Train Crew hail taxi - leaving passengers stranded

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LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters Life!) - 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.

 

" 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.