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Southeastern train disruption (franchise to be taken over by Govt p191)

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  • As long as the Orpington line is running plus/minus 2 minutes all is great in this world
  • As long as the Orpington line is running plus/minus 2 minutes all is great in this world

    no problems thus far (between Grove Park and Elmstead Woods)
  • JohnBoyUK said:

    As long as the Orpington line is running plus/minus 2 minutes all is great in this world

    no problems thus far (between Grove Park and Elmstead Woods)
    I go fast from London bridge and I'm on very wet January so I don't care what the happens to the mortals on the cattle lines.

  • Some knob cheese shouting Allah Akbar this morning at Slade Green has caused 2 hours of wide spread carnage on all lines. It’s taken me 50 minutes to get from Bexleyheath to Blackheath, fuck knows how long it’ll take to get through Lewisham.
  • Yep, half hour late getting into Cannon St this morning due to "a disruptive passenger".
  • edited January 2019
    Warm-up shit show today leading up to a full on farce across the rest of the week. But don't worry about paying a fortune and still being late to work everyday, at least you can send a message to a loved one on one of their useless platform displays:

  • edited January 2019
    It's pathetic. Just like Katrien waffling on about our amazing new website while we careered down the leagues in front of our lowest crowds for 3 decades.

    Don't f#*king bother with the frilly stuff until you can actually run some trains on time you idiots.

    Obviously some abusive Valentines messages will be forthcoming from me over the next couple of weeks.
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  • I'm not going to be popular saying this...

    As work pay for my travel I tend to stick with the High-speed one to st Pancras. Now that thing tends to run on time at the expense of everything else.

    Unlike the Charing cross one due before my one, and the one after. Both properly delayed this morning, the poor fuckers waiting for those ones can't even make up the difference by getting the st Pancras one and farting about with the tube without paying more.

    The Thameslink connection I had to get was 15 minutes late though

    They are well connected those trains but they stop every 2 minutes, the one that goes from Luton airport to Brighton. Imagine falling asleep on that bastard and waking up in Luton, Dover priory is one thing but Luton!
  • Nothing moving on the bexleyheath line. It’s beyond a joke now, I would t be surprised if some people are in the right shit with work for constant lateness.
  • Can’t wait for the snow!
  • So the problem was fixed over 30 minutes ago and apart from Victoria trains running, there’s still no sign of any Charing Cross or Cannon Street services for at least another 45 minutes. What happens to these trains? Do they just disappear into thin air then reappear when they fancy it. Network Rails signals are a disgrace but SE contingency plan for situations like this are a piss take.
  • Got on the 0727 Kidbrooke to Cannon Street. Arrived in work at Charing Cross at 0945! WTF. Over two hours to travel the equivalent of 6 stations. You can get to Manchester or Liverpool in that time. But not to Charing Cross on SouthEastern it seems.

    Great advice from the station staff at Kidbrooke. There are no trains until 10am, passengers are advised to get the 178 bus to Lewisham. So the train emptied and there was around 200 at the bus stop waiting for the one bus to arrive. Lee High Road in rush hour...good luck with that. Knowing the local routes, I got the 386 to Greenwich and the 188 to North Greenwich, only to find North Greenwich rammo, due to the DLR having stopped running. Transport system meltdown

    Looking forward to the emergency timetables when a snowflake might fall. It will be an improvement on the normal timetables. Third World transport system.
  • Tutt-Tutt said:


    Looking forward to the emergency timetables when a snowflake might fall. It will be an improvement on the normal timetables. Third World transport system.

    Emergency timetable is almost exactly the same as the regular timetable - a total work of fiction with zero resemblance to the actual times that the trains (don't) run.

    Utter tossers. 2 shambles out of 2 so far this week, and the worst is still to come.
  • Got on a Charing X train at Welling this morning at about 7.45. Driver announces they'll be on the way shortly but station staff are telling passengers that nothing is running until at least 10am. As I'm always prepared to believe the worst with this bunch of arseholes I get off the train and join the extensive queue at the bus stop for a 51 to Woolwich. The queue means that it's the 3rd bus to arrive before I can get on one. Eventually get to Woolwich with a 10 minute wait for the next DLR to Bank. Get on that and seconds after it pulls out there's an announcement that due to a passenger incident at Westferry this train is now terminating at Poplar and customers should change at Canning Town for the Jubilee Line into London. Thankfully, by the time we got that far the incident had resolved and we did actually go onto Bank. I got into work 2 hours after I got on a train.

    Altogether now! Cuuuuuuuunnnnn.....
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  • the emergency timetable is basically just the Saturday one....2 trains an hour from Welling to Cannon St
  • Had to get a cab to Lewisham this morning so I could get into work not-that-late. Don't suppose I'm able to claim back for that, but hey ho.

    Useless service this.
  • iaitch said:

    Always makes me smile when watching Homes Under the Hammer and they have a property in South East London and say there's a train service that gets you to Central London in 20 minutes, they are obviously not aware of Southeastern's reputation.

    Bromley line feller....
  • Who me? No retired now.
  • MrLargo said:

    Warm-up shit show today leading up to a full on farce across the rest of the week. But don't worry about paying a fortune and still being late to work everyday, at least you can send a message to a loved one on one of their useless platform displays:

    That is absolutely ripe for social media fuckery @MrLargo

    Mock up a southeastern destination boars thing and put an abusive valentine's message on it. It's the very definition of 'going viral'
  • Roses are red. Your trains are white. Sorry I'm going to be home late darling but the trains are shite! #SECupid

    Insert @Rizzo's favourite C word here... Cuuuuuuuu
  • JohnBoyUK said:

    Roses are red. Your trains are white. Sorry I'm going to be home late darling but the trains are shite! #SECupid

    Insert @Rizzo's favourite C word here... Cuuuuuuuu

    Did you just go into a tunnel?
  • Wait till snow arrives.
  • MrLargo said:

    Warm-up shit show today leading up to a full on farce across the rest of the week. But don't worry about paying a fortune and still being late to work everyday, at least you can send a message to a loved one on one of their useless platform displays:

    That is absolutely ripe for social media fuckery @MrLargo

    Mock up a southeastern destination boars thing and put an abusive valentine's message on it. It's the very definition of 'going viral'
    Sadly not IT savvy enough to create anything that goes viral, but I am providing sarcastic replies to their Valentines tweets on a daily basis, small victories and all that.
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