Sat quietly up the front with all the windows open until about 23:10 when the guard came storming up the platform shouting about how he wasnt taking the train, because they had smashed up first class already.
The driver sighed while the guard called the police.
The kids then ran up and down the train and platform, throwing light bulbs at each other, then the police turned up
16 kids all lined up along the edge of platform 4 being read the riot act by 6 coppers, including a sergant
After a search of the train and station for the Afro Caribean youth that everybody reported as the culprit, the train was examined by the police, and the guard gave a statement about what he'd seen {same as the rest of us, first class window slid down, light bulbs were ejected from it at high speed, and had smashed against another unit}.
At 23:35, the damaged coach was locked out, and the coach numbers written down, before the guard then agreed to take the train.
We departed Portsmouth harbour, 18'late at 23:38, and by the time we got to Hilsea, an off duty guard came up, {just before an afro caribean youth went running down the train}, saying the had just looked out the other driving trailor, because an afro caribean had smashed it up.
I convinced the guard to take the train on to Cosham, saying that he'd get a more rapid police response because the police station was 5 minutes walk away {i kept quiet about the fact that i also wanted to get off their
}I've never known a guard call the police twice to the same service, and i've never heard reports of an afro caribean youth swinging from the fluescent lighting tubes either!
