Got the 6.15 this morning just after the girls from the ET got there with a stack of copies of 'City Lite' and free bottles of water.

Have to say? Not impressed. Girls cute, water drinkable, paper... eminently disposable. Almost NO local news, and (the thing which I'd really have found it useful for) no local what's on guide at all.

2/10. Could do better.

Last night?

I was running late and didn't get to Kings Cross until 17.55. I walked through the side entrance near platform 1 and the first thing I noticed was a blank departure board. A quick glance down the top of the platforms and the throng seemed to suggest there were major problems, but I'm not so sure now.

Starting at platform 1, I did my usual walk down the platforms to look at the trains and departure boards and the top of each platform to see if I could guage which train was most likely to get out first. There weren't any announcments, nothing on the boards and no activity on any trains, so gleamed nothing. I walked back towatrd P1 and no sooner had I got level with platform 4, they announced the 18.03 GNER to Leeds was boarding on platform 7.

The usual surge unsued and I was towards the back of it already. Consequently, I decided to use one of my upgrade vouchers to guarantee a seat. It did cross my mind to buy a burger just to piss Moaning Toff off but didn't think I had time so boarded at coach M.

Whilst the 18.03 left a little late and even ran slow for a while, we arrived into Tinsel Town round about 7ish. But what happened? werre there delays last night? Was it mearly that the departure boards weren't working? I've really no idea.

As the 06.15 pulled into KX this morning, I awoke from my Ipod slumber and noticed that the engine on the opposite platform was named "Tam the Gun". Who or what is that named after I thought. A quick google soon enlightened me. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4446374.stm

What a good idea to name engines after caracters from along the route, to me it seems a much better idea than calling an engine "City of Peterborough". Who knows, in years to come our ancestors may be travelling on a train called "Fentyke" D