I now rejoice when my trains are late, which is often. You might even have seen me muttering ‘Yes!’ and thrusting a clenched fist into the air as my belated so-called express crawls into Oxford or Paddington stations, more than 15 minutes late.
After nearly 50 years of being towed daily up and down this decrepit piece of track, inefficiently and often slowly, it is a major change in my life.
Why is this? It is very simple. A system called ‘Delay Repay’ means that I can apply for compensation every time my Hitachi ‘high-speed’ train is more than a quarter of
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