Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

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

1172173175177178210

Comments

  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,007
    Going assume by the silence that the trains were fine post work?
    Yes, it looks like their warnings to reduce numbers may have done the trick.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    Had a few pints in the beer house at Victoria lovely and air conned now on the train on time and I’m only person in the carriage aside from some pair of bints that have there feet on the seats 🤢🤢
  • Can't stand people that do that.  I'd like to wrap her crowbar over her knees.  Fat selfish pig!
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,981
    edited July 2019
    Them old trotters making me feel sick 
  • stop_shouting
    stop_shouting Posts: 3,680
    On time this morning and four minutes late this evening. Said before, chislehurst line is where it’s at. Looking forward to hearing the Sidcup/bexleyheath line tales of woe!
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,630
    Had a few pints in the beer house at Victoria lovely and air conned now on the train on time and I’m only person in the carriage aside from some pair of bints that have there feet on the seats 🤢🤢
    F**k me, her leg has got an arse.
    I bet you’re well into that.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    Going assume by the silence that the trains were fine post work?
    Hasn’t been too bad, just on the Sidcup line train now:


  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,365
    On time this morning and four minutes late this evening. Said before, chislehurst line is where it’s at. Looking forward to hearing the Sidcup/bexleyheath line tales of woe!
    Fast train to and from Orpington today, both left on time and this mornings arrived early at Charing Cross. This evenings train, I think the aircon was set a little cold.
    Good see Southeastern concentrates all efforts on my line..
  • Sponsored links:



  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    Had a few pints in the beer house at Victoria lovely and air conned now on the train on time and I’m only person in the carriage aside from some pair of bints that have there feet on the seats 🤢🤢
    Do you fancy her?

    If the answer is yes you have drunk too many.
  •  hats off to this chap 

    I think it’s a woman?
  • Macronate said:
    Going assume by the silence that the trains were fine post work?
    Hasn’t been too bad, just on the Sidcup line train now:


    You sure that’s the Sidcuo line ? They look too posh
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,650
    edited July 2019
    Nope you’re right defiantly a man, as you were.
  • cafckev
    cafckev Posts: 2,914
     hats off to this chap 

    Was they on a train going via Woolwich because I am sure he was sitting at a bus stop outside the station about 6:40 
  • Don’t mind me, just catching up on some emails. 
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    Jesus wept, look at those sandals.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Not Southeastern, but this is why there was chaos at Waterloo earlier


  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    Don’t mind me, just catching up on some emails. 
    Who would seriously do that? However hot it is that is not acceptable.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Macronate said:
    Jesus wept, look at those sandals.
    To be honest, the sandals are the least of the issues  :#
  • Sponsored links:



  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,007
     hats off to this chap 

    Well you say hats off, but his good idea failed when he forgot to turn it on.
  • Rudders22
    Rudders22 Posts: 3,864
    Don’t mind me, just catching up on some emails. 
    Who would seriously do that? However hot it is that is not acceptable.
    To be fair I have driven in my car topless when it has been too hot 
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,630
    Macronate said:
    Jesus wept, look at those sandals.
    It must have been hot, he’s taken his socks off.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,981
    Don’t mind me, just catching up on some emails. 
    State of him. OB need to check that hard drive.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    edited July 2019
    Don’t mind me, just catching up on some emails. 
    State of him. OB need to check that hard drive.

  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    Grayling's gone. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss:

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/grant-shapps-hs2-heathrow-transport-policy-voting-record-boris-johnson-a9020141.html

    "Shapps doesn't have the best reputation as a politician: he ran a get-rich-quick scheme under a false name, and was caught misleading the public about it. Last year he resigned from a role at a property website after allegations of a "secret pay deal" worth up to £700,000. As a shadow minister he took donations from companies relevant to his portfolio, which some argued amounted to a conflict of interest."

    Sounds like an absolute c*%t, so fully expecting South Eastern to have their franchise extended by another decade.

    On a separate note, there was a bloke on the radio this morning explaining why the rail network has collapsed in the heat, particularly in relation to tracks warping. He was asked why it happens hear but not in Spain, Japan etc. Apparently they stretch the rails to reduce warping - in Spain they stretch them more in anticipation of higher temperatures, whereas in this country ours were stretched to cope with temperatures up to 27C. 

    I was taught about climate change and global warming when I was at primary school in the 1980's, but apparently nobody with anything to do with looking after the train lines in the UK has ever heard of it. Pathetic.
  • Well how often do we get temperatures above 27C . Happens all the time in most of Spain i would think. 900 miles nearer the equator for a start. Only 700 miles to john o groats and the weather up there is not comparable to london.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    Well how often do we get temperatures above 27C . Happens all the time in most of Spain i would think. 900 miles nearer the equator for a start. Only 700 miles to john o groats and the weather up there is not comparable to london.
    Well, I haven't got time to research our entire weather history, so I've just checked back as far as 2009 - we've had temperatures over 27C every year since then, even in 2010 which was the coldest year since 1986.

    But presumably, because we don't get temperatures of over 27C all year round, there's no point in doing anything about it and our entire country, which is one of the richest in the world, should just accept that everything will descend into farce for a few days every year. Just we do every autumn when trees shock everyone by dropping leaves. Just as we do every winter, when the completely unexpected cold weather leads to completely unforeseeable icy conditions. Don't get me started on snow.

    Let's just base our entire infrastructure on the premise that it's going to be Spring all year round.
  • Consistent temperature over 27C?. And yes there will be a few days a year when parts of the country descend into farce when an unexpected un seasonal event happens but thats life. Railways were crap 60 years ago at times, snow and ice closed roads. Always has been, always will. 
  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    Consistent temperature over 27C?. And yes there will be a few days a year when parts of the country descend into farce when an unexpected un seasonal event happens but thats life. Railways were crap 60 years ago at times, snow and ice closed roads. Always has been, always will. 
    Last summer we had consistent temps over 27c for about 6 weeks. All the experts are saying that this will become the norm now and have been warning about it for years but still people will say global warming is fake news.
    I think its pretty poor that SouthEastern cannot still run a decent train service despite making huge amounts of money for years.
    To say it was crap 60yrs ago and always will be is not on really. If thats the case it should be priced at 60yrs ago