Fear and loneliness riding Britain's railways

[John Ashworth]

What I learnt about fear and loneliness after a day riding Britain's railways

Ididn’t know what to expect when I set off by train to Yorkshire at the weekend. I was well prepared, with masks and hand sanitiser, but I wasn’t prepared for the empty trains, deserted stations and, by the time I reached York, overwhelming sense that I’d walked onto the set of a post-apocalyptic drama in which most of my fellow humans had, well... disappeared...