Despite National Rail claiming they've now fixed the f*cked up signals at Stratford, I arrived there tonight to find there are still delays.
It's gone beyond a joke now, it's a downright bloody disgrace. Over 2 weeks of f*cked up trains now and still counting.
The latest train to arrive here so far is the 1803 Southend service.
It's happened again!
The f*cking signals around Stratford are bolloxed again.
The 0812 is currently nowhere to be seen.
Words fail me.
Late and still we get shunted onto the Chelmsford passing loop to allow a poxy Inter City past.
F*ck the poor bloody commuters who have paid NXEA almost 4 grand a year for this shit, can't let the trains that make the most in subsidies run later than necessary.
Excuses for another f*ck up is "point failure".
Everything running at least 15 minutes late, though you wouldn't think so from the robotic "apologies".
Not once for at least 2 weeks now has there _not_ been a f*ck up on this joke of a railway line at some point during one or the other, and frequently both, rush hours.
February really cannot come soon enough now.
Continues right to the bitter end.
Another f*cked days travel.
There are currently signalling problems somewhere around Stratford. It's completed bolloxed everything.
So as usual the dickwads at NXEA immediately start cancelling services and, as usual, the Braintree line is the first victim.
Once again the 0812 has been unceremoniously binned.
Yet again the wankers didn't have the courage or courtesy to actually tell the poor bastards they were shafting that they were being shafted. Not one tannoy message so far, not one. The only email I received was the usual vague "may be cancelled" one.
The 0900 is roughly half an hour late at the moment. I can see that one getting the chop as well.
Soon be February.
At least the new lot are contractually obliged to keep people informed. It may not stop the f*ck ups, but at least we'll know about them sooner.
Services may be totally up the shitter again tonight, but the poxy Inter Cities are still running on time.
Currently 15 minutes late at Witham waiting for the Clacton connection, which has been kept waiting in turn for an Inter City to go past.
Amazing.
Shambolic evening on the country's worst railway. No idea why, no-one's letting on as usual.
10 minutes late leaving Stratford and then we stopped.
Bloody hopeless.
This week I've travelled home seated near the most unbelievably miserable individual it has ever been my misfortune to encounter.
Each night as we approached Witham she has received a call on her mobile from someone, and every time she has then conducted the conversation using the most awful, whiney, misery inducing voice.
On a couple of occasions I felt like offering her a weapon so she put herself and us out of her misery.
We're stuck here at Stratford waiting for the Braintree service, we're being treated to two cretins competing over the tannoy, announcing and then re-announcing each late-running train.
You really couldn't make up this kind of lunacy.
Bolloxed evenings travel in prospect thanks to NXEAs piss-poor maintenance.
Everything is running at least 15 minutes late from Stratford.
I just keep telling myself it'll soon be February.
Needlessly f*cked-up evenings travel thanks to the clowns running the Jubilee Line.
Tonight, these f*ckwits had every fourth train needlessly terminating at the pointless North Greenwich.
As a result, everyone on them got off at Canary Wharf and waited there for the next Stratford train.
Meaning the queues were doubled at a stroke.
Inevitably, each of the next three Stratford trains was absolutely rammed; at most just 3 or 4 people were able to board at each door. I had to wait for a new piss-poor record of 6 trains before I could finally get on.
To compound the misery, they were running with huge gaps between trains.
The only upside was that as we stood there seething waiting for the next train we weren't being regaled by the idiot on the tannoy that there was a "good service" running. Which there wasn't. Again
Adding to the misery was the obligatory slamming to a halt halfway between West Ham and Stratford to "await a free platform", and then arriving to find the obligatory 2 empty platforms.
Just shambolic.
Now I'm having to stand on the dragarsing 1820 Clacton train which at the moment seems unlikely to make the connection at Witham with the Braintree train TF Hell's incompetence made me miss.
NXEA'S precious bloody inter-city trains appear to be unaffected by any overhead line problems once again.
One has just gone past us at speed.
We're late.
Overhead wire problems is today's excuse de jour.
Dragarsing again, just passing Romford.
Come across a sport which I find listening about even more bloody boring than golf. F*cking tennis!
Three people, a gormless younger woman together with an older couple, possibly her parents, got on at North Greenwich.
