QR does not like me...

Last night, on the way home, while sitting quietly at the front of the train I noticed we'd stopped between stations (just past Mitchelton). A short while later we started moving backwards and it was at this stage that we overheard the reason for the stop. Apparently, there was an oncoming train coming round the bend on the same track (the only track at this point in time), that we were on.  There seems to have been a signal failure leading to our train being given the go-ahead while the other train was approaching.
Needless to say, we're all ok and survived the potential incident with only the 6 people closest to the drivers compartment knowing anything about it.

Skip forward to this morning. I get dropped off for the train at Ferny Grove, wait around only a couple of minutes for the next train to get it, and board the train.  Just before it's time to pull out, the driver announces the train is now only going to Mitchelton (some 8km short of the city), and busses will run from there due to an accident (apparently there was a car accident somewhere and a car landed upside down on the tracks) on the line.   I figure it's too soon to call Lea to pick me up as she never has her mobile on anyway, and resign to a long trip into town.

We made it to the next station and then sat there for 40 mins waiting for the signal to proceed. At the next stop (Grovely, two stops short of Mitchelton), it's announced the train isn't going any further and there will be busses from here.   There wasn't.  Usually what happens in these circumstances are dedicated busses waiting at the nearest bus stop for the train to come in. This wasn't the case this time.  So I called Lea for a pickup.  (eventually a bus did arrive, but it wasn't going into town, just Brookside, which would have meant a few bus hops to get to town).

So 2 hours late, I arrive at work.   And now I face the prospect of yet another train trip home this arvo...hopefully uneventful.