VOYAGERS NOT GOING TO SEA

We all know Voyagers don’t run along the coast to Plymouth when the sea gets rough, but haven’t we got a bit too used to it?

It was a dark and stormy night, back on 14 September 2015, when 36 hapless souls found themselves cast adrift in a Voyager at Dawlish as the sea raged around them. Four hours passed until older trains not so vulnerable to the elements could rescue them. We wouldn’t want to risk going through that again, so quite rightly Voyagers got a note from Mum excusing them from games when the weather is a bit rough.

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