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Train crew hail taxi, leave passengers stranded
 LONDON - First engineering work stopped their train. Then a replacement bus broke down. But the final blow for six sorry passengers came when rail staff jumped in a taxi and abandoned them outside London in the snow.Wasn't Tony supposed to make the trains run on time? "They said not to worry there will be another bus or a larger taxi along in a minute. Then they scarpered," said actuary Alex Waite, one of the people left stranded at a roundabout near the town of Woking on Tuesday night. After half an hour of shivering in the cold, no-one had arrived so one of the other passengers called a cab to rescue the group and drop them home at a cost of 180 pounds ($354.6), Waite, 37, told Reuters, adding that South West Trains had agreed to refund the amount. The Times quoted the firm as saying the train driver and guard had needed to go as quickly as possible for another job. Sucking chest wound, meet band-aid. Posted by: Free Radical 2007-01-27 |
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