Back in the bleakness of South East London and Kent, night always follows day and South Eastern being an absolute disgrace on my morning journey to work always follows night.
Checked National Rail before I left home and could see that everything was running between 3 and 20 minutes late for no apparent reason. Made a beeline for the 8.17 from St Johns, which was running a mere 2 minutes late. At 8.21 it still hadn't arrived. South Eastern played a recorded message advising that the 8.17 service was "being delayed". This was really useful, as I would otherwise have presumed that the world had stopped turning at 8.18.
I boarded the late-running 8.21 at 8.25 and arrived at Cannon Street 5 minutes later than I should have done. Not a crisis by any means, but for the amount of money these wankers are stealing off us, I thought some form of explanation might have been forthcoming.
Am now keeping a diary of my travelling experiences with ISIS' only genuine challenger for the position of "Most Loathsome Organisation" on the planet. I plan to post copies of it to the South Eastern CEO and Chris Grayling, Minister for Transport later in the year, accompanied by a shoebox containing a sample of my own personal detritus and a list of my favourite profanities.
@MrLargo I'm not sure of your age, but if you can hang on until you're 60 the NHS send you a nice little kit with which to gather this detritus and even an envelope to post it with. Could be useful to send to the MoT.
Back in the bleakness of South East London and Kent, night always follows day and South Eastern being an absolute disgrace on my morning journey to work always follows night.
Checked National Rail before I left home and could see that everything was running between 3 and 20 minutes late for no apparent reason. Made a beeline for the 8.17 from St Johns, which was running a mere 2 minutes late. At 8.21 it still hadn't arrived. South Eastern played a recorded message advising that the 8.17 service was "being delayed". This was really useful, as I would otherwise have presumed that the world had stopped turning at 8.18.
I boarded the late-running 8.21 at 8.25 and arrived at Cannon Street 5 minutes later than I should have done. Not a crisis by any means, but for the amount of money these wankers are stealing off us, I thought some form of explanation might have been forthcoming.
Am now keeping a diary of my travelling experiences with ISIS' only genuine challenger for the position of "Most Loathsome Organisation" on the planet. I plan to post copies of it to the South Eastern CEO and Chris Grayling, Minister for Transport later in the year, accompanied by a shoebox containing a sample of my own personal detritus and a list of my favourite profanities.
@MrLargo I'm not sure of your age, but if you can hang on until you're 60 the NHS send you a nice little kit with which to gather this detritus and even an envelope to post it with. Could be useful to send to the MoT.
37 years old mate. As frugal/miserly as I am, I'm not willing to delay my act of retribution by 23 years just to save on postage!
Back in the bleakness of South East London and Kent, night always follows day and South Eastern being an absolute disgrace on my morning journey to work always follows night.
Checked National Rail before I left home and could see that everything was running between 3 and 20 minutes late for no apparent reason. Made a beeline for the 8.17 from St Johns, which was running a mere 2 minutes late. At 8.21 it still hadn't arrived. South Eastern played a recorded message advising that the 8.17 service was "being delayed". This was really useful, as I would otherwise have presumed that the world had stopped turning at 8.18.
I boarded the late-running 8.21 at 8.25 and arrived at Cannon Street 5 minutes later than I should have done. Not a crisis by any means, but for the amount of money these wankers are stealing off us, I thought some form of explanation might have been forthcoming.
Am now keeping a diary of my travelling experiences with ISIS' only genuine challenger for the position of "Most Loathsome Organisation" on the planet. I plan to post copies of it to the South Eastern CEO and Chris Grayling, Minister for Transport later in the year, accompanied by a shoebox containing a sample of my own personal detritus and a list of my favourite profanities.
@MrLargo I'm not sure of your age, but if you can hang on until you're 60 the NHS send you a nice little kit with which to gather this detritus and even an envelope to post it with. Could be useful to send to the MoT.
37 years old mate. As frugal/miserly as I am, I'm not willing to delay my act of retribution by 23 years just to save on postage!
37!!!!!!!! Jesus you are going to be one miserable son of a bitch by the time you are 60
Back in the bleakness of South East London and Kent, night always follows day and South Eastern being an absolute disgrace on my morning journey to work always follows night.
Checked National Rail before I left home and could see that everything was running between 3 and 20 minutes late for no apparent reason. Made a beeline for the 8.17 from St Johns, which was running a mere 2 minutes late. At 8.21 it still hadn't arrived. South Eastern played a recorded message advising that the 8.17 service was "being delayed". This was really useful, as I would otherwise have presumed that the world had stopped turning at 8.18.
