Interesting Facts

According to National Rail statistics, nearly 33.3% of Britain's trains are late. (Virgin trains were the worst culprits, with only 47% of their trains on the West Coast Mainline arriving on time.  The best performers were Chiltern Railways with 87.5 per cent and London Overground with 86.2 per cent.)

According to physicists at the University of Leicester a scaled up version of a spider's web, as spun by comic book hero Spiderman would be strong enough to stop a moving train. (They calculated that webbing with the following properties could stop a moving train:- The force Spider-Man's webs would have exerted on the train would be 300,000 newtons The stiffness of the web would be 3.12 gigapascals The toughness of the web would be roughly 500 megajoules per cubic metre. The title of their paper? 'Doing Whatever a Spider Can'.)

A 4ft tall, papier-mache haggis sparked a security alert in Scotland. (The haggis, sporting a pink kilt and ‘honest sonsie face’, and bearing a tag which read "this haggis needs friends", was discovered by shocked passengers in a luggage compartment on the train before the alarm was raised. It is thought the haggis was part of an art project, and had been placed on the train as a joke to mark the annual Scottish celebration Burns Night. ) Source

London's Waterloo station carries four times as many passengers as Heathrow each day. (My my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender Oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way The history book on the shelf Is always repeating itself Waterloo - I was defeated, you won the war Waterloo - promise to love you for ever more Waterloo - couldn’t escape if I wanted to Waterloo - knowing my fate is to be with you Waterloo - finally facing my waterloo My my, I tried to hold you back but you were stronger Oh yeah, and now it seems my only chance is giving up the fight And how could I ever refuse I feel like I win when I lose Waterloo - I was defeated, you won the war Waterloo - promise to love you for ever more Waterloo - couldn’t escape if I wanted to Waterloo - knowing my fate is to be with you And how could I ever refuse I feel like I win when I lose Waterloo - I was defeated, you won the war Waterloo - promise to love you for ever more Waterloo - co...