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

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  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    August 1st. A week after the longest day and the f...... heating is on full blast on the 0822 from Dartford to Charing Cross. You couldn't make it up.
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    Sillybilly said:

    August 1st. A week after the longest day and the f...... heating is on full blast on the 0822 from Dartford to Charing Cross. You couldn't make it up.

    5 weeks?
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,628
    EastTerrace said:

    Sillybilly said:

    August 1st. A week after the longest day and the f...... heating is on full blast on the 0822 from Dartford to Charing Cross. You couldn't make it up.

    5 weeks?
    Now he tells us the black and white film was on the telly last Monday and we've missed it.
  • smiffyboy
    smiffyboy Posts: 4,314
    surprise surprise Cannon Street trains are fucked again, this lot really are a shower of shite, wonder if KM sits on the board of south eastern also!!!!
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    Fucking hell. Train on fire at dartford and train broken down at sidcup. Sidcup line completely fucked. Everything diverted down bexleyheath line. Total chaos. I'm lucky as I was going to crayford and my train (Strood train on the Sidcup line ex Charing Cross) has just been diverted to dartford but pity any poor sods behind me.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,298
    1.8% rise on fares next year ladies and gents.

    Keith Shepherd, 53, a business analyst from Dartford in Kent, said delays on his regular route were "considerably worse than in the bad old days when season ticket prices were reduced to compensate passengers for 'poor' performance".
    He added: "My journey has to be delayed by more than 100% of the expected journey time in order to receive any compensation, and even then they use ridiculous calculations to minimise the amount they have to pay."
    Manuel Cortes, general secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association, said private profit was being placed above rail safety.
    "Our rail fares are already the highest in Europe and today's increases will only make that record worse," he added.
    "It's time that ministers gave rail passengers a break and actually froze fares in real terms."
    The union-led Action for Rail group said it was planning to stage protests at a number of stations in England, Scotland and Wales on Tuesday.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,298
    payback for badmouthing them usual 10 carriage train is tonight made of 4, useless cunts.
  • SE10Addick
    SE10Addick Posts: 2,964
    I got so fed up with it all - got a Moped.

    Cost me £15 a week in fuel max and takes 45 mins to get from Bexley to Shoreditch.
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    In a mess again this morning ,signal problems at Lewisham,expect chaos
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    SE10Addick said:

    I got so fed up with it all - got a Moped.

    Cost me £15 a week in fuel max and takes 45 mins to get from Bexley to Shoreditch.

    Doesn't your beard get caught in the front wheel though?

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  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,948
    addick1965 said:

    In a mess again this morning ,signal problems at Lewisham,expect chaos

    Apparently a train caught fire somewhere as well so that caused more fun. I managed to catch the 6:45 train at 7:30 and I'm still on it. Not getting anywhere too fast...
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,234
    A train probably caught fire in Aberdeen but has a knock on effect on Southeastern.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,991
    iaitch said:

    A train probably caught fire in Aberdeen but has a knock on effect on Southeastern.

    Reports of a leaf on the track in Strathclyde - South Eastern have implemented an emergency timetable as a precaution with immediate effect, and this will remain in place until further notice.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    "If you don't like it don't bother fucking getting a train"

    RoJo has really started something here :smile:
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    The Lewisham station manager has apologised to Russell Slade.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,606
    MrLargo said:

    iaitch said:

    A train probably caught fire in Aberdeen but has a knock on effect on Southeastern.

    Reports of a leaf on the track in Strathclyde - South Eastern have implemented an emergency timetable as a precaution with immediate effect, and this will remain in place until further notice.
    But passengers can rest assured that the heating systems will be working at full temperature during the disruption.
  • kimbo
    kimbo Posts: 2,996
    Anyone else affected by the train hell week at the end of the month - Westcombe Park start point!
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,232
    Where do you work kimbo?
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,056
    cantersaddick said:

    addick1965 said:

    In a mess again this morning ,signal problems at Lewisham,expect chaos

    Apparently a train caught fire somewhere as well so that caused more fun. I managed to catch the 6:45 train at 7:30 and I'm still on it. Not getting anywhere too fast...
    Not surprised they catch fire when they have the heating on full blast!
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,212
    Not defending these thieves one bit, but isn't signal failure, which is what the problem has been all week, network rails fault?!

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  • iamdan
    iamdan Posts: 2,421
    Good luck....

  • smiffyboy
    smiffyboy Posts: 4,314
    What a fucking mess
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,948
    Just heard a driver speaking to a member of platform staff at Chatham. He said that the control room lost all connection with the chatham-Rochester area so had no idea where any of the trains were. So just told them all to stop. And there was a long wait while they tried to regain the connection then they decided to let the trains go using the phones so they are making them go slow and with a bigger gap between each train... brilliant!
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,948
    Glad I only have 2 more weeks of this before I return to uni.
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,821
    London Bridge is looking a bit different !
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,298
    actually done something to please me this morning they have started running a 5.47 train from barnehurst to Victoria which is ideal for work, admittedly there were about 20 people on it when we got off at Victoria but still v handy for me.
  • robroy
    robroy Posts: 4,428
    Train was on time, heating was on. Packed in like sardines.

    I must say the station is looking great.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,105
    DLR was perfect today. Bring back British Rail!
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    edited August 2016
    My 0820 from dartford to Charing Cross is now the 0821 and has two extra carriages. It's absolutely heaving. No idea where all these extra peeps have come from unless they all use London Bridge and they are returning after two years. Just approaching London Bridge now so will get a look at the new unveiled platforms.

    PS. It's late! Fancy that.
  • robroy
    robroy Posts: 4,428
    Sillybilly said:

    My 0820 from dartford to Charing Cross is now the 0821 and has two extra carriages. It's absolutely heaving. No idea where all these extra peeps have come from unless they all use London Bridge and they are returning after two years. Just approaching London Bridge now so will get a look at the new unveiled platforms.

    PS. It's late! Fancy that.

    This will be the Canon Street mob. They start running to Canon street as of the 1st so should die down

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