First Hull Trains

Every now and then, I book a ticket on Hull Trains to London. Why? Simply because it is cheap or it is at the time that I need it to be. That is all. Otherwise, I prefer to take East Coast. And when I stand at the platform in Grantham, I go out to where I usually stand for an East Coast train because I forget that a Hull Train is half the length of an East Coast train. Usually I’m not the only dodo bird running back to where the train actually stops. In fact, Work BFF was telling me about how she missed her train in London because she decided to use the new walkway between the new part of Kings Cross on the mezzanine level to get to the platforms and did not see her train. She went back to the departure boards to make sure she was at the right platform, but again because the Hull Train is half the size of an East Coast train and she forgot that one fact, she didn’t actually see the train further up and missed it. These services always seem so crowded, makes you wonder why they can’t add a few cars to the service, maybe it wouldn’t feel so claustrophobic. The other thing… it feels dirty to me. No not naughty dirty, but not been cleaned in awhile dirty. Hard to tell when it is so crowded though. It is a cheaper service and usually the service goes straight from Grantham to London Kings Cross, no stops at Peterborough or Stevenage, but it usually takes a little longer than East Coast’s hour and ten minutes.