the nice people sorted out trains for us (we had to get to manc and sort ourselves form there) and they even gave us a meal voucher (for £5, what's that going to cover in a station food shop? A fucking donut?)

I'd decided to get the 2 o'clock train, it was now getting on for about 5 or 6 and I was still stuck in Edinburgh...

Anyways we fianlly get a train, and a first class coach (but no first class service despite the inconvenience virgin had put us through).

Fortunately one of my fellow refugees had brought a pack of beer and were extremely generous with offering it out so we all got nicely drunk. It was like something out a war film, all we needed was someone with a harmonica or some type of folksy instrument!

I've had numerous other train incidents which I shall try to remember (I only passed my test at 26 - left it far too late!)
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Fri 30 May 2008, 8:24, 4 replies)

You confuse me
Waverley IS the main station in Edinburgh..
(loutre I've said too much, been too unkind, Fri 30 May 2008, 9:46, closed)

Thanks
Had to do a double check (was my only time there and was a number of years ago!

Edited for accuracy now! :)
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Fri 30 May 2008, 10:04, closed)

ah, makes sense now ;)
And yes, Virgin are cunts. Although, to be fair, it's not strictly their fault there were too many people on the train. I could be wrong here but I don't think they actually have any way of limiting how many tickets they sell for each train if you don't reserve seats.
(loutre I've said too much, been too unkind, Fri 30 May 2008, 10:31, closed)

Yeah
it was more the fact that they hadn;tr planned on the massive influx of people I think...
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Fri 30 May 2008, 10:37, closed)