London trains are all messed up

[Buzzer]

Just a heads up

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Just a heads up

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I hope it wasn't too uncomfortable in your sleeping bag on the station concourse. You might have stood up before you took the pic though.

 

[Buzzer]

Strange how Tapatalk posts the photos skew-whiff.

There are allegedly some trains now but I'm going to work from home. I don't fancy standing all the way to London.

 

[studio150]

At least a new excuse in flooding but still no fun for commuters

 

[RandyWanger]

If you do make it into London, all the tubes are messed up. Had to commute into the West End this morning (from Essex) nightmare.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Boy, do I not miss commuting - ok, it took bowel cancer and kidney failure to make that happen, but maybe it was worth it !

 

[Del Fenner]

Wrong sort of water on the tracks?

 

[Badger]

Boy, do I not miss commuting - ok, it took bowel cancer and kidney failure to make that happen, but maybe it was worth it !

Wow that's quite a statement. Maybe you should start some kind of "Things that are more preferable than commuting with SASTA" campaign.

 

[Gwylan]

Wrong sort of water on the tracks?

More like wrong sort of directors on the board

 

[gregbrighton]

I feel sorry for commuters to put up with this sort of stress, day in, day out.

 

[McTavish]

Wrong sort of water on the tracks?

To be fair in places in Clapham and Wandsworth it looked as if a river was flowing between the tracks...

Question for those ITK: why can't the platform and on board indicators, and the automated announcements be turned off when they go wrong? On my journey back from Clapham I got on a train that the platform indicator and the automated announcement assured me was going to Littlehampton only to find that it was actually going to Epsom. Later the train from East Croydon to Brighton confidently assured me for the whole journey that we would shortly be arriving at Luton Airport Parkway (much to the horror of the tourists who were trying to go to Gatwick.)

 

[Perry's Tracksuit Bottoms]

I got on an on-time train at Wivelsfield that then waited at Haywards Heath for half an hour for the attaching portion to catch up. If I'd just been told this at Wivelsfield I could have gone back home and had a nice cup of tea and would have had much more sympathy.

 

[Gazwag]

To be fair in places in Clapham and Wandsworth it looked as if a river was flowing between the tracks...

Question for those ITK: why can't the platform and on board indicators, and the automated announcements be turned off when they go wrong? On my journey back from Clapham I got on a train that the platform indicator and the automated announcement assured me was going to Littlehampton only to find that it was actually going to Epsom. Later the train from East Croydon to Brighton confidently assured me for the whole journey that we would shortly be arriving at Luton Airport Parkway (much to the horror of the tourists who were trying to go to Gatwick.)

It can be confusing when its right as well, we came back from London to Polegate on a Sunday morning a few weeks ago and had to come via Brighton, we got onto the Eastbourne train at Brighton and just as it was leaving the internal announcement said it was the London train, lots of worried looks until it eventually then went onto say it was going to Eastbourne first and then onto London.

 

[clapham_gull]

To be fair between Clapham Junction (Battersea) and Wandsworth common there was a river flowing through the tracks.

I'm just have way walking back from CJ to Balham because there is still a river flowing and the platforms are closed.

 

[albionite]

What happened this morning isn't southerns fault but the mess for the rest of the day is.

All the experienced guys in control have left for better things/money. Southern have employed graduate managers (cheaper)in their place with the most experienced guy only been doing it for two years.

They have also moved them to a different building so they are no longer working along side the guys who work for network rail so no more leaning over and asking for best course of action,

Pretty much why when it goes tits up it stays that way all day.

 

[SockMonster]

Heard a great announcement this afternoon at Brighton Station....
"Please stand back from the edge of Platform 8 as the next train will not stop at this station"!

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Boy, do I not miss commuting - ok, it took bowel cancer and kidney failure to make that happen, but maybe it was worth it !

I have a good friend who was on kidney dialysis for years, so believe me when l say, that l know that isn't true!

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Heard a great announcement this afternoon at Brighton Station....
"Please stand back from the edge of Platform 8 as the next train will not stop at this station"!

Straight into the buffers!

 

[Beach Hut]

Heard a great announcement this afternoon at Brighton Station....
"Please stand back from the edge of Platform 8 as the next train will not stop at this station"!

I heard that announcement last season one Saturday waiting for a train to Falmer for a game, thought I was going mad so glad you have also confirmed this.

 

[Ernest]

What happened this morning isn't southerns fault but the mess for the rest of the day is.

All the experienced guys in control have left for better things/money. Southern have employed graduate managers (cheaper)in their place with the most experienced guy only been doing it for two years.

They have also moved them to a different building so they are no longer working along side the guys who work for network rail so no more leaning over and asking for best course of action,

Pretty much why when it goes tits up it stays that way all day.

I just put that on the SASTA thread , bit different closing a check out in Tesco's to having hundreds of phone calls from staff wanting to know what to do