One day, I headed to Shinjuku taking care of some personal business. When I arrived at my nearest station on the Odakyu line from my place, I found that it looked different from usual. Many passengers were standing at the concourse of the station. Anything wrong?
When I looked up at the platform display, I finally understood the reason. Please look at the top photo. The train is very delayed. It’s already past 11 o’clock, but the next train leaving 9.43 has not arrived at the station yet. To make matters worse, the destination of the next train is not Shinjuku, but Kyodo… just next to my station. Due to a signal system malfunction, the train service from Kyodo station to Shinjuku terminal has been suspended.
Please, don’t worry. Railfans are optimistic. I’m also one of them. I switched my mind, and took action. First, I enjoyed taking photo of this platform display, which was showing very rare destination “Kyodo”. I then moved to Kyodo station, and looked for rare sceneries. Please look at the photo below. You may feel that it's an ordinary scene. The EMU Odakyu 3000 series is just traveling on the track, but it's a treasure to me. This train is changing from the express line (in the left) to the local line (in the right). I seldom see such a scene at this station.
I couldn't achieve my personal business as planned that day, but I was satisfied as I came across the rare scenes.
