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F*cking nightmare of a bastard commute

The £2 coin has been in circulation for sixteen years, you'd have thought the ticket machines in the principal station of Britain's third biggest city might have cottoned on to their existence by now. Fortunately not a big queue at the windows so I didn't miss my train this time.

(but hey, the twats have wisely spent their money on a creepy hologram lady by the barriers reciting useless information)
 
Oh, inquired about some compo for last night's debacle; As I have an annual season ticket I can't have any, but will get some money off my next season ticket. I'm not going to get another one though, SWT have worn me down so much that I'm gonna cut back on using their services so won't need a season ticket. No compo then.

On the plus side, by buying a daily ticket 2 or 3 times a weeks it'll cost about the same as an annual ticket, but I can claim compo every day there's a delay, so should work out cheaper :cool:
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
Oh, inquired about some compo for last night's debacle; As I have an annual season ticket I can't have any, but will get some money off my next season ticket. I'm not going to get another one though, SWT have worn me down so much that I'm gonna cut back on using their services so won't need a season ticket. No compo then.

On the plus side, by buying a daily ticket 2 or 3 times a weeks it'll cost about the same as an annual ticket, but I can claim compo every day there's a delay, so should work out cheaper :cool:
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If the deduction for season tickets is for Void Days, you can still claim it even if you don't renew it. You have to demand it because they don't offer it voluntarily. The ticket office where you bought the tickets is the place. I got £500 back one year due to especially shit service.
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
Oh, inquired about some compo for last night's debacle; As I have an annual season ticket I can't have any, but will get some money off my next season ticket. I'm not going to get another one though, SWT have worn me down so much that I'm gonna cut back on using their services so won't need a season ticket. No compo then.

On the plus side, by buying a daily ticket 2 or 3 times a weeks it'll cost about the same as an annual ticket, but I can claim compo every day there's a delay, so should work out cheaper :cool:
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you could also do what the nation's biggest fair dodger (until he was caught and paid up) did
 
More shitty service tonight from the useless bastards. Freight trains in the way, congestion around New Street, then a leisurely detour on a slow route because some stupid twat has driven a lorry into a bridge on the mainline. :mad:
 
The excuse I heard this morning for the delay was certainly novel, and made everyone laugh on the train. We were held for 15 minutes and the train manager came on the PA to tell us why. She started with 'you won't believe this but...' and explained the following...

  1. The train in front had struck a bird.
  2. The poor unfortunate creature had been thrown upwards by the impact and hit the OHL.
  3. It then caught fire.
  4. It then got thrown off the OHL and landed on top of the aircon unit on Coach F.
  5. Coach F then filled with smoke.
  6. They had to evacuate the carriage, and were thinking about evacuating the whole train.
  7. Everything had to wait until Network Rail had inspected the OHL for damage.
I had an image of a poor bird streaking through the air trailing fire behind it. :D

(((bird)))
 
Such are the vagaries of the wonderful (John Major - bless !) , there will now be a debate as to the size of the bird and who takes the delay minutes blame. Anything more than a pheasant is "act of God" - so NR not responsible. Reminds me of a Reg Perrin excuse - "Albatros on the line at Albany Park" ....scenario.

Crap day again for the Brighton line - no less than 2 broken rails - Gatwick and Wandsworth Common - the train and station staff must be wondering what next ? - not great elsewhere - and I will not go into the "unexpalined trespassers and deaths" tales in the last 24 hours ....
 
davesgcr said:
Such are the vagaries of the wonderful (John Major - bless !) , there will now be a debate as to the size of the bird and who takes the delay minutes blame. Anything more than a pheasant is "act of God" - so NR not responsible. Reminds me of a Reg Perrin excuse - "Albatros on the line at Albany Park" ....scenario.

Crap day again for the Brighton line - no less than 2 broken rails - Gatwick and Wandsworth Common - the train and station staff must be wondering what next ? - not great elsewhere - and I will not go into the "unexpalined trespassers and deaths" tales in the last 24 hours ....
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We were wondering what type of bird it was. It must have been larger than a songbird like a tit, as a tiny bird would presumably be pulped on impact. I suppose the air displacement could have thrown a small bird onto the OHL.

I hope they were serving crispy fried duck for breakfast in first class.
 
