title Train Fails, and Pizza Pub, Manningtree and Southwark - 12th August 2014 intro There's a trip to The Libertine pub on Great Suffolk Street in Southwark for a couple of lunchtime pizza-pub trips. Then the train on the way back home is helpfully terminated at Manningtree, thanks to a broken-down freight train at Ipswich. imgc4227 The derelict R Sullivan on Southwark Bridge Road imgc4228 SwiftKey heads off to Pizza Pub imgc4229 Walking through the entrance to Mint Street Park imgc4230 Ordering pizza and drinks in the Libertine imgc4231 Post-pizza chat in the Libertine imgc4232 Walking back on Toulmin Street imgc4233 SwiftKey on Weller Street imgc4234 Southwark Bridge Road, with the office on the right imgc4236 In Mint Street Park, on another trip back imgc4237 The raised grass steps of Mint Street Park imgc4238 Platform 10 at Liverpool Street station imgc4240 The scourge of commuters: reserved seating imgc4241 The train is terminated at Manningtree imgc4242 Hundreds of passengers mill around imgc4243 There's a faint rainbow above the overhead wires imgc4244 Another view of the rainbow over Manningtree imgc4245 More hanging around at Manningtree Station imgc4246 Class 90 90015 Colchester Castle heads up the line imgc4247 Another cyclist waits for something to happen imgc4248 The train has buggered off back to Colchester imgc4249 A dead bird on the line adds to the sense of doom imgc4250 Stowmarket signal box, as the train finally gets going