Not SER, but you will like this one I think. I am right now at Ebbsfleet, sitting on a Eurostar. It arrived a few minutes late, and we were then told that it would wait here a few minutes , because there was a problem with a passenger. That was at 9.45. Ten minutes later, they updated. They were waiting for the police - explicitly not ambulance - to come and take the passenger away. They just now said that they are still waiting for plod to actually arrive.
You have to suppose, that the passenger is not wielding a knife or a gun, and that this is the reason why plod are taking their time at 10.00 on a Saturday morning. But it's slightly concerning that they cannot get to a strategically important site like this a bit quicker.
Update, 10.09, they have arrived now. I make that almost half an hour to respond.
But the roads maybe icy and have speed restrictions or perhaps arresting someone for calling somebody a naughty word.
The roads are just fine. My sister drove me down the A2 from Eltham.
I am really surprised that they don't have transport police actually at the station.
Fortunately I have 3 hours connection time in Paris, but some people will already be shafted. We don't know what was with the passenger, presumably just drunk, a heroic effort on a train departing London around 09.30. But I thought this country was supposed to be permanently on a state of high alert?
You're posting twice Prague! How many have you had???
No more coach 9 for you today!!!
Don't get me started. It's the sodding wifi. Not only does it not work, it seems to screw up the LTE if you switch out of wifi. At Ebbsfleet I bought the eBook rough guide to Paris. Been trying to get the download finished ever since. I' m less than an hour from Paris, FFS.
Ah well, first world problems. I'll just wander around and see if I can find some gilets jaunes :-)
Trespasser on the lines at Charlton, good luck to anyone going home that way, as inevitably it'll take 3 hours to clear, by which time Lewisham would have had a signal fault.
There's something on the news at the moment of body camera footage of SE railway staff getting death threats and physical abuse from punters. No matter how bad the service can be there's no need for any of that.
There's something on the news at the moment of body camera footage of SE railway staff getting death threats and physical abuse from punters. No matter how bad the service can be there's no need for any of that.
Pretty grim.
The bloke (Danny) jumping the bridge was at Plumstead,
There's something on the news at the moment of body camera footage of SE railway staff getting death threats and physical abuse from punters. No matter how bad the service can be there's no need for any of that.
Pretty grim.
The bloke (Danny) jumping the bridge was at Plumstead,
I came into work today and yesterday on SouthEastern. Trains on time, no crush and not too hot. Lovely. I recommend the 10.30ish from Plumstead to London Bridge. Then the tube to Angel was brilliant as well, as was the 73 to Stoke Newington. All in all lovely commutes. ;-)
Southeastern have just announced that due to the possibility of maybe finding a WW2 bomb within 20 miles from a train track (possibly even in the southeast), they are going to run a Sunday service with all carriage lengths being reduced to just 4 until further notice.
Southeastern have just announced that due to the possibility of maybe finding a WW2 bomb within 20 miles from a train track (possibly even in the southeast), they are going to run a Sunday service with all carriage lengths being reduced to just 4 until further notice.
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I am really surprised that they don't have transport police actually at the station.
Fortunately I have 3 hours connection time in Paris, but some people will already be shafted. We don't know what was with the passenger, presumably just drunk, a heroic effort on a train departing London around 09.30. But I thought this country was supposed to be permanently on a state of high alert?
No more coach 9 for you today!!!
It's the sodding wifi. Not only does it not work, it seems to screw up the LTE if you switch out of wifi. At Ebbsfleet I bought the eBook rough guide to Paris. Been trying to get the download finished ever since. I' m less than an hour from Paris, FFS.
Ah well, first world problems. I'll just wander around and see if I can find some gilets jaunes :-)
Pretty grim.
Good news! SE Motion is now available across all our services.
We are excited to be the first transport operator in the UK to offer Prime Original shows and Kobo books to our passengers.
Pity they can't give their trains a bit more motion!!
I recommend the 10.30ish from Plumstead to London Bridge.
Then the tube to Angel was brilliant as well, as was the 73 to Stoke Newington.
All in all lovely commutes.
;-)