Long tiring train journey

(This was written on the train yesterday night, I didn't manage to upload while on the train.....)

Sitting on the train right now, going from Glasgow to London. Been on the train for about 4 hours now. We've just left Crewe and until then it had been quite a quiet journey. Lots of people seemed to have got on at Crewe. It got quite hectic in our coach with many people trying to find their reserved seat or trying to find a free unreserved seat. One guy even tried to say that we were occupying his seat contrary to what had been stated CLEARLY on the overhead that it had been reserved between Glasgow to London. I had to politely tell him that we had these seats reserved for us and we had been sitting here since Glasgow. I was going to show him our tickets but he seemed to get the point and went off. But I must say that the train system seems to be a bit of a botch lately. We been on a few trips between London and Glasgow the past month and twice we have had to stand due to there being no seats available. It was like being on the London Underground with many people having to stand. I don't understand why the issue more tickets than available on the train. These journeys are long and people should have to stand for 7 hours. We made a point this time to reserve our return journey seats to avoid having to stand, something I wish we had done for our previous trips as it caused us much back pain for a few days.

There was one journey where the whole system went down and they were unable to print out the reservation details so it meant that all reservations for the journey were cancelled and people could sit anywhere. This caused much havoc and arguments where people would be saying "you're in my seat" then the person seated would have to explain that they were not as nobody had reserved seats due to an error. It was like playing musical chairs. People shifting from one seat to another, trying to grab the unavailable seat. It was hectic. We were one of these people being shifted about. "Never again!" we said. Never again would take the train. But yet here we are. We took it as we still had an open return ticket so why waste it. But we made sure to reserved seats to avoid the frustrations. This is what i recommend to anyone wanting to travel by train. Maybe most people our there do and we were the silly ones who didn't but I had previous experiences where I could just get on the train and find a seat no problem. But times have changed and so we must change to fit these changes (does any of this even make sense right now???!!!!!)

Anyway, I've ranted on enough. It's now 8:05pm, we've just arrived in Stafford. We've another 3 hours to go. Might get some shut eye for a bit.....