pasty
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Best check before leaving this morning. Derailment at Victoria
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[Travel] !!! WARNING !!! Victoria Commuters
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Palacefinder General
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- Apr 5, 2019
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Thanks for heads up. First time of heading up to Victoria in a year and I pick today! Reduced service until midday apparently.
Luckily noticed before I left home so jumped on the Thameslink that leaves Hassocks 7 minutes before my usual train and made my connection at Gatwick (the Thameslink train gets overtaken by the GA at Haywards Heath normally).
I was only thinking yesterday that it’s been pretty reliable recently!
I was only thinking yesterday that it’s been pretty reliable recently!
Knock on effects on my line via Kent. Even the 'high speed' trains to St Pancreas affected. Luckily I can pretend to work from home.
RandyWanger
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- Jun 27, 2012
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I'm on the 8.30 from Plumpton. Its going to be about 5 mins late into Victoria.
Derailment is near Victoria apparently so only impacting platforms 9-13 (including the Gatwick Express which isn't running). Most others should be more or less 'normal' (whatever that means for Southern Fail)
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Palacefinder General
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Currently stuck at Haywards Heath.
Postman Pat
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I only travel from Moulsecoomb to Brighton every day, but the first thing I do is check if the trains are running OK, yet the amount of regular London commuters that don't bother to check before they leave home always astounds me.
I was chatting to someone I regularly see in the morning and she had no idea, and another person on the train overheard and asked what was happening, when I told them they said "no point trying then I may as well go home", well if they checked the app they would have been aware and not bothered in the first place.
I was chatting to someone I regularly see in the morning and she had no idea, and another person on the train overheard and asked what was happening, when I told them they said "no point trying then I may as well go home", well if they checked the app they would have been aware and not bothered in the first place.
pasty
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A lot of it depends on how good peoples work are about them not going in. Some will go to the station on the off-chance of something running. I "probably" could have got to the office today by going up to London Bridge instead of Victoria, walking to Liverpool Street, then getting a train from there to Tottenham where I work, but it's a real bugger of a journey, and I can't be arsed with it. Fortunately I'm ok to wfh at the slightest sign of rail trouble.