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

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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,599
    Southeastern, putting the c*nt into country and western.
  • Robbo on the wing
    Robbo on the wing Posts: 4,135
    Looks like trouble tonight going by current state of play at Charing Cross (delays)
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,599
    AFKA, I've just left Peterborough on the way back from Leeds. Will be with you shortly pal.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,623
    edited July 2017
    DaveMehmet said:

    AFKA, I've just left Peterborough on the way back from Leeds. Will be with you, short pal.

  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    AFKABartram creates an online forum which provides the only shining light for CAFC fans through one of its most turbulent periods....remembered for being short!
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,599
    Just got on at London Bridge and all seems fine now. Pity, fancied a beer.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    DaveMehmet said:

    Just got on at London Bridge and all seems fine now. Pity, fancied a beer.

    Unlucky mate, you'll have to go home and bring the washing in! :wink:
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    DaveMehmet said:

    Just got on at London Bridge and all seems fine now. Pity, fancied a beer.

    Only just finished tonight so you would have had a long wait!
  • Plumstead_Micky
    Plumstead_Micky Posts: 932
    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.
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    Plumstead_Micky said:

    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.
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    MrLargo said:

    They're in the middle of a "programme" to disable the heating on all of their Metro trains??!!

    So they've bought a load of trains that don't have an on/off switch for the heating?

    Are they buying their trains from Del Trotter?

    Unbelievable.

    Yes, the 'programme' is a YouTube video showing how to push the lever from red to blue, and how to stop for swans and twigs on the tracks.
    colthe3rd said:

    Plumstead_Micky said:

    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
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,034
    edited July 2017
    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.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    ElfsborgAddick said:

    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!!
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,599
    ElfsborgAddick said:

    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.

    1st day of the summer holidays, what do you expect?
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    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.
  • SE10Addick
    SE10Addick Posts: 2,963
    DaveMehmet said:

    AFKABartram said:

    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.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    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.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    Sillybilly said:

    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.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,228
    They can compare the Japanese bullet trains that travel at 300mph to Southeastern trains that travel at about 3mph if you're lucky.
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  • Shag
    Shag Posts: 4,555
    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
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,914
    Shag said:

    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?
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    cantersaddick said:

    Shag said:

    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?
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,914
    ForeverAddickted said:

    cantersaddick said:

    Shag said:

    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?
    Have a sympathy lol for a bad pun.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    edited July 2017
    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.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,914
    MrLargo said:

    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.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    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.
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,434
    I'd leave tonight if I were you. Just to be on the safe side.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    cantersaddick said:

    MrLargo said:

    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.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,853
    ForeverAddickted said:

    ElfsborgAddick said:

    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!!
    They did. It was the 7:25

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