"Thank you for holding"

Marking time while waiting for a phone call to be answered (it never was).

Vauxhall to Finsbury Park

Writing down as much of the announcements as possible - there seem to be more and more of them. Most disturbing is the automatic announcement when the train has been stopped in a tunnel for a certain amount of time: "London Underground apologises for the delay to your journey" - the driver no longer gets to tell the passengers the reason for the delay. The passengers are captives without any connection to the human who's driving the train.

Overground - new train

Three continuous carriages on the Richmond-Stratford line, with a conductor who signals "ready to depart" with the morse code for the number seven: two long, three short. Or is it - two short and then three short (ie, I and S)? You hear it so often you can't remember because you're actually ignoring it.