The Great Escape

At around 5pm on Friday, a problem with overhead power cables brought a First Capital Connect train from Kings Cross to Cambridge came to a grinding halt just 500 yards from Foxton station.   There would have been nothing unusual or news worthy about this except for two things:

1. Fifteen of the passengers got fed up with waiting and forced open the doors, got down to the track and walked to Foxton station where they made their own way home
2. The remaining passengers were 'locked in by a rail official and threatened with being arrested if they so much as tried to leave" (Daily Telegraph).  It was after 9pm before some of these passengers eventually made it into Cambridge

So what would you do?  Would you wait patiently on the train or would you too make a break for freedom?  

I'm unsure what my reaction would have been, but I do have a lot of sympathy for the 'Foxton Fifteen'.  Late on a Friday afternoon, it's getting dark and they wanted to get home.  The news reports don't tell us what information they had got from the train crew but if it was "not a lot" then I'm not surprised that a few people decided to take things into their own hands.



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