Rail Disruption - Victoria Station Closed

[Virgo's Haircut]

Any peeps thinking about coming back from Victoria in the next few hours. DON'T. The station is closed due to flooding. Use an alternative if you can.

 

[Springal]

got a train at 3.30, just in time

 

[beorhthelm]

got through just in time i think, literaly waterfalls down the columns and over inch of water in places. apparently west bound District was flooded too.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Do you have a link for this info? TFL does not seem to mention it. I was going to email it to a friend who works there and is still in the office.

Chars!

 

[Springal]

National Rail Enquiries - Service Alteration Details

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Legendary. I was being a bit of a plank. Thought the website had crashed, but it was a mispelling on my part.

 

[Lush]

Any peeps thinking about coming back from Victoria in the next few hours. DON'T. The station is closed due to flooding. Use an alternative if you can.

The wrong kind of rain?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

On the subject of flooding stations. When are they going to damp-proof East Croydon? It has leaked for donkeys years. Or is it simply that the yokels steal the coursing or lead or other such materials?

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Has London Bridge closed due to overcrowding yet always did in my day!!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Has London Bridge closed due to overcrowding yet always did in my day!!

Yup, that's the normal pattern. One terminus shuts, the other immediately overcrowds and ends up shutting as well. Oh, and Worst Capital Connect immediately reduce the length of their trains to four carriages just to piss people off even more.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I see Worst Capital Connect are leasing some Southern Trains.

 

[Beach Hut]

Must have just missed this as caught the 17:17 off Victoria tonight

 

[Djmiles]

Got the 4:15 from Victoria and all seemed fine. Glad I missed the chaos!

 

[clapham_gull]

They seemed very confused whether it was open or not. I got into Brighton from London about 5:30 ish, and they were cancelling trains going back up.

Got on a train to "Victoria" around 8, which was diverted to London Bridge midway because of flooding at Victoria. Got off at East Croydon, ( spat on the platform etc...) with a view to getting a train to Balham.

On the other side of the platform was a train heading to Victoria, which I took to Clapham Junction.

Was Victoria closed at any point at all, or was it just a rumour going round the station announcers ?

 

[beorhthelm]

Was Victoria closed at any point at all, or was it just a rumour going round the station announcers ?

defo shut at around 17:35, missus says the gates were closed.

and if you're in Clapham, cant you use a bus? those big red things that go everywhere. or even walk (the leg thing).

 

[clapham_gull]

and if you're in Clapham, cant you use a bus? those big red things that go everywhere. or even walk (the leg thing).

From where ?

 

[beorhthelm]

erm... from victoria... which wasnt where you were was it...

 

[clapham_gull]

erm... from victoria... which wasnt where you were was it...

er.. no.

I did get a bus from Clapham Junction to Clapham, because (as I'm bored of telling people) Clapham Junction isn't in f*cking Clapham.

 

[pasty]

Got off the tube at Victoria at about 5:40 and the mainline station was evacuated and closed. Then about 6ish they evacuated the tube station as well. Finally got on a train about 8 and got home at just gone 10. Bloody nightmare.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

er.. no.

I did get a bus from Clapham Junction to Clapham, because (as I'm bored of telling people) Clapham Junction isn't in f*cking Clapham.

London Gatwick, on a slightly smaller scale.