I boarded the late-running 8.21 at 8.25 and arrived at Cannon Street 5 minutes later than I should have done. Not a crisis by any means, but for the amount of money these wankers are stealing off us, I thought some form of explanation might have been forthcoming.
Am now keeping a diary of my travelling experiences with ISIS' only genuine challenger for the position of "Most Loathsome Organisation" on the planet. I plan to post copies of it to the South Eastern CEO and Chris Grayling, Minister for Transport later in the year, accompanied by a shoebox containing a sample of my own personal detritus and a list of my favourite profanities.
@MrLargo I'm not sure of your age, but if you can hang on until you're 60 the NHS send you a nice little kit with which to gather this detritus and even an envelope to post it with. Could be useful to send to the MoT.
37 years old mate. As frugal/miserly as I am, I'm not willing to delay my act of retribution by 23 years just to save on postage!
I'll send you mine it it would help.
Including my own, extremely fragrant excrement....
Back in the bleakness of South East London and Kent, night always follows day and South Eastern being an absolute disgrace on my morning journey to work always follows night.
Checked National Rail before I left home and could see that everything was running between 3 and 20 minutes late for no apparent reason. Made a beeline for the 8.17 from St Johns, which was running a mere 2 minutes late. At 8.21 it still hadn't arrived. South Eastern played a recorded message advising that the 8.17 service was "being delayed". This was really useful, as I would otherwise have presumed that the world had stopped turning at 8.18.
I boarded the late-running 8.21 at 8.25 and arrived at Cannon Street 5 minutes later than I should have done. Not a crisis by any means, but for the amount of money these wankers are stealing off us, I thought some form of explanation might have been forthcoming.
Am now keeping a diary of my travelling experiences with ISIS' only genuine challenger for the position of "Most Loathsome Organisation" on the planet. I plan to post copies of it to the South Eastern CEO and Chris Grayling, Minister for Transport later in the year, accompanied by a shoebox containing a sample of my own personal detritus and a list of my favourite profanities.
@MrLargo I'm not sure of your age, but if you can hang on until you're 60 the NHS send you a nice little kit with which to gather this detritus and even an envelope to post it with. Could be useful to send to the MoT.
37 years old mate. As frugal/miserly as I am, I'm not willing to delay my act of retribution by 23 years just to save on postage!
I'll send you mine it it would help.
Including my own, extremely fragrant excrement....
I presumed your sample had already been sent First Class to Sheffield!
My train was 4 minutes early, yet again, this morning. Ashford / Charing Cross It thought I would try and bring some balance to this thread.
Come on here gloating again and you'll get a flag!
To be fair you probably deserve some sympathy as to get there 4 mins early it would have probably had to have left half an hour early. In which case you missed your train and are still in Ashford banging your head against a wall.
My train was 4 minutes early, yet again, this morning. Ashford / Charing Cross It thought I would try and bring some balance to this thread.
I imagine you more than lose those 4 minutes travelling all the way to Ashford station from Keston each morning be fair. :-)
Both of you, as Charlton supporters, should know how train lines are listed. I named the Ashford to Charing Cross line/train. It doesn’t mean I travel from Ashford. I get on at Orpington 25 minutes off at Charing Cross. It does have its downside, I more often than not have to share a table with at least one other person. I know I run the risk of a flag on this thread being so positive so just letting you all know my train arrived at Orpington tonight at 17:17 and it should have been there at 17:16, it’s not all beer and skittles on my line.
My train was 4 minutes early, yet again, this morning. Ashford / Charing Cross It thought I would try and bring some balance to this thread.
There is no place for positivity on this thread. If you want to publish pro-South Eastern Trains propaganda then I suggest you start a separate thread. In fact, you could do a combined thread - "Great Journeys with South Eastern", "My Favourite Things About Katrien Meire", "Memories of Palace and Millwall's Greatest Trophy Victories" and "Likeable things about Alan Pardew".
Call it "Tossers United" or "The Tumbleweed Thread" or something like that
Point taken, it won’t happen again. As you can see above, my train home was late. I feel my fellow commuters pain.
Back in the bleakness of South East London and Kent, night always follows day and South Eastern being an absolute disgrace on my morning journey to work always follows night.
Checked National Rail before I left home and could see that everything was running between 3 and 20 minutes late for no apparent reason. Made a beeline for the 8.17 from St Johns, which was running a mere 2 minutes late. At 8.21 it still hadn't arrived. South Eastern played a recorded message advising that the 8.17 service was "being delayed". This was really useful, as I would otherwise have presumed that the world had stopped turning at 8.18.
