Well this journey went as expected.... The girls were finished by 10.10pm so we went and stood on the District Line Westbound platform for 15 minutes or so (what fun) but no trains to Ealing Broadway at all.. so after that we decided there was no chance of getting the 22.45 from Paddington (22.54 from Ealing Broadway) so headed into Paddington..
When we got there, there was a 23.00 departure, first stop Slough.. So we got on that and, to be honest, the train wasn't overcrowded, however it soon became clear we were going to sit on the slow line and follow the train into Slough that we had been hoping to overtake and then get on, the same train that we would have got from Ealing Broadway had there been one single District Line train heading in that direction...We did however swap to the fast line just before Slough to add insult to injury
So we arrived at Slough about 23.25, with a half hour wait for anything going west and stopping at Maidenhead so, due to having three tired 15 year olds with us, we decided we had to stump up the cost of a taxi home...It wasn't cheap...
Thanks must go to the District line for running no trains to Ealing broadway and also whoever is responsible for the lack of trains..
The winners must be, yet again, Slough taxi drivers
