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Southeastern train disruption (franchise to be taken over by Govt p191)

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  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,468
    Circle line suspended & severe delays on District line.
  • CAFC Luke said:

    You'd have thought when they built these things they would have considered the possibility of a bit of rain.

    We are in England you know...


    Delay costing me money now.. starting to get beyond ridiculous...

    It's alright though, because they'll reimburse you 20p for the inconvenience
    As if. On a year long ticket you only get reimbursed of they miss their late targets for the whole rail network over the year. And that's easy to fix. They just cancel trains so they don't run late. Never get any money back.
    I don't think it works like that Canters. They can't dodge delay repay by cancelling the train. If, say, your advertised train was due to arrive at it's destination at 8.30, but the next available train actually got you there at 9.30, you claim an hour.

    The delay repay is pretty shoddy mind, designed to put you off. Scanning your ticket in and enetering all the rest of your journey details to prove you're not a lying ba$tard like them and bingo, in about six weeks you'll get a voucher for about £2; which again you have to fill in your details on the back of it to get the money off of your next overpriced ticket. We should all do it though, as collectively it must add up to a few quid and if we don't they'll think we're not that fussed about it anyway.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,229
    Journey from hell and still not at work.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Curb_It said:

    Journey from hell and still not at work.

    Driver has just said they've lost all control of the signals in the area
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,056

    It's 9.44, I'm currently on the 8.09 from Sidcup which has made it in that time to 'near Lewisham'. Cannon St now closed so will be diverted to Charing X when we do eventually move and tube back from there. If I get in for 11 I'll be surprised

    Good timing @AFKA pub'll be open!

    On way to Leeds for a client meet at the moment. Left myself 2.5 hours to get to Kings X from Woolwich Arsenal...just as well I did.

    A half empty Virgin train is much appreciated after the Tenko conditions on the DLR & Northern Line this morning!
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    I've got off at Hither Green and am gonna fuck off home - if a train ever comes in the other way that is!
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,982
    They've outdone themselves this morning.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,323

    Curb_It said:

    Journey from hell and still not at work.

    Driver has just said they've lost all control of the signals in the area
    Cant the driver do what we all used to do in school when there was a single door which 100 kids were trying to get through.

    i.e. Shout BUNDLE over the radio and just go for it!!
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,020
    The delay pay thing is a waste of time for me as an Oyster user. If I claim, I get a voucher which I cant use on my Oyster card.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    edited June 2016
    Can someone do me a favour and tweet southeastern to ask in there's any danger of a train from Hither Green Kent bound on the sidcup line anytime soon?

    The fellas here can't even tell me if one has left London yet, but someone must know!
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  • JohnBoyUK said:

    The delay pay thing is a waste of time for me as an Oyster user. If I claim, I get a voucher which I cant use on my Oyster card.

    I didn't know that. No wonder they couldn't give a shit.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    On the 0908 from dartford to Victoria which still hasn't arrived and its 1059! Mind you it only stopped at lewisham and I was the only person in the carriage from dartford to lewisham. Bliss. Now I'm stuck outside Victoria with a screaming sprog and a wanker tapping the back of my seat and making a loud self important phone call. Would have stayed at home to work but sky broadband is fucked too. Happy days. Getting home will be a laugh as its supposed to piss down again later. Ho hum. Roland out!!
  • cafckev
    cafckev Posts: 2,914
    Weather warning for this evening rush hour. 5live reporting severe flooding due in SE London from 4pm onwards
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601

    On the 0908 from dartford to Victoria which still hasn't arrived and its 1059! Mind you it only stopped at lewisham and I was the only person in the carriage from dartford to lewisham. Bliss. Now I'm stuck outside Victoria with a screaming sprog and a wanker tapping the back of my seat and making a loud self important phone call. Would have stayed at home to work but sky broadband is fucked too. Happy days. Getting home will be a laugh as its supposed to piss down again later. Ho hum. Roland out!!

    Let one rip.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    My biggest fear with delays is not getting to work or home late but being on a carriage without a toilet.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Putting all this aside for one moment, how's the Bermondsey Dive Under coming along. Brendan, I thought I left you in charge of this ;-)

  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,265
    Heroic effort to make it for the afternoon thwarted. Signal failure at Charlton.terminated. all off. "speak to platform staff for advice on your journey". Except there are none and the station ticket office is closed. Lucky to get something back to north kent. More rain due and they are not recovering. Good luck later folks.
  • Putting all this aside for one moment, how's the Bermondsey Dive Under coming along. Brendan, I thought I left you in charge of this ;-)

    Like everything else with Southeastern m_a_m, slow!!!
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,982
    Basically, if you're looking to get home from London tonight, you're not gonna.
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,435
    Cannon St closed for the foreseeable future due to 'signalling issues'.

    FUCKERS!!!!!!
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  • DLR Is our friend in times like this, always running with no problems so ill catch that to Lewisham then bus it i think.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    Having taken 2.5 hours to get in I looked at the weather forecast and the live train updates and decided to head for the hills. Been at Charing Cross for half an hour and nothing has left. And not a single announcement. Customer service my arse. Dartford train just been announced. God help anyone going home in the rush hour.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,098
    DLR it is then. Annoyingly that adds 5 minutes on to my commute. :angry:
  • Cannon Street shut so I left work early and went to Charing Cross. Mass cancellations there. Station staff clueless, departure boards not reflecting the services that are running. Taken 30 minutes to get from Charing Cross to somewhere between Waterloo East and London Bridge. On a train that will get me halfway home.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    Headed into town around lunchtime and avoided South Useless. Bus, DLR, tube with no issues.

  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Can't take another journey like this morning, currently on DLR.
  • Departed Charing Cross 40 minutes ago. Train is currently stopped beside the closed Platform 4 at London Bridge.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600

    DLR Is our friend in times like this, always running with no problems so ill catch that to Lewisham then bus it i think.

    Unless they get flooding at Lewisham.
  • Still here. Think the driver has nipped out for a fag...