I boarded the late-running 8.21 at 8.25 and arrived at Cannon Street 5 minutes later than I should have done. Not a crisis by any means, but for the amount of money these wankers are stealing off us, I thought some form of explanation might have been forthcoming.
Am now keeping a diary of my travelling experiences with ISIS' only genuine challenger for the position of "Most Loathsome Organisation" on the planet. I plan to post copies of it to the South Eastern CEO and Chris Grayling, Minister for Transport later in the year, accompanied by a shoebox containing a sample of my own personal detritus and a list of my favourite profanities.
@MrLargo I'm not sure of your age, but if you can hang on until you're 60 the NHS send you a nice little kit with which to gather this detritus and even an envelope to post it with. Could be useful to send to the MoT.
37 years old mate. As frugal/miserly as I am, I'm not willing to delay my act of retribution by 23 years just to save on postage!
I'll send you mine it it would help.
Including my own, extremely fragrant excrement....
All joking aside Fanny I never assumed the kits were sent to women. I thought the big bowl cancer push was aimed at men.
Back in the bleakness of South East London and Kent, night always follows day and South Eastern being an absolute disgrace on my morning journey to work always follows night.
Checked National Rail before I left home and could see that everything was running between 3 and 20 minutes late for no apparent reason. Made a beeline for the 8.17 from St Johns, which was running a mere 2 minutes late. At 8.21 it still hadn't arrived. South Eastern played a recorded message advising that the 8.17 service was "being delayed". This was really useful, as I would otherwise have presumed that the world had stopped turning at 8.18.
I boarded the late-running 8.21 at 8.25 and arrived at Cannon Street 5 minutes later than I should have done. Not a crisis by any means, but for the amount of money these wankers are stealing off us, I thought some form of explanation might have been forthcoming.
Am now keeping a diary of my travelling experiences with ISIS' only genuine challenger for the position of "Most Loathsome Organisation" on the planet. I plan to post copies of it to the South Eastern CEO and Chris Grayling, Minister for Transport later in the year, accompanied by a shoebox containing a sample of my own personal detritus and a list of my favourite profanities.
@MrLargo I'm not sure of your age, but if you can hang on until you're 60 the NHS send you a nice little kit with which to gather this detritus and even an envelope to post it with. Could be useful to send to the MoT.
37 years old mate. As frugal/miserly as I am, I'm not willing to delay my act of retribution by 23 years just to save on postage!
I'll send you mine it it would help.
Including my own, extremely fragrant excrement....
All joking aside Fanny I never assumed the kits were sent to women. I thought the big bowl cancer push was aimed at men.
Not at all, Mike.
The colon /bowel cancer early diagnosis kit is there for both sexes.
I’d just like to congratulate Southeastern for having reduced services down the Woolwich line during the engineering works by a) fewer services per hour into London b ) fewer carriages c) limiting to Cannon Street only and stopping servicing Waterloo and Charing Cross
But even more I congratulate them on then not even commenting on why, now the engine seeing works at London Bridge are completed, they continue to run this lower grade service despite the significant upgrades to the track layout around London Bridge.
Been trying to work out why my trains have been even more busy than usual since christmas. I think it must be something to do with the opening of London bridge. I can only assume it means they are running less of some services from Gillingham/Chatham into some London stations so everyone is getting my train to Victoria.
Today started badly for me. Within just a few minutes of leaving the house, someone had said "F*%k you!" to me. They said "f#*k you" by delaying the 7.50 from St Johns to Cannon Street by 7 minutes and then failing to provide any comment whatsoever regarding its mysterious disappearance. We eventually rolled into Cannon Street 6 minutes late, still without an explanation and they couldn't even be bothered to treat us to an airing of the recorded "we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause".
According to the National Rail App, which is a far better source of information than any of the staff or technology employed by South Eastern, the delay was caused by "congestion." That can't be right though, because we were told the hugely expensive and disruptive Thameslink Programme would get rid of that issue.
That's a cumulative delay of 11 minutes so far this week. Tossers.
As well as the delays, can you find room to comment on the bad habits of commuters...constant coughing, picking noses, booming voices on mobiles, snoring, general smells, hot food smells, bikes, rucksacks, massive suitcases etc.
As well as the delays, can you find room to comment on the bad habits of commuters...constant coughing, picking noses, booming voices on mobiles, snoring, general smells, hot food smells, bikes, rucksacks, massive suitcases etc.
