A funny old, long, long day indeed.... we awoke this morning to continue our train trip and Jan was suffering from a nasty migraine! Oh no! What to do? Obviously all we could do was grin and bear it, (or rather, all she could do...), but the prospect of a 9 hour journey in a coach full of fun-loving tourists was a bleak one..
We told our hostess Julie that Jan was feeling unwell, she called the train manager Natalie, and within 10 minutes Jan was given seats where she could lie quietly in privacy - she had an entire 88 seat "Gold leaf" coach to herself!! It was an empty, spare coach, they even put the air conditioning on for her!It didn't stop her from feeling grim, but if you're going to be poorly, better to do it in luxury eh?
The next issue to thwart our trip was a delay, a long hold up caused when a freight train in front of us managed to damage the track whilst entering some sidings, the damage was repaired, but in doing so the engineers caused some other damage.... then a car tried to "jump" a level crossing and cause3d an accident so the police were called.... 3 hours later we moved on.
As a result of this delay the train driver reached his maximum driving time allowance and so we stpped again whilst a relief driver was sent for.... 1 hour later we moved on.
Eventually we pulled into Vancouver 5 HOURS late!!! The journey had taken 14 hours, the delays were a real shame because they spoilt what should have been a wonderful second day...
Now we're in the hotel, (which seems excellent), Jan is feeling better, although already dozing, and tomorrow is ahead!
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