My daughter has just been telling today's horror story as she was stuck on the Rochdale to Manchester train for over 3 hours due to a broken down train in front of hers followed by frozen points problems. A journey of usually 20 minutes in the end got her as far as Mills Hill where she baled out and came home.

Aparently tempers were very frayed with one lady threatening to jump off when the driver opened the door to get at a phone on the line. She didn't know if she was claustrophobic, but she was a smoker so that might have contributed as well. She thought in the end they were half an hour away from cannibalism