Focus on the Sidcup line if you can.
There is a lady on my (Thameslink) train, that talks on her mobile and puts her make-up on at the same time, a poison double.
Also, this train is delayed everyday by late running southeastern services that are given priority. Mind blowing.
I asked the bloke next to me to close his legs to day so I could get half my arse on to the chair... quite rude he was for a professional looking bloke.
Don't spread your legs lads, is there really any need to sit next to a woman pretending you've got big balls. It's rude.
I asked the bloke next to me to close his legs to day so I could get half my arse on to the chair... quite rude he was for a professional looking bloke.
Don't spread your legs lads, is there really any need to sit next to a woman pretending you've got big balls. It's rude.
For this very reason I ensure I tuck my package into my sock allowing me to close my legs a bit more and be courteous to my fellow passengers.
As well as the delays, can you find room to comment on the bad habits of commuters...constant coughing, picking noses, booming voices on mobiles, snoring, general smells, hot food smells, bikes, rucksacks, massive suitcases etc.
Focus on the Sidcup line if you can.
I travelled on the Sidcup line today as my usual train was delayed - had a nose picker and a smelly food eater on the same carriage!
As well as the delays, can you find room to comment on the bad habits of commuters...constant coughing, picking noses, booming voices on mobiles, snoring, general smells, hot food smells, bikes, rucksacks, massive suitcases etc.
Focus on the Sidcup line if you can.
I travelled on the Sidcup line today as my usual train was delayed - had a nose picker and a smelly food eater on the same carriage!
They were clearly diverted from the Bexleyheath line.
I asked the bloke next to me to close his legs to day so I could get half my arse on to the chair... quite rude he was for a professional looking bloke.
Don't spread your legs lads, is there really any need to sit next to a woman pretending you've got big balls. It's rude.
I asked the bloke next to me to close his legs to day so I could get half my arse on to the chair... quite rude he was for a professional looking bloke.
Don't spread your legs lads, is there really any need to sit next to a woman pretending you've got big balls. It's rude.
Had a similar thing happen to me a while back. A young lady asked me to close my legs a bit so she could get her arse on the seat. I politely told her she'd probably need two seats for that arse.
It was tough having to explain to my wife and kids why I had a big red hand mark across my face when I got home.
Slightly related but does anyone here use or go through Bromley South?. They manage to have a "train dispatcher" on each of the 4 platforms whose job is to hold up a green flag at the driver's window giving him the OK to pull away. Stuff that modern signalling technology eh?
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Including my own, extremely fragrant excrement....
I don’t know how to process the feeling, unbelievable.
I know I run the risk of a flag on this thread being so positive so just letting you all know my train arrived at Orpington tonight at 17:17 and it should have been there at 17:16, it’s not all beer and skittles on my line. Point taken, it won’t happen again. As you can see above, my train home was late. I feel my fellow commuters pain.
The colon /bowel cancer early diagnosis kit is there for both sexes.
9am next Monday morning, South Eastern's Head Office on Blackfriars Road. I'll supply the Viagra, you know what to do.
But even more I congratulate them on then not even commenting on why, now the engine seeing works at London Bridge are completed, they continue to run this lower grade service despite the significant upgrades to the track layout around London Bridge.
Fuckers.
Makes for a much more pleasant journey in.
Today started badly for me. Within just a few minutes of leaving the house, someone had said "F*%k you!" to me. They said "f#*k you" by delaying the 7.50 from St Johns to Cannon Street by 7 minutes and then failing to provide any comment whatsoever regarding its mysterious disappearance. We eventually rolled into Cannon Street 6 minutes late, still without an explanation and they couldn't even be bothered to treat us to an airing of the recorded "we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause".
According to the National Rail App, which is a far better source of information than any of the staff or technology employed by South Eastern, the delay was caused by "congestion." That can't be right though, because we were told the hugely expensive and disruptive Thameslink Programme would get rid of that issue.
That's a cumulative delay of 11 minutes so far this week. Tossers.
Focus on the Sidcup line if you can.
When I used to commute from New Eltham I was waiting for the day when somebody came out of the bog and declared a ten minutes warning.
Also, this train is delayed everyday by late running southeastern services that are given priority. Mind blowing.
Don't spread your legs lads, is there really any need to sit next to a woman pretending you've got big balls. It's rude.
It was tough having to explain to my wife and kids why I had a big red hand mark across my face when I got home.