Pickman's model said:
only because they'd run out of kippers :mad:
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Dream on ...."Kippers" never made it in Beardie's wonderful West Coast Main line - county yourself lucky for a "joke" full breakfast of microwaved sausage , rubber egg , one piece of bacon , about 3 tiny mushrooms and no extras .....or a 30p worth of bacon roll.....(where did the baked beans / proper saute spuds go I wonder ?) .......
 
davesgcr said:
Dream on ...."Kippers" never made it in Beardie's wonderful West Coast Main line - county yourself lucky for a "joke" full breakfast of microwaved sausage , rubber egg , one piece of bacon , about 3 tiny mushrooms and no extras .....or a 30p worth of bacon roll.....(where did the baked beans / proper saute spuds go I wonder ?) .......
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i had kippers on the train from york to london back in 1984 and i can still remember it :)
 
Yes, and combine that with the fire near Wandsworth that is still affecting overground trains makes this a good day to be working from home. :)
 
:D apparently there are also problems with first great Western for trains into work as well.

So that's pretty much all four stages of my journey.

Or at least what it would have been if I wasn't sat here drinking coffee on my sofa.
 
NR asking people not to come to Victoria Station now. Like people go there for the shits and giggles in the first place :rolleyes:

I'm at home, so sod everyone else having a nightmare today :)

eta, plus this on my line: The following train services may be cancelled due to signalling problems
- The 17:15, 17:30, 17:45, 18:00, 18:18, 18:30, 18:45, 19:15, 19:30, 19:45 and 20:00.

:rolleyes::rolleyes::mad:
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
NR asking people not to come to Victoria Station now. Like people go there for the shits and giggles in the first place :rolleyes:

I'm at home, so sod everyone else having a nightmare today :)

eta, plus this on my line: The following train services may be cancelled due to signalling problems
- The 17:15, 17:30, 17:45, 18:00, 18:18, 18:30, 18:45, 19:15, 19:30, 19:45 and 20:00.

:rolleyes::rolleyes::mad:
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Ooh, get you with your three to four trains an hour.

Fucking trains fucking suck. As ever, the Mash has the final word:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/shit-only-accurate-word-for-trains-2015042997856
 
farmerbarleymow said:
They seem to have finally admitted that the escalators at Birmingham New Street are properly fucked. 31 out of 54 is appalling.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-32493056
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Woman I work with fell down one of the non working ones yesterday and has fucked her back.

I've used new Street two days this week and it's still a nightmare. In fact central Birmingham is a nightmare, I guess there is a school of thought that says you do all your major works at once to reduce the time you fuck everything up but it's a proper ball ache to walk around if your not a local.
 
Was listening to LBC earlier - interviewing traumatised commuters who'd spent 5hrs on a stationary train outside Clapham Junction. Fuck that :(
 
Dan U said:
Woman I work with fell down one of the non working ones yesterday and has fucked her back.

I've used new Street two days this week and it's still a nightmare. In fact central Birmingham is a nightmare, I guess there is a school of thought that says you do all your major works at once to reduce the time you fuck everything up but it's a proper ball ache to walk around if your not a local.
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I hope she recovers ok, and hope she put it in their accident book. :(

It's a serious problem for people unable to walk down them when they're not working, as the lifts can only carry so many people at a time, so it would be easy to miss trains because of Network Rail's utter incompetence. Quite why they haven't sued the supplier of the escalators is a mystery - they really should have tested them thoroughly to make sure they worked before opening them for public use.
 
farmerbarleymow said:
I hope she recovers ok, and hope she put it in their accident book. :(

It's a serious problem for people unable to walk down them when they're not working, as the lifts can only carry so many people at a time, so it would be easy to miss trains because of Network Rail's utter incompetence. Quite why they haven't sued the supplier of the escalators is a mystery - they really should have tested them thoroughly to make sure they worked before opening them for public use.
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Most large engineering contracts have some form of 'remediation' clause, where the contractor has to put the problems right first. If still not resolved there may be a further chance or they may then proceed to dispute resolution.

Does beg some questions about installation and commissioning checks but if it's a part or subsystem bought in from a third party that's not up to standard the investigation to find out what has gone wrong could be lengthy and complex (for example there are known cases in my industry of substandard parts with paperwork falsified quality/sign off paperwork), hence the 'not being sued yet'.
 
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