Train disruption at Burgess Hill going to Brighton

[Buzzer]

A passenger on the Gatwick Express heading south has been taken ill and needs an ambulance. No idea how long we'll be stuck here.

 

[Jimmy Come Lately]

Just been told this train is being diverted via Lewes to get around the one with the sick passenger.

 

[Jimmy Come Lately]

Just been told that they've changed their minds and this train isn't going via Lewes after all.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Southern site - no reported delays.

Actuality - am stuck outside burgess hill on a train that is now 20 mins late. It's not like there's much you can do about someone needing an ambulance but you could at least communicate properly.

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

Southern site - no reported delays.

Actuality - am stuck outside burgess hill on a train that is now 20 mins late. It's not like there's much you can do about someone needing an ambulance but you could at least communicate properly.

Never use the Southern website for live train info as its utter rubbish.

Twitter is your best bet. Line now open.

 

[goldstone]

A passenger on the Gatwick Express heading south has been taken ill and needs an ambulance. No idea how long we'll be stuck here.

So what you do is take the sick person off the train, leave them on the platform until the ambulance comes. Train then continues its journey with only a short delay and hundreds of people's journeys aren't screwed up.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

So what you do is take the sick person off the train, leave them on the platform until the ambulance comes. Train then continues its journey with only a short delay and hundreds of people's journeys aren't screwed up.

Yeah, I am sure a cold platform would be ideal for someone in need of an ambulance.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I was on that Gatwick Express with the Gatwick scrubbed off the side. We were sat there at Burgess Hill for half an hour. Suppose they had to wait for the ambulance to arrive, then stabilise the passenger etc. Comedy French conductor kept announcing 'Allo!' then nothing else. Then the dreaded words 'Will the conductor please contact the driver' which normally means the onset of some further shit drama or other. But just this once they let us off with that.

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

So what you do is take the sick person off the train, leave them on the platform until the ambulance comes. Train then continues its journey with only a short delay and hundreds of people's journeys aren't screwed up.

Yeah, stick a person who clearly needed an ambulance and is ill, possibly unconscious, onto a cold station platform - just so a train doesn't have a minor delay.

Pure selfish that, one of the few delays commuters would actually be fine with.

 

[User removed 4]

Yeah, stick a person who clearly needed an ambulance and is ill, possibly unconscious, onto a cold station platform - just so a train doesn't have a minor delay.

Pure selfish that, one of the few delays commuters would actually be fine with.

No its not selfish at all, like there isnt a warm ticket office, staff restroom at these stations ?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Yeah, stick a person who clearly needed an ambulance and is ill, possibly unconscious, onto a cold station platform - just so a train doesn't have a minor delay.

Pure selfish that, one of the few delays commuters would actually be fine with.

There seems to be a lot of passengers in need of medical care these days, dont you think?

 

[Hillian1]

No its not selfish at all, like there isnt a warm ticket office, staff restroom at these stations ?

Have you ever been to Burgess Hill station Bushy?

Southbound, which is the direction I presume it was going, there is nothing, the ticket office is up a mahoosive flight of stairs. As much as I sympathise with commuters for 90% of the delays, an ill passenger is not one of them.

 

[clippedgull]

No its not selfish at all, like there isnt a warm ticket office, staff restroom at these stations ?

Obviously we don't know what the nature of the illness was, but if it was deemed serious enough to call an ambulance then moving the person is probably not an option.

It would be good policy for the train companies to educate guards as first responders in medical emergencies.

 

[MARKO]

So if the train was 30 mins late can I claim ?

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

So if the train was 30 mins late can I claim ?

With Southern yes, could be any reason and they will give you something back. Not sure about FCC.

Obviously we don't know what the nature of the illness was, but if it was deemed serious enough to call an ambulance then moving the person is probably not an option.

It would be good policy for the train companies to educate guards as first responders in medical emergencies.

Would have thought the guard would put a call out asking if a doctor onboard could go and attend - had that on a Virgin service before and 15 turned up to help !!

There seems to be a lot of passengers in need of medical care these days, dont you think?

Not really, it's normal. Paramedics don't just get called out to trains, besides this could be anything, hope the person isn't badly ill.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Never use the Southern website for live train info as its utter rubbish.

Twitter is your best bet. Line now open.

Cheers. I do follow them on twitter but also about 1000 others, making messages hard to pick out from a timeline sometimes. If the site says 'live running information' then it really should be pretty close to live!

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Then the dreaded words 'Will the conductor please contact the driver' which normally means the onset of some further shit drama or other.

Those truly are the words that strike fear into my heart.

 

[goldstone]

No its not selfish at all, like there isnt a warm ticket office, staff restroom at these stations ?

Being the kind of person I am, always thinking of others first, if it was me who was ill (however bad it was) I would drag myself off the train and insist on waiting on the freezing cold platform until the ambulance came so as to not inconvenience my fellow passengers.

That's the spirit this country needs more of!!!

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Being the kind of person I am, always thinking of others first, if it was me who was ill (however bad it was) I would drag myself off the train and insist on waiting on the freezing cold platform until the ambulance came so as to not inconvenience my fellow passengers.

That's the spirit this country needs more of!!!

Even if you were unconcious? That's impressive.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

To be fair I can take the jumpers and the illnesses they have no control over it. Its all the other stuff that makes my blood boil.