Despite being Spring, it was cold on Holme Hill railway station. Jo Bishop wished that she had brought an overcoat. Why had she expected Bill Harker’s train to be on time? She looked up at the digital display, but the message had not changed since she had last looked; nor the time before; nor the time before that: ‘Delayed’. Jo checked her mobile phone to see if the Northern Rail App had any more information; nothing. The same was true of the National Rail Enquiries site.

If I go back to get a coat then the sodding train will arrive, and he will think I have given up on him. If I stay I will be frozen. Bloody crap service!

The lights in the old mill looked warm and inviting. She could always text him to say that she had gone to The Bargeman and fo...

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