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Not in London today. How has the new timetable affected things ? Will be interested in how it goes this evening as southbound journeys in the evening rush hour have been particularly awful.

Redhill/Reigate services are probably even worse than we get from Brighton and around.....full trains from either direction and loads of cancellations. Always a scrum there in the morning to get seats. Came down the M23 on Tuesday....cameras are already up Southbound. Obviously no actual work...

It was ok earlier, more or less on time into London Bridge this morning. Last week 5/6 journeys I made were ****ed up, so not expecting an easy trip home tonight.

Nope, that’s a nailed on, Grade A work from home instruction.

Got the 18.06 from London Bridge. I arrived at 17.55 and could’ve got on the delayed 17.15 that hadn’t arrived but of course there were about half a million people trying to get on it. This one then stayed on the platform for 15 mins as staff tried to get everyone waiting behind the yellow line...

Worse even than that.....I’ve just got on one of the running services at Wivelsfield (to London Bridge) which is now being terminated at Haywards Heath due to a ‘fault’.

Been declassified during peak hours on Thameslink at the moment anyway......and on loads of trains on an ad-hoc basis due to the overcrowding

Captive market with no option/alternative..........

Think you’re right.....presumably much lower volume of trains and passengers on the move, so less likely that a minor problem will cause such a dramatic effect across the network which during the week is presumably scheduled to be absolutely at the capacity limit. According to the driver (just...

Well at this rate we’re never going to catch them.....

Second day in London this week, and guess what...... Checked app, nearly everything cancelled at London Bridge, so went across town to Victoria in plenty of time to catch 19:16 Littlehampton/Eastbourne train. Met with loads of delays and cancellations on the board at Victoria. Left 15 mins...

Agreed. Most of the ferals seem to be around Croydon of course. The recent new timetable intro etc has been a total disaster though, and most of that is down to extremely poor planning/management. No way in the world I would go back to 5 day a week commuting now, don't know how people put up...

What did we all sow ? All I've done is bought a ticket and turned hope in the faint hope an advertised service might get me where I need to go, within something like the time expected. It's been shit for 30 years (I can't comment before then as I wasn't a 'customer'), Tory, Labour, unions, no...

Appreciate the insight - always good to hear from those inside - Deadly Danson provides regular insightful stuff too. As for Caulfield trying to curry some favour with a few constituents by tweeting that she'll 'be raising the matter' - she can ****ing do one. It's hardly new news.

I spent a few years commuting in and out of Vic and it was always far more civilised, even in the crap (crappier, equally crap ? I dunno any more) years in the 90s Completely correct. The new TL trains, whilst being more roomy (ie more standing space), are very uncomfortable. The through...

Yes, but Ooop North........ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44647812

Caught the 18.05 at London Bridge which was incredibly more or less on time, but passengers were at least 4-deep on the platform, and it was standing room only when the train pulled in anyway (as is usually the case now with the 'through trains', so nowhere near everyone got on. I was squashed...

Most of the trains now are actually pretty new (and the TL trains are brand new)........problem is the crumbling, underinvested infrastructure and utterly useless management of the franchise.

This, but today was unfortunately that day. Got turfed off at Three Bridges, now stuck between Balcombe and H Heath. My lad is on an earlier train and has been near/at H Heath for over half an hour. Mid 90s were still the worst IMO. Awful, unsafe (slam door), crowded, antique trains running...