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

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  • Friend had their train cancelled this morning due 'unusually large passenger flow'

    As well as being the most ridiculous excuse ever, I can't work out if there was more passengers, or a bigger increase in large passengers
    .

    The encyclopedia that is google suggests that unusually large passenger flow could in fact mean a short formed train!
  • JohnBoyUK said:

    Friend had their train cancelled this morning due 'unusually large passenger flow'

    As well as being the most ridiculous excuse ever, I can't work out if there was more passengers, or a bigger increase in large passengers
    .

    The encyclopedia that is google suggests that unusually large passenger flow could in fact mean a short formed train!
    I thought it was something to do with everyone needing a piss
  • Southeastern have been making a big thing about all those extra coaches being made available in recent weeks.

    I've had about six tweets from said company informing me of trains being 4 coaches instead of 6/8/10..so where did these extra coaches go...did you lose them under a pile of leaves?
  • Southeastern have been making a big thing about all those extra coaches being made available in recent weeks.

    I've had about six tweets from said company informing me of trains being 4 coaches instead of 6/8/10..so where did these extra coaches go...did you lose them under a pile of leaves?

    It's where King Robbo got the idea to bring in Allardyce.
  • Macronate said:

    Macronate said:

    Scheduled 09:26 from Barnehurst arrived at 09:28.

    No apology.

    Shambles.

    Unbelievable.

    On the return journey, the scheduled 12:04 train from London Bridge shows an expected arrival time of 12:05 and then arrives at 12:03 and 54 secs.

    No wonder you lot get the hump with these people.
    I look forward to this input every time you get a train remotely on time, thrilling stuff!
  • RENFE in Spain, Trenitalia in Italy so I assume they are state run.
    Not sure about the Swiss but equally good so probably state run.

    They probably deal with the whole infrastructure where ours is a mess.

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    Italian rail journeys not cheap but from limited experience fairly reliable I especially enjoyed the fact that all the train info/next train boards/screens/etc have columns for “delayed by x minutes” i.e. delays from timetable are inevitable but we’re upfront about them.
    Economies of both Spain and Italy running preposterous deficits with no realistic prospect of solvency. Foundations of Swiss economy of course shady as hell.
    But the absolute requirement for our national rail network to be state owned, funded and managed as an essential resource cannot be sanely questioned
  • edited October 2017
    In Jan my boss asked me if I would be up for running a sales office tup north, my first thought was "I wont have to get southeastern". So I jumped at it. Upped sticks and moved up here.

    I read this thread still just to hammer home I made the right decision
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  • Friend had their train cancelled this morning due 'unusually large passenger flow'

    As well as being the most ridiculous excuse ever, I can't work out if there was more passengers, or a bigger increase in large passengers
    .

    Perhaps it was Big Sam on his way to The Valley
  • robroy said:

    In Jan my boss asked me if I would be up for running a sales office tup north, my first thought was "I wont have to get southeastern". So I jumped at it. Upped sticks and moved up here.

    I read this thread still just to hammer home I made the right decision

    How are you coping without electricity or running water?
    And also with having to go out to the garden to go to the toilet?
  • JohnnyH2 said:

    8:03 to Victoria was absolutely packed this morning and "CAN YOU MOVE DOWN PLEASE" was met with a truthful reply of "there is nowhere to move"

    was quite amusing hearing peoples responses, we had "I know but can you just make a little bit room as I need to get to work", "YOULL NEED TO MAKE ROOM!" and my favourite is someone tapping on the window trying to tell everyone who had to move and where to.

    It’s great when this happens - I like to look up from the comfort of my seat and either smile, look at my watch or nod.
    Especially enjoy the smirk out the window at all the granola chewing guardian bell ends that try getting on at Blackheath but cant.
    Especially when all they have to do is take a 5 minute bus ride to Lewisham for choice of a lot more trains, trains that have have a lot of people getting off for the DLR or the DLR. But no they would rather use Blackheath than be seen as part of Lewisham
    Get a bus? You gotta be joking mate, granola blackheath crowd ain’t gonna take a bus for anyone. Surprised they don’t get an uber to lewisham while wearing a veil made out of biodegradeable bat shit though mind.
    I don't believe that they've even heard of a skinny flat white at Lewisham station. No thank you, sir.
  • edited October 2017

    robroy said:

    In Jan my boss asked me if I would be up for running a sales office tup north, my first thought was "I wont have to get southeastern". So I jumped at it. Upped sticks and moved up here.

    I read this thread still just to hammer home I made the right decision

    How are you coping without electricity or running water?
    haha, we did have a power cut on Tuesday. It's actually decent up here, near on impossible to spend any money. I do travel back for all of the sat home games, good old Grand Central to Kings cross. Only delay up here was animals on the line.

    Nice 10 minute compute to Bradford away on saturday.
  • JohnnyH2 said:

    8:03 to Victoria was absolutely packed this morning and "CAN YOU MOVE DOWN PLEASE" was met with a truthful reply of "there is nowhere to move"

    was quite amusing hearing peoples responses, we had "I know but can you just make a little bit room as I need to get to work", "YOULL NEED TO MAKE ROOM!" and my favourite is someone tapping on the window trying to tell everyone who had to move and where to.

    It’s great when this happens - I like to look up from the comfort of my seat and either smile, look at my watch or nod.
    Especially enjoy the smirk out the window at all the granola chewing guardian bell ends that try getting on at Blackheath but cant.
    Especially when all they have to do is take a 5 minute bus ride to Lewisham for choice of a lot more trains, trains that have have a lot of people getting off for the DLR or the DLR. But no they would rather use Blackheath than be seen as part of Lewisham
    Get a bus? You gotta be joking mate, granola blackheath crowd ain’t gonna take a bus for anyone. Surprised they don’t get an uber to lewisham while wearing a veil made out of biodegradeable bat shit though mind.
    I don't believe that they've even heard of a skinny flat white at Lewisham station. No thank you, sir.
    Are you joking? Have you seen the type of people that live around Lewisham station nowadays? We've even got a Starbucks in the centre now!
  • Absolute fucking nightmare tonight
  • What’s this thread doing on page 9..... anyway......

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  • Signaling problems again. Nothing at lewisham for the sidcup or Orpington lines. Typically it’s the day I need to pick my daughter up from school. Useless c*nts.
  • And then out of the blue, a sidcup train turns up. The indicator went from delayed (with announcements saying no idea how long) to due in 2 minutes.
  • Orpington line is fcuked because of the ongoing murder investigation at Knockholt.
  • JohnBoyUK said:

    Orpington line is fcuked because of the ongoing murder investigation from 1971 at Knockholt.

  • It was broken down trains yesterday. Signalling problems again today. Same errors. Over and over and over.
  • Greenwich line buggered because... why not ruin someone's evening.
  • And then out of the blue, a sidcup train turns up. The indicator went from delayed (with announcements saying no idea how long) to due in 2 minutes.

    You just can't wait to criticise can you?
    I was gutted. Train turned up before I could ring AFKA to meet in a pub.
  • Now they're blaming the emergency services dealing with a prior incident. So to make up for it they've reduced the train to four carriages....
  • I no longer use Southeastern trains at the weekend due to the poor service, i use the DLR instead.
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