07 Nov 2015, 12:20 pm
#352
(07 Nov 2015, 10:10 am)Charles41 This weather...I was hoping to go on a spotting trip to County Durham today. No chance of that now.
Charles
I'll normally still go out in weather like today (although I ain't today as I was out yesterday and may be out tomorrow) although when I do go out in weather like this I don't take much in the way of photos and normally tend to just hop from bus to bus.
If you think a journey in the rain today is bad, be thankful this didn't happen to you: one morning when I was trying to get to college it was absolutely lashing it down and the journey as far as Ferryhill was normal enough but once we got out of Ferryhill we got stuck in horrendous traffic and we were barely moving and I was hoping it would stop once we got to Thinford Roundabout but it kept on going and then we got to the roundabout where the Coach and Horses pub is and the road was closed so we had to turn back round and head back towards Thinford Roundabout and it was around 09:10 by the time we got back to Thinford and all the passengers were sick so some decided that they didn't want to carry on anymore as the bus had to head towards Bowburn to reach Durham and after spending an hour and a half being crammed in on one of them X---GGO Darts which I "loved" so much and it would probably take at least another hour to get to college so at Thinford I bailed. I decided to walk to Ferryhill Market Place to increase my chances of getting home and annoyingly walked past the stop before Ferryhill Market Place and a Darlington bound 7 flew past me. So I got to Ferryhill Market Place and I saw the 35 heading to Bishop Auckland which interworked with service 5/5A so because it would be goodness knows how long until the next 7 would appear I opted for this lengthy detour home, I thought I was going to get kicked off in Bishop Auckland due to a damaged exterior panel but thankfully it continued in service to Darlington and I was able to get home at around 11am having left the house at around 07:25.
