They are absolutely all over the shop this morning. Nothing running from or through westcombe park. Had to walk to Charlton and then get a train going at the pace of Phil Chapple through Blackheath. It's that slow that as I went through Blackheath, I thought I could see my 16 year old self getting off the train the day we beat Sunderland in the play off final as I went to celebrate on the Heath.
At least my driver kindly announced we stuck at another signal and he then said sorry but he had no clue why! Made me laugh.
At least you can hear the driver, our one mumbles his way through every announcement
I think they're instructed by management to do that on certain days so that passengers don't get bored with hearing the same old excuses.
Monday morning - delayed due to congestion in the London Bridge area Tuesday morning - delayed due to an earlier failed train between Grove Park and Hither Green Wednesday - delayed to a displaced train crew Thursday - indecipherable mumbling through a sock Friday - delayed due to extreme weather conditions (usually a small Cirrus cloud spotted somewhere over the Atlantic is enough to roll this one out)
Twats. Really must find the time to go to one of their "Meet the Manager Days" and be very mean to them indeed.
Our train came in last night bit late. Doors opened... it was a posh train. You know with 4 seats, tables and fold down tables on each single seat. We all got on and could tell everyone was looking around nervous waiting to hear the announcement to check that it was actually the Woolwich line which was being treated to such finery. Course a few mins later he comes on and tells us there's a been a mistake and we all have to get off as this is the Ramsgate train. Back to the shit crowded train for us Woolwich line merchants.
sat outside LB for about half an hour without moving this morning.
from Jan 2015 to Aug 2016 no Charing X trains will be stopping at LB either!!
Those cannon st ones will be a vehicle of anger and despair as commuters already angry at high fares and lack of space get squeezed tighter.
It's going to be absolute hell. There are already fewer Cannon St trains than there are Charing Cross and they all stop at every station (other than St Johns), compared to various fast and semi-fast options to Charing Cross. Now, every bastard that wants to go to London Bridge who was previously on a Charing Cross train will be on the already massively overcrowded Cannon St trains. 18 months of not getting a seat and being rammed in like cattle, accompanied by a suitably inflation-busting fare increase. Can't fucking wait!!
i've now started using the service only upto Woolwich and then get on the DLR, seems i got away with it this morning, but SE are a shambles. how they are still in business befuddles me!
After finishing 30 years of commuting on New Years Eve last year this is now my favourite thread. Sorry.
Yeah but you've earned it. No one would be grudge someone who's done their 'time' a little satisfaction in hearing of others' miseries.
What pisses me off is the 'tickets will be valid on local buses and the DLR'
I get on at Westcombe park and work in Charing X. A bus or a DLR to f'n bank/canary wharf is no good for me. It would take me much longer and I'd still have to get a tube at some point. They should just notify TFL, say 'we've fucked it up (again)' and we should be able to use our overly priced weekly, monthly, annual tickets on the tube.
I'm always going to be paying out extra. Yes you can get a refund, but I expect the refund to compensate for the cancellation. Not to cover the cost of topping up an oyster.
It's basically like being told by Sainsburys, you've ordered and paid for your Xmas Turkey, we couldn't get you one, here's some wafer thin ham to all tuck into on Xmas day.
But you dont tap in the oyster, you queue at a tube barrier with someone manning it and say Southeastern issues and they should let you through without tapping in and out. Thats what they are saying anyway. Going to be a right pain tho.
i've now started using the service only upto Woolwich and then get on the DLR, seems i got away with it this morning, but SE are a shambles. how they are still in business befuddles me!
Because we (rail commuters) are a captive audience who literally have no alternative other than to use their 'services'. If there was a viable alternative, they would have been snuffed out of business years ago. Ever-increasing squeezes on driving into London, coupled with people being pushed further and further out of London in search of affordable housing mean they (SouthEastern) and all their ilk are laughing all the way to the bank.
i've now started using the service only upto Woolwich and then get on the DLR, seems i got away with it this morning, but SE are a shambles. how they are still in business befuddles me!
Because we (rail commuters) are a captive audience who literally have no alternative other than to use their 'services'. If there was a viable alternative, they would have been snuffed out of business years ago. Ever-increasing squeezes on driving into London, coupled with people being pushed further and further out of London in search of affordable housing mean they (SouthEastern) and all their ilk are laughing all the way to the bank.
