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Cancellations all the rage tonight on the Woolwich line. Blaming signalling problems. What the hell is wrong with those signals!? Following this morning's announcement about delays because of power problems in the New Cross area.
Cancellations all the rage tonight on the Woolwich line. Blaming signalling problems. What the hell is wrong with those signals!? Following this morning's announcement about delays because of power problems in the New Cross area.
Funny how it always seems to happen when it's a nice day.
Cancellations all the rage tonight on the Woolwich line. Blaming signalling problems. What the hell is wrong with those signals!? Following this morning's announcement about delays because of power problems in the New Cross area.
Funny how it always seems to happen when it's a nice day.
Indicator malfunction causing havoc with trains turning, signalling is fucked
On the Victoria Line yesterday morning when an announcement came over that Finsbury Park tube was closed due to insufficient staff!
Not heard that one before.
Least it wasnt Oxford Station yesterday.
Heard that about 100-people missed their train @ 7am yesterday morning because the person who's job it is to open the actual Station overslept and wasnt there... Why there wasnt a backup plan by the Station in case this ever happened I'll never know!!
Sat next to a ticking set of inter-doors that won't close and it is like Chinese water torture!
I know I could move seats to another carriage. But I've been sitting in this seat and this carriage for 25 years, and I won't let a set of ticking doors force me away.
Sat next to a ticking set of inter-doors that won't close and it is like Chinese water torture!
I know I could move seats to another carriage. But I've been sitting in this seat and this carriage for 25 years, and I won't let a set of ticking doors force me away.
Sat next to a ticking set of inter-doors that won't close and it is like Chinese water torture!
I know I could move seats to another carriage. But I've been sitting in this seat and this carriage for 25 years, and I won't let a set of ticking doors force me away.
25 years? That's one hell of a delay.
24 years of those was sat in a pub waiting for the train though.
Loads of Japanese kids been getting in at bexleyheath and barnehurst this last two weeks. Fifty or sixty of them. They are very well behaved.
Lot of foreign kids - some Oriental, some European - getting on at Catford Bridge in the mornings recently.
Using public transport when visiting a foreign country is a super way of understanding the culture and picking up some of the local lingo. I'm sure these youngsters will get a great deal of benefit from learning phrases such as "short-formed", "signal failure at Lewisham", "displaced train crew" and "failed train blocking the line at Dunton Green". It's also comforting to know that, as a consequence of their half hour or so in the "care" of South Eastern Trains, they'll probably go home and tell their parents that England is a third world country where everyone is in a permanent state of fury or depression and people travel to work on something slower than a horse and cart which has the heating turned up to maximum on the hottest days of the year.
They might be well behaved these kids but they can fuck off at rush hour . Same goes for buggies , pushchairs , OAPs with shopping bags , bicycles , tourists , rucksacks , ticket inspectors and bexleybeef people on the sidcup line
They might be well behaved these kids but they can fuck off at rush hour . Same goes for buggies , pushchairs , OAPs with shopping bags , bicycles , tourists , rucksacks , ticket inspectors and bexleybeef people on the sidcup line
This. And people with buggys etc are always the ones that insist on getting on the front carriage. Like can't you see it's busy. If you want to get a train at rush hour get on the back and you might have space. Someone once got on with a fucking ladder! A ladder! Like what reason would you have for taking a ladder on a rush hour train to Victoria and getting on the front carriage?
They might be well behaved these kids but they can fuck off at rush hour . Same goes for buggies , pushchairs , OAPs with shopping bags , bicycles , tourists , rucksacks , ticket inspectors and bexleybeef people on the sidcup line
This. And people with buggys etc are always the ones that insist on getting on the front carriage. Like can't you see it's busy. If you want to get a train at rush hour get on the back and you might have space. Someone once got on with a fucking ladder! A ladder! Like what reason would you have for taking a ladder on a rush hour train to Victoria and getting on the front carriage?
Maybe he sees it as a step up to his regular commute?
