Lower West Stander
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Be warned. Just started moving after being stationary for an hour
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[Misc] Major Signal Failure at East Croydon
- Thread starter Lower West Stander
- Start date
National Rail advising people not to travel via East Croydon 
https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/238459.aspx
Via Havant on South Western or via Tonbridge or St Leonards on South Eastern.
Don't shoot the messenger....
https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/238459.aspx
Via Havant on South Western or via Tonbridge or St Leonards on South Eastern.
Don't shoot the messenger....
Just left London Bridge using my usual 'anything going South will do' approach when this happens (quite often in 25 years of commuting).
Currently proceeding at normal speed to East Croydon on an East Grinstead train that's over an hour late, but despite hordes of people at LB it's actually not that crowded. Boards at LB were showing virtually everything delayed (with no new time) or cancelled.
Edit.....Brighton train at EC when I arrived, and moving normally. Got lucky.....
Currently proceeding at normal speed to East Croydon on an East Grinstead train that's over an hour late, but despite hordes of people at LB it's actually not that crowded. Boards at LB were showing virtually everything delayed (with no new time) or cancelled.
Edit.....Brighton train at EC when I arrived, and moving normally. Got lucky.....
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HH Brighton
Well-known member
- Jul 25, 2003
- 1,508
Years of under funding, awful management and underhand deals done with the government. At least we haven’t got another 5 years of this ****ing shambles !!!
grubbyhands
Well-known member
Mmmmmm. smacks of scummy pikeys and copper cable theft dontcha think?
pasty
A different kind of pasty
I gave up and went to The Shakespeare. Finally got on a train about 8:30 after getting to Victoria at 5 o'clock.
Common as Mook
Not Posh as Fook
- Jul 26, 2004
- 5,630
What an absolute frigging shambles
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,161
And today the Argus reporting that most trains not stopping at Gatwick Airport due to 'problems with station lighting'. Sake! How many people miss their flights or arrive in a deeply stressed state due to these clowns that are supposed to run a major rail link and would have trouble running a bath. Useless ****s.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18111836.travel-chaos-gatwick-airport-trains/
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18111836.travel-chaos-gatwick-airport-trains/
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Would have been a nationalised railway with cheaper fares but people voted for this chaos
Nothing was stopping at LGW earlier, but shuttle buses were in place from Three Bridges......
Service is still infinitely better than it was in the 90s with its regular strikes, slam-door trains, shortened trains etc etc.
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
The signals might work but the staff would be on strike every 5 minutes.
I am no railway buff, but it sounds as if Network Rail have a part to play in all of this.........lighting failure etc. and they are the Government body tasked with looking after the rail infrastructure, after all.
Can't all be put down to the train operating companies!
I often hear defenders of the train operating companies pointing out that the particular problems are the fault of nationalised National Rail. Could the transport experts on here please advise me if NR has in house construction and maintenance workers or is the work contracted out to privately owned firms?
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,303
most problems these days are Network Rail, unless its a train broken down.
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,417
Got back from holiday just in time phew
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Lush
Mods' Pet
This is why I always leave early for everything. Left Brighton 15.38. Arrived at office Christmas do in Old Street 18.40 just in time for the starter.
blue-shifted
Banned
To be fair mate, I doubt Jezza would have sorted it in a week