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This. Totally. It's every delay-conscious commuter's anxiety-trigger announcement by the driver: 'Can the guard contact the driver please'. It's never good news.

No guards on Thameslink then? Never knew that. Would explain why Southern want to do away with them to create a level playing field. Doesn't make it right though.

Seems to me there should be two separate job titles. In fact there probably are. The guard looks after the well-being of the passengers, ensures it's ding-ding safe for the driver to pull away from smaller stations (unlike, say, East Croydon, where it needs several blokes with paddleboards and...

The trouble is, SASTA get away with something that up-furks their customers majorly. There's no meaningful repercussions. Then they try to get away with something a little bit more up-furkery, that would be unacceptable in any other industry. Again there's no meaningful repercussions. Who could...

Probably just puts it in the wicker basket

That's not the point tho eh? Should be able to count on a timed train that only set off half a mile down the track.

Preston Park to Burgess Hill is ten minutes on the train. Should be an absolute no-brainer. Still never leave the house before checking National Rail 'Live Departures' to check for screw-ups. It's just second nature by now.

Good point, well made ENREST :thumbsup:

The only thing that gets people to/from work in this part of the country most of the time is the sheer volume of trains. There's no way you could ever rely on a specific train, you just jump on the one that randomly arrives that's going in the general direction you require. You end up, more...

It's got to the point whereby if I'm flying from Gatwick, I'll get a train from Preston Park about four hours before my flight time, even though its only supposed to be half an hour up the track. Just don't trust these buggers an inch anymore and always factor in the likelihood of them...

While I was waiting for a train from Preston park to Burgess Hill about 2pm today they announced that the westbound line had been snookered by some kind of line blocking shit between Shoreham and Hove, buses accepting train tickets blah blah etc. So basically the SASTA tvvats managed this...

Most commuters are creatures of habit down to leaving the house at exactly the same time to occupying exactly the same spot on the platform to catching exactly the same train every working day. Should be perfectly feasible software-wise for that train to be lodged in advance by the commuter as...

Reckon they do it deliberately as a not-so-gentle reminder that they OWN your sorry ass for another year. :moo:

At what point in our nation's history did some twunt of a rail 'regulator' decide that 29 minutes late was any kind of acceptable failure? It really is beyond pathetic. Worst thing is, people in this country just sort of shrug it off as being down to the fact that our trains are, always have...