They might be well behaved these kids but they can fuck off at rush hour . Same goes for buggies , pushchairs , OAPs with shopping bags , bicycles , tourists , rucksacks , ticket inspectors and bexleybeef people on the sidcup line
This. And people with buggys etc are always the ones that insist on getting on the front carriage. Like can't you see it's busy. If you want to get a train at rush hour get on the back and you might have space. Someone once got on with a fucking ladder! A ladder! Like what reason would you have for taking a ladder on a rush hour train to Victoria and getting on the front carriage?
Maybe he sees it as a step up to his regular commute?
When you back in the ratrace @cantersaddick ? Must be soon now. I bet you're really excited frantically trying to find a Masters' Degree so you can postpone the inevitable for a bit longer.
When you back in the ratrace @cantersaddick ? Must be soon now. I bet you're really excited frantically trying to find a Masters' Degree you can do to postpone the inevitable for a bit longer.
Less than 3 weeks now. Got 2 weeks travelling in Europe first, starting on Thursday so trying not to think about the commute until I'm back.
I'm going into the office tomorrow to meet my new team etc so guaranteed the trains will be up the wall.
during rush hour should be commuters, unfortunately i pass through south kensington every evening where a whole array of tat from the natural history museum makes its way on to the train luckily only 2 stops and then im off.wimbldeon is the only other time of the year in which i hate my commute.
When you back in the ratrace @cantersaddick ? Must be soon now. I bet you're really excited frantically trying to find a Masters' Degree you can do to postpone the inevitable for a bit longer.
Less than 3 weeks now. Got 2 weeks travelling in Europe first, starting on Thursday so trying not to think about the commute until I'm back.
I'm going into the office tomorrow to meet my new team etc so guaranteed the trains will be up the wall.
Ah well, enjoy your travelling around Europe. I know we moan about it a lot on here, but the commuting isn't that bad once you get used to it, and the trains have actually been pretty reliable recently.*
*That last sentence is a complete work of fiction. Commuting is like being dragged slowly through the pits of hell every morning and evening. The trains have been an absolute joke recently - even on a nice mild day, no rain, no wind, no bright sunshine or intense heat, they still find an excuse for cocking everything up. I cry sometimes when I wake up in the morning.
On the Victoria Line yesterday morning when an announcement came over that Finsbury Park tube was closed due to insufficient staff!
Not heard that one before.
Least it wasnt Oxford Station yesterday.
Heard that about 100-people missed their train @ 7am yesterday morning because the person who's job it is to open the actual Station overslept and wasnt there... Why there wasnt a backup plan by the Station in case this ever happened I'll never know!!
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Following this morning's announcement about delays because of power problems in the New Cross area.
Indicator malfunction causing havoc with trains turning, signalling is fucked
Not heard that one before.
Heard that about 100-people missed their train @ 7am yesterday morning because the person who's job it is to open the actual Station overslept and wasnt there... Why there wasnt a backup plan by the Station in case this ever happened I'll never know!!
I know I could move seats to another carriage. But I've been sitting in this seat and this carriage for 25 years, and I won't let a set of ticking doors force me away.
Using public transport when visiting a foreign country is a super way of understanding the culture and picking up some of the local lingo. I'm sure these youngsters will get a great deal of benefit from learning phrases such as "short-formed", "signal failure at Lewisham", "displaced train crew" and "failed train blocking the line at Dunton Green". It's also comforting to know that, as a consequence of their half hour or so in the "care" of South Eastern Trains, they'll probably go home and tell their parents that England is a third world country where everyone is in a permanent state of fury or depression and people travel to work on something slower than a horse and cart which has the heating turned up to maximum on the hottest days of the year.
really excitedfrantically trying to find a Masters' Degree so you can postpone the inevitable for a bit longer.I'm going into the office tomorrow to meet my new team etc so guaranteed the trains will be up the wall.
*That last sentence is a complete work of fiction. Commuting is like being dragged slowly through the pits of hell every morning and evening. The trains have been an absolute joke recently - even on a nice mild day, no rain, no wind, no bright sunshine or intense heat, they still find an excuse for cocking everything up. I cry sometimes when I wake up in the morning.