Stand-up performer James Nokise said he was among 'hundreds' of passengers ordered off an Avanti West Coast train at Preston station in Lancashire on Monday night.
A rail passenger has described his "insane" 11-hour journey to Edinburgh which ended at 3.30am after a "ridiculous" taxi ride.
In a series of posts viewed more than 2.6 million times on social media platform X – formerly known as Twitter – he wrote: “At 4.40pm I jumped on a train from London to Edinburgh. It was comfy, it was quiet. In hindsight, too good to last.” But the Glasgow-bound train was full so left Preston as Nokise and his fellow passengers arrived. They were told to wait for the next train, which ended up being cancelled.
At 10.30pm he was in the final group of travellers to get in a cab, describing the situation as “ridiculous”. The comic wrote that shortly after midnight “our cabbie decided to change lanes without indicating and almost crashed into a mini-van overtaking him”. The A72 is “a real motion-sickness nightmare of a road” which is “narrow, dark, full of turns and occasionally just dips,” he wrote.
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