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
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Think the conductor of my train has deluded himself he's actually a captain of a transatlantic British Airways flight rather than working a clapped out rattler for a 3rd rate train company.
Just arrived at London Bridge at he's said "Thank you for travelling with southeastern. I hope you have a great day lined up. We look forward to seeing you again next time. "
FFS
Edit...just pulling into waterloo east and the prick has repeated his little monologue again.
Please don't let this be a thing they're gonna start.
Edit..arrived at charing Cross and his sign off speech (including use of the word "guys" twice) was so cringe worthy and vomit inducing I can't even bring myself to type it.
Was in a good mood but this moron has completely destroyed my day and aroused my simmering hatred for modern humanity to combustive levels. Wanker.21 -
The encyclopedia that is google suggests that unusually large passenger flow could in fact mean a short formed train!AFKABartram 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
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I thought it was something to do with everyone needing a pissJohnBoyUK said:
The encyclopedia that is google suggests that unusually large passenger flow could in fact mean a short formed train!AFKABartram 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
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Yep.clb74 said:Never get the train to work myself in fact only work up London once in blue moon.
But has anyone on here or someone they know ever thought f@ck it one day and left thier job and worked nearer to home or moved out of London area.
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True Storiesseth plum said:Train announcers are often garbled and speak with unintelligible diction at 100 mph. Useless really.
There are so many instances where Tannoys announcements are made, from supermarkets to airports, and it isn't always accoustics and technology that is at fault, but the fundamental ability to speak clearly.
Clarity of speech is an underrated skill these days, stand up comedians are usually masters of the skill, but so many of the rest of us think we can do it, but we can't.
Mind the gap.
Talking of tannoy announcements, I witnessed the following incidents way back in the 70's.
One mid morning on Woolwich Arsenal station I saw a track worker engaged in some loud banter with a station worker. They then disappeared into the office and shortly after the following came loud and clear through the tannoy.
" This is Woolwich Arsenal. Woolwich ARSE'nal. Woolwich Shitarse. Woolwich Fuckarse"
The other was on Abbey Wood station one Saturday morning when the announcement came through "Attention please. The 11.59 Gillingham to Charing Cross service has been cancelled due to a fertility on the line"
I guess he meant fatality
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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?3 -
It's where King Robbo got the idea to bring in Allardyce.addick1965 said: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?0 -
I look forward to this input every time you get a train remotely on time, thrilling stuff!Macronate said:
Unbelievable.Macronate said:Scheduled 09:26 from Barnehurst arrived at 09:28.
No apology.
Shambles.
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.2 -
<blockquote class="Quote"man_at_milletts said: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.
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
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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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Perhaps it was Big Sam on his way to The ValleyAFKABartram 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
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How are you coping without electricity or running water?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 decision12 -
And also with having to go out to the garden to go to the toilet?Brendan_O_Connell said:
How are you coping without electricity or running water?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 decision1 -
I don't believe that they've even heard of a skinny flat white at Lewisham station. No thank you, sir.Alwaysneil said:
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.JohnnyH2 said:
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 LewishamValleyGary said:
Especially enjoy the smirk out the window at all the granola chewing guardian bell ends that try getting on at Blackheath but cant.ricky_otto said:
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.cafcdave123 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.0 -
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.Brendan_O_Connell said:
How are you coping without electricity or running water?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
Nice 10 minute compute to Bradford away on saturday.1 -
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!Oh_Yoni_Boy said:
I don't believe that they've even heard of a skinny flat white at Lewisham station. No thank you, sir.Alwaysneil said:
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.JohnnyH2 said:
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 LewishamValleyGary said:
Especially enjoy the smirk out the window at all the granola chewing guardian bell ends that try getting on at Blackheath but cant.ricky_otto said:
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.cafcdave123 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.0 -
From this.......
.....to this in 2 days
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Absolute fucking nightmare tonight0
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Comedy event at Charing Cross station tomorrow. Much like catching one of their trains, there's no useful information provided about when it starts. They're saying "tomorrow", so I'm gonna guess late on Friday evening.
Incidentally, if you have to tell people that you've improved your service, rather than them figuring out for themselves, the chances are it hasn't actually improved.14 -
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.0
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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.0
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You just can't wait to criticise can you?DaveMehmet said: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.
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Orpington line is fcuked because of the ongoing murder investigation at Knockholt.0
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JohnBoyUK said:
Orpington line is fcuked because of the ongoing murder investigation from 1971 at Knockholt.
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It was broken down trains yesterday. Signalling problems again today. Same errors. Over and over and over.1
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Greenwich line buggered because... why not ruin someone's evening.0
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I was gutted. Train turned up before I could ring AFKA to meet in a pub.Brendan_O_Connell said:
You just can't wait to criticise can you?DaveMehmet said: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.
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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....0
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I no longer use Southeastern trains at the weekend due to the poor service, i use the DLR instead.0