And the biggest piss take is if you find a decent priced 3/4 bed further out to try and start a family, what money you save you give it all back to South Eastern. They're colluding with the government. Build less homes, and those that you do build (in London anyway), keep at massively inflated prices. Gits
Maze Hill, Greenwich and Deptford dont. only ones that do are the london terminals Abbey wood on one side, Woolwich Arsenal and Dartford seems there are more barriers on the sidcup and bexleyheath lines
Maze Hill, Greenwich and Deptford dont. only ones that do are the london terminals Abbey wood on one side, Woolwich Arsenal and Dartford seems there are more barriers on the sidcup and bexleyheath lines
There's very little room to fare dodge these days. Not that I'm advocating it. I remember the glory days of 2005/2006 when I was studying down in Guildford. Waterloo had no barriers, and Guildford had an unprotected back exit (ooooh matron)
Just checked the timetables for January 2015. To cope with the massive increase in passengers on the Cannon St trains and corresponding decrease on Charing Cross trains, Southeastern have...run all the morning peak Cannon St trains one minute earlier. No extra trains. No changing one or more Charing X into a Cannon St. Just make 'em a minute earlier.
Maze Hill, Greenwich and Deptford dont. only ones that do are the london terminals Abbey wood on one side, Woolwich Arsenal and Dartford seems there are more barriers on the sidcup and bexleyheath lines
There's very little room to fare dodge these days. Not that I'm advocating it. I remember the glory days of 2005/2006 when I was studying down in Guildford. Waterloo had no barriers, and Guildford had an unprotected back exit (ooooh matron)
I go downt to Guildford for work regularly and I have not seen the unprotected back exit, fat lot of good it does me as I need a ticket to get through to waterloo....
i've now started using the service only upto Woolwich and then get on the DLR, seems i got away with it this morning, but SE are a shambles. how they are still in business befuddles me!
Because we (rail commuters) are a captive audience who literally have no alternative other than to use their 'services'. If there was a viable alternative, they would have been snuffed out of business years ago. Ever-increasing squeezes on driving into London, coupled with people being pushed further and further out of London in search of affordable housing mean they (SouthEastern) and all their ilk are laughing all the way to the bank.
And the biggest piss take is if you find a decent priced 3/4 bed further out to try and start a family, what money you save you give it all back to South Eastern. They're colluding with the government. Build less homes, and those that you do build (in London anyway), keep at massively inflated prices. Gits
You are bang on the money there. It's 5 grand a year or thereabouts for a fast annual ticket from chatham to St Pancras. There's the money saved on a cheaper mortgage on a family home within walking distance of the station (dirty part of Chatham) and renting would end up costing you more. Wankers
I go downt to Guildford for work regularly and I have not seen the unprotected back exit, fat lot of good it does me as I need a ticket to get through to waterloo....
Over the other side. Used to be unprotected but now secure. Mind you that was back in 2005/2006. They might have changed it since
Just checked the timetables for January 2015. To cope with the massive increase in passengers on the Cannon St trains and corresponding decrease on Charing Cross trains, Southeastern have...run all the morning peak Cannon St trains one minute earlier. No extra trains. No changing one or more Charing X into a Cannon St. Just make 'em a minute earlier.
That'll sort it!!
Haha - in the age of technology we live in, that's the best they can come up with
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Such a shit service
from Jan 2015 to Aug 2016 no Charing X trains will be stopping at LB either!!
Genuinely dreading the next few years
Monday morning - delayed due to congestion in the London Bridge area
Tuesday morning - delayed due to an earlier failed train between Grove Park and Hither Green
Wednesday - delayed to a displaced train crew
Thursday - indecipherable mumbling through a sock
Friday - delayed due to extreme weather conditions (usually a small Cirrus cloud spotted somewhere over the Atlantic is enough to roll this one out)
Twats. Really must find the time to go to one of their "Meet the Manager Days" and be very mean to them indeed.
Chooo choooooo
Sorry.
What pisses me off is the 'tickets will be valid on local buses and the DLR'
I get on at Westcombe park and work in Charing X. A bus or a DLR to f'n bank/canary wharf is no good for me. It would take me much longer and I'd still have to get a tube at some point. They should just notify TFL, say 'we've fucked it up (again)' and we should be able to use our overly priced weekly, monthly, annual tickets on the tube.
I'm always going to be paying out extra. Yes you can get a refund, but I expect the refund to compensate for the cancellation. Not to cover the cost of topping up an oyster.
It's basically like being told by Sainsburys, you've ordered and paid for your Xmas Turkey, we couldn't get you one, here's some wafer thin ham to all tuck into on Xmas day.
That'll sort it!!
You are bang on the money there. It's 5 grand a year or thereabouts for a fast annual ticket from chatham to St Pancras. There's the money saved on a cheaper mortgage on a family home within walking distance of the station (dirty part of Chatham) and renting would end up costing you more. Wankers
Don't be distracted by the smiley face and the fact that she's probably good enough for a "Would Ya" thread, this bitch is evil personified!