Dom’s 32 Hours On Trains In the UK Challenge Report – part 1 – Introduction

Dom 32 hours on the train in the UK

A few months ago I wrote about a challenge I was planning to do. I planned to travel from London Euston to London Paddington via Aberdeen and Penzance. More about it can be found here: https://dominiksymonowicz.com/2018/07/23/doms-32-hours-on-trains-in-the-uk-challenge/

This is a 6 part series report about my Dom 32 hours on the train in UK challenge that I did between 11-13.10’2018. I split this report into the following parts:

Introduction
Before travel
London Euston -> Aberdeen by Caledonian Sleeper
Aberdeen -> Penzance by CrossCountry
Penzance -> London Paddington by Night Rivera/GWR
Thoughts and summary
(Bonus) Delay repay process

Last part was unexpected as I didn’t plan my travel to go that wrong but I want to share my experience with claiming money back.

In a few sentences. How was it?

Well, my plan was to have a relaxed a trip on 3 unique travel trips. The trip however changed into a survival adventure. Despite all of the problems I had during this trip, I had a great time doing this even if things go according to plan B or even C. What went wrong? Let’s me just write for now that none of the 3 trains I took arrived at the destination and my trip was affected by:

Derailment of the train.
No dispatch person on the platform.
Lack of the crew (Driver was on another train).
The driver requires brake by law.
Person hit by the train.
Damage to the overhead electric wires between stations.
Inspection of the track.
The poor condition of the track
Poor weather conditions caused by the Callum storm.
and a few more I didn’t manage to write down.

and good service on all other lines... — and good service on all other lines…

As results of these events, I decided to split my report into a few short blog entries.

All live updates, pictures and videos that from this trip can be also found here:
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/dom32hoursontraininuk/
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dom32HoursOnTrainInUK

In the next part, I will talk about events prior travel and my experience in the Virgin Trains First Class Lounge. https://dominiksymonowicz.com/2018/10/22/doms-32-hours-on-trains-in-the-uk-challenge-part-2-before-travel/

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