FURIOUS Davinia Taylor launched into a rant at train staff after being denied boarding – branding them ‘f**king idiots’.
The former Hollyoaks actress was trying to travel from London Euston to Birmingham and had to sprint through the station with heavy luggage.
However, Davinia, 48, arrived three minutes before the train’s departure, and so staff on the platform refused to let her board and told her she needed to buy a new ticket.
In the video she raged: “I f***ing hate little s***houses like this.”
She claimed: “I was there, the train was there, I was three minutes, I sprinted through Euston. I said, ‘Look I’m a woman on her own. I bought the ticket’.
“They’d not even locked the gates. He said, ‘Sorry love, you can’t go, you’ve gotta be longer before’.
She then claimed she’d asked the man to imagine it was his mum, before impersonating him nonchalantly shrugging his shoulders.
Davinia, who these days runs a successful wellness company called Willpowders, continued furiously: “That’s the f***ing idiots you’re dealing with. Empty it was, empty.
“So now I’ve gotta buy a new ticket. I’ve been working my a**e off, and these little nasty, nasty little f***ing clipboards.
“I said, ‘Do you know what? You’re not even human’. The platform was empty. Empty, and they both sniggered, sniggered, what the f*** is wrong with people, when they’ve got a f***ing uniform on.
“I hope their mothers are embarrassed. Horrible, horrible brats.”
Davinia, who played Jude Cunningham in Hollyoaks from 1996 to 1998, added text to the video which read: “Clipboard computer says no, jobsworth, not my problem. K***heads.
“Why are SOME of these people in the travel business set on default to be unhelpful?
“Btw I travel Avanti loads and have met absolute angels… but these two. Yuk.”
Many of Davinia’s followers sympathised with the star, but one questioned: “3 minutes what? Late? Late is late, the entitlement and support for it in the comments is insaaane.”
Davinia replied, claiming: “Train left at 16:29 I was at the top of the train at 16:25 with my QR code in the phone by the time he said that there’s nothing he can do get the next one to Birmingham it was 16:26.
“I was asking him to radio the lady who was talking to the conductor next to the train and he said no can’t do that. Then after another min he said I have to be there three min before. And sniggered.”
An Avanti West Coast spokesperson said: “We are aware of the customer’s experience travelling yesterday and we are currently looking into the circumstances of what happened.”
