Train Problems This Evening - London and Lewes

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HawkTheSeagull

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• Jul 22, 2013

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Trains are all cocked up at the moment - big signalling problem at London Bridge causing 1 hour delays.

And you can't really use Victoria as there is 45 minute delays via Selhurst due to safety checks on the line.

And there is also track circuit failures affecting signalling at Lewes causing 20 minute delays.

Good luck to those using trains this evening !!

 

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Wardy

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• Jul 22, 2013

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HawkTheSeagull said:

Trains are all cocked up at the moment - big signalling problem at London Bridge causing 1 hour delays.

And you can't really use Victoria as there is 45 minute delays via Selhurst due to safety checks on the line.

And there is also track circuit failures affecting signalling at Lewes causing 20 minute delays.

Good luck to those using trains this evening !!

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At least they are real problems instead of the normal stuff like "Wrong kind of sun in the sky"

 

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HawkTheSeagull

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Wardy said:

At least they are real problems instead of the normal stuff like "Wrong kind of sun in the sky"

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You say that - the Selhurst problems are apparently down to reports of problems with the track - probably down to 50C + temperatures in the rails !!

 

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• Jul 22, 2013

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HawkTheSeagull said:

You say that - the Selhurst problems are apparently down to reports of problems with the track - probably down to 50C + temperatures in the rails !!

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I can confirm there are delays everywhere. Also that your chances of an airconditioned carriage are 50/50, that leaves fall in autumn, that there's a good chance of snow and frost in the winter and that bears occasioinally take a dump near trees.

 

Lord Bracknell

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• Jul 22, 2013

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Got an email alert at work today, telling me that Network Rail are closing my road overnight tonight to get access to the railway for repair work to be done.

 

Tom Hark Preston Park

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• Jul 22, 2013

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To be fair though, the trains have pretty much played a blinder during the current hot spell.

 

Herr Tubthumper

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• Jul 22, 2013

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Tom Hark said:

To be fair though, the trains have pretty much played a blinder during the current hot spell.

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Played a blinder? Do you mean they have done what they were supposed to have done?

 

Tom Hark Preston Park

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Herr Tubthumper said:

Played a blinder? Do you mean they have done what they were supposed to have done?

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Yes. Yes I do mean that. So unusual as to be praiseworthy.

 

Gazwag

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• Jul 22, 2013

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One thing I don't understand is if there is a 1 hour delay, as long as you were not waiting for the first train that was delayed surely you wouldn't notice as the train you normally catch is the same time, just the train that was suppose to go an hour later

 

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• Jul 22, 2013

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Gazwag said:

One thing I don't understand is if there is a 1 hour delay, as long as you were not waiting for the first train that was delayed surely you wouldn't notice as the train you normally catch is the same time, just the train that was suppose to go an hour later

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Well yeah, except that if the preceding train arrives just before the train scheduled an hour later, it then means you will be stuck behind it on the way home, unless you are lucky enough to have a train skipping some of the stations the preceding train is calling at.