David’s memories have added a new word to my emerging Mobility Memory Vocabulary. But I don't know the word....

"Breathe out". "Settle-in". Really...what is the word? It is a word which describes the contentment you feel that you’re in place, in your seat, and the journey is starting. It should particularly relate to a transport trip. Contentment doesn't cut it somehow.

Music Credit: Life of a Wandering Wizard by Serge Quadrado

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Two questions: When were you last on a bus? What is your favourite transport app?

The conversation always takes many directions.

David and I are partners in Fuse Mobility where we do transport and transport technology consulting

But that’s NOT IMPORTANT: this was a chat about David and his transport life. His mobility stories. His choices.

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Memories of mobility. Happy and scary – not in the middle.

Being stuck in the old slam door train carriage with a mad woman. Nearly being marooned at the cinema in Kilmarnock (The Incredible Journey) because all the bus fare had been spent on sweets.

Vivid fear of being marooned or stuck – out of control.

And the golden freedom of traveling by yourself when you are small.

Some of the small detail and imagery is there forever: the smell of the upholstered seats in the train carriage; the time (0819 – not 0820) of the morning train from Stewarton to Glasgow in the 1960s (for those interested, it is now 0805 or 0832).

I was talking to a lovely woman on the train on Monday and she also recalled these trains very vividly: “Coffin Carriages” she called them.

What is it about the old slam door railway compartments that make them so emotive?

• Emotive Mobility
• Mobility Memories
• Mobility Moments

Find out more on the Mobility Stories blog page

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Music Credit: Life of a Wandering Wizard by Serge Quadrado

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