[Misc] Major Signal Failure at East Croydon

[Lower West Stander]

Be warned. Just started moving after being stationary for an hour


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[Guinness Boy]

National Rail advising people not to travel via East Croydon

https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/238459.aspx

Via Havant on South Western or via Tonbridge or St Leonards on South Eastern.

Don't shoot the messenger....

 

[Madafwo]

Lines have re-opened but over an hour and a half of not much moving things are going to be up the swanny until close of play.

 

[dazzer6666]

Just left London Bridge using my usual 'anything going South will do' approach when this happens (quite often in 25 years of commuting).

Currently proceeding at normal speed to East Croydon on an East Grinstead train that's over an hour late, but despite hordes of people at LB it's actually not that crowded. Boards at LB were showing virtually everything delayed (with no new time) or cancelled.

Edit.....Brighton train at EC when I arrived, and moving normally. Got lucky.....

 

[HH Brighton]

Years of under funding, awful management and underhand deals done with the government. At least we haven’t got another 5 years of this ****ing shambles !!!

 

[Madafwo]

London Victoria shut on the Southern/GX side due to over crowding, as of 16 minutes ago.

 

[grubbyhands]

Mmmmmm. smacks of scummy pikeys and copper cable theft dontcha think?

 

[pasty]

London Victoria shut on the Southern/GX side due to over crowding, as of 16 minutes ago.

I gave up and went to The Shakespeare. Finally got on a train about 8:30 after getting to Victoria at 5 o'clock.

 

[Common as Mook]

What an absolute frigging shambles

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

And today the Argus reporting that most trains not stopping at Gatwick Airport due to 'problems with station lighting'. Sake! How many people miss their flights or arrive in a deeply stressed state due to these clowns that are supposed to run a major rail link and would have trouble running a bath. Useless ****s.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18111836.travel-chaos-gatwick-airport-trains/

 

[Napper]

5 more years

 

[Ernest]

Would have been a nationalised railway with cheaper fares but people voted for this chaos

 

[dazzer6666]

And today the Argus reporting that most trains not stopping at Gatwick Airport due to 'problems with station lighting'. Sake! How many people miss their flights or arrive in a deeply stressed state due to these clowns that are supposed to run a major rail link and would have trouble running a bath. Useless ****s.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18111836.travel-chaos-gatwick-airport-trains/

Nothing was stopping at LGW earlier, but shuttle buses were in place from Three Bridges......

Service is still infinitely better than it was in the 90s with its regular strikes, slam-door trains, shortened trains etc etc.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Would have been a nationalised railway with c4heaper fares but people voted for this chaos

The signals might work but the staff would be on strike every 5 minutes.

 

[BLOCK F]

Years of under funding, awful management and underhand deals done with the government. At least we haven’t got another 5 years of this ****ing shambles !!!

I am no railway buff, but it sounds as if Network Rail have a part to play in all of this.........lighting failure etc. and they are the Government body tasked with looking after the rail infrastructure, after all.
Can't all be put down to the train operating companies!

 

[Boys 9d]

I often hear defenders of the train operating companies pointing out that the particular problems are the fault of nationalised National Rail. Could the transport experts on here please advise me if NR has in house construction and maintenance workers or is the work contracted out to privately owned firms?

 

[beorhthelm]

I am no railway buff, but it sounds as if Network Rail have a part to play in all of this.........lighting failure etc. and they are the Government body tasked with looking after the rail infrastructure, after all.
Can't all be put down to the train operating companies!

most problems these days are Network Rail, unless its a train broken down.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Got back from holiday just in time phew

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[Lush]

This is why I always leave early for everything. Left Brighton 15.38. Arrived at office Christmas do in Old Street 18.40 just in time for the starter.

 

[blue-shifted]

Would have been a nationalised railway with cheaper fares but people voted for this chaos

To be fair mate, I doubt Jezza would have sorted it in a week