few travellers about, you can see| few travellers about, you can see them behind me with their suitcases, but i wouldn t say it is swarming with people, perhaps people have taken on that advice that has been doing the rounds to travel as early as possible, if indeed you need to travel at all on a day like christmas eve, when there are rail strikes as well. and we are expecting services to wrap up earlier than usual today, the last train from here i am told, the last passenger train, train from here i am told, the last passengertrain, is train from here i am told, the last passenger train, is to reading at 3.56 and a lot of people use this station to get towards the west of the uk, we met people on their way to devon, to swansea, to the cotswolds, some tourists told me that they did not realise there was industrial action happening so they felt quite lucky that they happened to arrive on time for their train, because they said very easily, it could have gone the other way. and more peop