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

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  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236

    Departed Charing Cross 40 minutes ago. Train is currently stopped beside the closed Platform 4 at London Bridge.

    Might be on same train mate. Been sitting at London Bridge for thick end of half an hour
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601

    Can't take another journey like this morning, currently on DLR.

    You at Lewisham mate? I'm 2 stops away if you fancy a beer!
  • Driver is flirting with us - departed London Bridge, but stopped at Tower Bridge. Journey time nearly 1 hour.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,982
    Charing Cross is full of trains doing fuck all
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,933

    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.
    For an annual season ticket outside of London to central London that's how I've been told it works..


    I may be misinformed.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,229
    I think anything other than Southeastern is the way home tonight. Be it Jubilee, DLR or boat.

  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,982
    edited June 2016
    On a Bexleyheath train from Charing Cross, it's carnage. People almost coming to blows.

    They must have 90% off their stock not operating and the one that is, they've only made it 6 carriages.

    Complete pricks.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    southeastern are a shower of shit i actually fucking despise them.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601

    On a Bexleyheath train from Charing Cross, it's carnage. People almost coming to blows.

    They must have 90% off their stock not operating and the one that is, they've only made it 6 carriages.

    Complete pricks.

    Normal day on the Bexleyheath line then
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,933
    So after leaving home this morning at 7:30 and not getting to work till 10:30 I decided to leave work early to make sure I get home. Things are still well and truly fucked. What a shambles..

    I am gonna have to work from home all evening just to make up for the time spent sitting on a train all day...

    What annoyed me most about this morning is there were no warnings. If they had told me at my station (or at any of the station between home and victoria) I could have turned round and gone home and worked from my bed. But nope. They didn't tell us until we were in a queue of 25 odd trains waiting for the 3 available platforms in this half of Victoria.

    Absolute joke. And I know they knew it was bad, as I spoke to someone who gets the same train as me just an hour earlier and she had the same problem. All they had to do is pass the message on then they could cut down on the number of passed off people on their already too short and overcrowded trains.

    Incompetence at its finest.
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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    Just go on a 321 at Lewisham with AFKA, charlton life bus wankers
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825

    Can't take another journey like this morning, currently on DLR.

    You at Lewisham mate? I'm 2 stops away if you fancy a beer!
    Well guess who I've bumped into :-)
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    Bring back steam trains!
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,933
    As we are so good at organising protests any chance we could organise some against southeastern?

    Not sure throwing beach balls at a train will do much. Might have to get inventive...
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,982
    Hahaha nearly a massive brawl at Waterloo East. Someone tried getting on and was stopping the train from moving so a couple of blokes kicked him off. Everyone cheered.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    Curb_It said:

    I think anything other than Southeastern is the way home tonight. Be it Jubilee, DLR or boat.

    Boat down the A2 should be ok.
  • MarkyE83
    MarkyE83 Posts: 210

    On a Bexleyheath train from Charing Cross, it's carnage. People almost coming to blows.

    They must have 90% off their stock not operating and the one that is, they've only made it 6 carriages.

    Complete pricks.

    I'm on that sauna as well. The windows open the width of a knat's cock. Hot!

  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,982
    MarkyE83 said:

    On a Bexleyheath train from Charing Cross, it's carnage. People almost coming to blows.

    They must have 90% off their stock not operating and the one that is, they've only made it 6 carriages.

    Complete pricks.

    I'm on that sauna as well. The windows open the width of a knat's cock. Hot!

    It's a joke how hot it is on here. Quite good entertainment tho watching people lose it.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,933
    MarkyE83 said:

    On a Bexleyheath train from Charing Cross, it's carnage. People almost coming to blows.

    They must have 90% off their stock not operating and the one that is, they've only made it 6 carriages.

    Complete pricks.

    I'm on that sauna as well. The windows open the width of a knat's cock. Hot!

    At least your windows open. I'm on one of those in between trains. Not the new ones where the air con actually works. But not the old ones where the windows open. So no windows and air con with the blowing power of a dead ant.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    Nearing dartford and just I time for my walk home it's started pissing down. You got ta just laugh sometimes. Working from home tomorrow. Can't face this malarkey again.
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  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,565
    40 mins from Waterloo East to London Bridge. Train to Battle currently 90 mins behind schedule.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,565
    My 5.5k is money well spent.
  • Redvalleyeast
    Redvalleyeast Posts: 4,690

    40 mins from Waterloo East to London Bridge. Train to Battle currently 90 mins behind schedule.

    Got a fight on your hands there :neutral:
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,982
    Young girl just completely collapsed on my carriage. It could be the heat, it could be that she saw how good looking I am.

  • Young girl just completely collapsed on my carriage. It could be the heat, it could be that she saw how good looking I am.

    or the fact that you just got your cock out and shoved it in her face!!
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,982

    Young girl just completely collapsed on my carriage. It could be the heat, it could be that she saw how good looking I am.

    or the fact that you just got your cock out and shoved it in her face!!
    That was after she collapsed
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,229
    Just on the boat with a little wine in hand.
    Lovely.
  • cafckev
    cafckev Posts: 2,914
    Until you get as far as the Thames barrier and find it closed
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    Curb_It said:

    Just on the boat with a little wine in hand.
    Lovely.

    In the Beehive with a beer
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,933
    I'm still fuming about this. I get the weather js beyond control but seriously they knew that all the major London stations were either closed or partially closed from about 5 this morning. Why didn't they tell us before we got on the train. Could have saved me about 4 hours of hassle today. Also less people squashed on these crowded (shortened) cattle trucks (trains) means less agro for them to deal with and less angry animals (passengers).

    As it is I'm gonnaI'm gonna be working till ten to get my submission done. Bloody joke.