Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Anybody have a clue what is wrong with the trains to London today - all cancelled from Shoreham-by-Sea at present...........
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Sergei's Celebration
Well-known member
Lightening strike on some signal stuff towards littlehampton
London trains running straight through empty. No idea how that is justified.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
There also seems to be a problem at Angmering according to their Twitter feed.
Edit to add, that is the lightening strike mentioned earlier.
Edit to add, that is the lightening strike mentioned earlier.
Zukey Seagull
Well-known member
Land slide in oxted. Causing the line to be closed.
http://www.southernrailway.com
http://www.southernrailway.com
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Angmering. That's where the lightning struck apparently
Seem to be running a lot of London trains fast and missing stations.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Wish I had the option!
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
A lot of my fellow commuters seemed to be waiting for direct London trains, and it turns out would have failed, given they kept getting cancelled.
I took a risk, and got on a train that went to Worthing, then straight to Brighton, and then jumped on a lovely Gatwick Express to London Bridge.
Only got in the office 20 minutes late, and quite enjoyed a nice snooze.
I took a risk, and got on a train that went to Worthing, then straight to Brighton, and then jumped on a lovely Gatwick Express to London Bridge.
Only got in the office 20 minutes late, and quite enjoyed a nice snooze.
I'm heading back to Scumhampton. The 1033's been cancelled, so having to go via Clapham.
As an aside, there's a load of surface water between Patcham and Clayton tunnels on the right hand side as you head north. I'm sure NR must be aware of it, but it didn't look like it would take much rain to flood the track.
As an aside, there's a load of surface water between Patcham and Clayton tunnels on the right hand side as you head north. I'm sure NR must be aware of it, but it didn't look like it would take much rain to flood the track.
HawkTheSeagull
New member
They run fast so they can get into London on time and so they won't start the next service as late.
Screws people over who want to get to London from cancelled stations, but reduces delays for most others.
PS - weather is going to get worse through the day, expect more issues.
Tricky Dicky
New member
Got the usual 6:22 but it was running 11 mins late by the time it got to SBS, I already knew the 7:01 was cancelled. We were slow all the way up, and got terminated at Eat Croydon. Squeezed on another to LB, but he train in front had a "passenger alarm" so, we sat at a red signal for 20 mins. Got to work an hour late, so delay claim went straight in.
This service is really pathetic, running trains through stations they're supposed to stop at, terminating early etc. - so many BAD excuses, the real problems get lost in the noise. I'm so fed up with the service we're getting (or NOT getting) for the money.
Or the real reason - that it nicely massages Southern's performance stats...
HawkTheSeagull
New member
That too, also reduces delay repay claims which saves them money.
Tricky Dicky
New member
From a customer perspective, there just doesn't seem to be any logic or common sense applied. Ignoring any knock on effect through the day, if you take my train this morning, they would rather throw a train packed with people off at East Croydon (quite dangerously on to an already busy platform), and make hundreds of people even more late, and get the return journey on time - which carries about 8 people back down to Brighton. Surely it would be better for more people to get everyone to London, and just make a handful of people a bit more late.
Aside form the above, when the train arrived at Shoreham it was 20 mins late. We caught up a few mins with the join at Hayward Heath being done quickly, so by the time we left HH we were probably 17 mins late - and they could have made up 2 mins to ensure we were less than 15 mins late at EC, so they wouldn't have to terminate us.
when it blasts through the stations you can see the platforms of your paying customers just standing there in the cold. For these people they will be even more late for work and for what you have said this is so the train back can carry probably 1/7th the amount of people (If that)
Its this lack of customer focus that brings so much grief to Southerns door.
As for the termination when 20 mins late . .. . Why ? Most the people that had to get off probably ultimately got to London an extra 30 + mins later than if the terminated train had just limped in.
Makes no sense