Taxi To Inverness
Apparently fine train companies if services don't run to time. That may explain why I spent a miserable two hours squeezed into middle back seat of a taxi as it ferried four of us would-be train passengers the 110 miles from Perth to Inverness.
The slow-running train from Glasgow had arrived at Perth ten minutes after it was meant to connect with the service to Inverness, but seemingly its cheaper for the company to send passengers north by taxi than incur the financial penalty that would have been imposed on them if they had delayed the departure of the connecting service.
I sat semi-folded in the back seat beside a young Mum who was trying to get home to Elgin in time to see her children before bedtime. On my left was a businessman who just plugged himself into his iPod and said nothing for the entire journey. The front seat passsenger immediately found that he and the taxi driver shared a common interest in railway engineering and motorbike engines.
They managed to talk about these things non-stop for two hours. That must be some kind of a record.
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