14:57 arrive Wigan Tourist Information Centre - try to find postcards, cannot. After looking round whole shop and considering buying 'destination wigan' notebook, assistant offers to help and there are postcards afterall. 4 very similar designs. Decide to buy all 4 plus A-Z and leave shop.
15:11 arrive Wigan North Western train station - 15:25 train to Preston delayed until 15:29. buy ticket.
15:35 train arrives 'Penny the Pendolino' - as trying to board am asked 'is this Preston?'
15:48 arrive platform 4 Preston train station.
16:00 arrive Preston Tourist Information Centre, find postcards easily - there are more and seem cheaper - buy one of each design again. Have to ask for A-Z at counter.
16:08 leave T.I.C. getting dark.
16:19 arrive Preston train station - train to Wigan 16:58 decide to go for coffee.
16:24 buy hot chocolate and sit in cafe at train station to drink, reply to text, think of doing long exposures for length of train journey, make a call, read M.E.N.
16:53 'City of London' arrives platform 6. Walk to end of train - quiet zone, notice unmelted hail at this end of platform. Board train.
17:10 arrive Wigan North Western Station.
17:35 arrive home.
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