Balcombe tunnel closed all day

[SweBHAFC]

Police 1 - 0 Fans

This will cause thousands to miss kickoff tonight

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Why police?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Feel free to explain the police role in this?

 

[SweBHAFC]

Conspiracy

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Brilliant.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

There are some very disturbed people in the world

 

[MikeySmall]

Have they put a blanket ban making sure no northerners comes south of Three Bridges? About time.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Price of Eggs 0 - 0 Closed Tunnel

 

[SweBHAFC]

There are some very disturbed people in the world

This!

 

[rool]

I assume this will make it unlikely for me to make my post match train back up to Victoria in time for the last at St Pancras at 00:12?

 

[SweBHAFC]

I assume this will make it unlikely for me to make my post match train back up to Victoria in time for the last at St Pancras at 00:12?

Unlikely mate. But hey, at least it is Friday and there are some cheap b&b's on offer

 

[WallyBanana]

Police 1 - 0 Fans

This will cause thousands to miss kickoff tonight

Blimey, what are those things called with lots of wheels and loads of seats on.....erm, oh god. Those things my son sings about the wheels going round on.....erm, er....Busses, that's it.

 

[SweBHAFC]

Blimey, what are those things called with lots of wheels and loads of seats on.....erm, oh god. Those things my son sings about the wheels going round on.....erm, er....Busses, that's it.

See granny's comment above.

No way buses can deal with all that demand and help people such as rool. There is currently 60 min delay at haywards Heath for about 200 commuters waiting to make the 10 mile journey north.

Southern rail is a joke. Paid 4,303 quid for my season ticket. Why can't they be held financially accountable?!

 

[crasher]

See granny's comment above.

No way buses can deal with all that demand and help people such as rool. There is currently 60 min delay at haywards Heath for about 200 commuters waiting to make the 10 mile journey north.

Southern rail is a joke. Paid 4,303 quid for my season ticket. Why can't they be held financially accountable?!

To some extent they are. Whenever there' a closure or non-running train the rail companies sit down with Network Rail to agree who's fault is was and pay for the disruption accordingly. As this is a tunnel closure it's much more likely to be down to NR than to SOuthern I'd guess.

But I guess your wider point still stands - costs are increasingly shifted on to us passengers.

 

[WallyBanana]

See granny's comment above.

No way buses can deal with all that demand and help people such as rool. There is currently 60 min delay at haywards Heath for about 200 commuters waiting to make the 10 mile journey north.

Southern rail is a joke. Paid 4,303 quid for my season ticket. Why can't they be held financially accountable?!

I totally agree with you on the whole season ticket thing and I sypmathise cos it's a shit load of money for an often poor service.

I just don't agree with your police comments. The bridge is unsafe as far as i'm aware......could you imagine the sh1t they'd get if it was to come down on a train as it sailed through? I'm sure they haven't closed it to spite everyone.

No, I don't work for Southern Rail.

 

[shaolinpunk]

 

[Tricky Dicky]

See granny's comment above.

No way buses can deal with all that demand and help people such as rool. There is currently 60 min delay at haywards Heath for about 200 commuters waiting to make the 10 mile journey north.

Southern rail is a joke. Paid 4,303 quid for my season ticket. Why can't they be held financially accountable?!

Well, it doesn't help much, but you can claim your "delay" pay from Southern. I claimed for nearly a weeks travel for last years snow and got about £60 back in train vouchers. Not the full amount, admittedly, and vouchers were no use to me, but I still claimed.

P.P. Good job I was working at home anyway today, sounds like I would not have made it in.

 

[Gazwag]

Southern rail is a joke. Paid 4,303 quid for my season ticket. Why can't they be held financially accountable?!

So lets think about this, the police have damaged the tunnel so the Leeds fans cannot get to Brighton and because it makes it a bit dangerous for trains to travel through said tunnel its Southern Rail's fault that they are making these repairs today.

 

[WallyBanana]

Ooh ooh.....I can see the Burrell! I will be in there from 17:30 tonight!!!!

 

[SweBHAFC]

Regarding the police comment it would be safe to say that it was lighthearted. I don't genuinely think the old bill vandalised a tunnel to save a few dirty dirty dirty Leeds fans getting a slap.

With that said though... They are probably not gutted if certain "elements" couldn't make it down...