Leaves on the Line

When I got in from work this evening I was too tired and distracted to take much notice of Robbie rabbiting on about his journey to work this morning. As I tuned back in to what he was saying I thought he said there were 'extreme red head conditions' and I imagined the station being overrun with people who had ginger hair! He'd actually said there were 'extreme rail head conditions' that is just a posh way of saying leaves on the line! Network Rail were to blame because the rail head treatment train had not been able to run across the section - they were blaming bad weather, but we haven't had any bad weather yet! Personally I think the red heads would have been a more exciting reason for being late for work.