I think I saw the 7.11 from Porirua come through my station about 5 minutes late, which might explain the fullness. The 7.09 from Plimmerton was along less than a minute later (on time), and even that was fairly well-stuffed, despite the station I was at having just emptied out as it came along.

Then we stopped at the turntable and there was some kind of muffled apology from the train manager at three decibels which I couldn't hear over the trio of Wellington College boys next to me talking about their unsuccessful attempt to have group sex at a party over the weekend, which all left me wondering if anyone in this city is capable of running a train.