Day 0 - All aboard

I do enjoy traveling on the train, you get to look at stuff and have cans of beer although I have wisely abstained on this occasion in preparation for the commencement of the coast to coast walk.

I am currently not hurting towards Cumbria as the train has decided it needs a rest just outside Darlington: the East Coast train commandant or whatever they are called this week doesn't know what the problem is but she seems certain It's not bad, having travelled on East Coast trains before I am not sure I share her optimism but as I'm on holiday I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.

I have just received a telegram from Sherpa Kerr who is following on a train driven personally by Richard Branson that he is already en-dampened by monsoon like rains before he has departed Das Kapital; an omen perchance?  Only time and shoe leather will tell.