They had obviously been at the tennis going on at the Dome, because the airheaded cow spent the entire, now seemingly, endless journey to Stratford reading crap about the players, results and statistics from her phone in a loud and bloody irritating estuary accent.
I could still hear her drivelling as I made my way to platform 10 to catch the 1716.
Crap journey thanks to.... well no-one seems to know.
We dragged all the way from Witham at about 30mph. Normally the train would average about 70mph on that journey.
15 minutes late at Stratford.
As ever we were offered no explanation; the driver was doing his best to keep us informed, but nobody saw fit to tell him what was going on.
Coupled with the slow journey was the attitude of the bastards who got on at Chelmsford.
Yet again these arseholes barged on to the train like they f*cking owned it.
They seem to think no-one else has a right to use any train that stops there. They pushed down the aisle between the seats and forced their way into seats. The behaviour is a bloody disgrace.
Well I have news for them; I actually pay more for my season ticket than they do.
Turds, every one of 'em.
Much more incompetent can the f*ckwits at Stratford be?
The dot matrix displays dotted around the station are currently announcing track closures on the 12th and 13th of November.
Berks.
A f*ck up on the Jubilee Line turns into an even bigger clusterf*ck when NXEA are added to an already poisonous brew.
The Clacton train has been dragarsing its way all the way to Chelmsford. It's now a good 10 minutes late.
What are the odds the tossers at Witham let the Braintree go before we get there?
F*cked up journey on the Jubilee Line again thanks to the incompetent f*ckwits at TF Hell. Bastards.
Got onto the platform at Canary Wharf to discover the next train wasn't due for 6 minutes and worse it was only going to bloody useless North Greenwich.
The first Stratford train wasn't due for 8 f*cking endless minutes.
As usual that one was packed out, as was the train behind.
Another night where I couldn't get on for 3 trains.
Where do you get clowns as useless as the wankers running the Jubilee Line?
F*cked up journey courtesy of Tf bloody Hell.
The stupid useless empty f*cking North Greenwich train caused another huge tailback again tonight.
Three f*cking jam-packed trains went through before I was able to get on. Huge gaps between each f*cking train and as usual, all the while the wankers were tannoying there was a "good service" running.
No there wasn't. It was shite. Like it always is nowadays.
It's getting worse as well.
God help the poor bastards using it during the Olympics fiasco next summer.
Picked up speed again since leaving Shenfield.
But the damage has been done, and we're now between 10 and 15 minutes late.
Still no word on why.
Information from NXEA explaining why we're running slow and late.
Still, it's too late for them to change their habits now.
We've suddenly slowed down and we're dragarsing between signals on the way into Chelmsford.
What price can I get on signal failure up ahead?
Minutes late at Witham thanks to the wankers at NXEA.
Unbelievably the Clacton train we had to wait for was the one that's supposed to get to Witham 5 minutes AFTER this one.
They f*cked us up to get that bloody train back on time! And then the stupid cow on the tannoy at Witham implied it was OUR fault we were late.
It's crystal clear where Braintree comes on NXEA'S list of priorities when it comes to deciding who gets f*cked over first.
Usual breathtaking arrogant incompetence, NXEA have again decided that the poor bloody sods who travel to and from Braintree every day, paying the thick end of four grand for the dubious privilege of occasionally being offered the opportunity to travel in one of their shit box trains should be shafted again tonight.
Being shunted into siding every night to allow a f*cking untouchable Inter Shitty to go past is one thing. Forcing us to wait for a late f*cking Clacton one most certainly isn't.
Why do those bastards get priority when they're late? We never ever do.
Cocks.
NXEA are incapable of running anything on time.
Everything is at least 10 minutes late. And no explanation again.
Crapulous f*cked up evenings travel courtesy of London Underground.
Why do these demented clowns insist on running empty trains to North bloody Greenwich? No f*cker ever gets off there.
The next train is always packed out so the majority of people waiting at Canary Wharf have to get the third train to leave after they've got onto the platform.
Stupid.
Was another jolly journey into Stratford.
Today, I was given the opportunity to sit with a hyper-active knob-end, who got on at Hatfield Peverel and promptly started to empty his bag searching for something.
I've no idea if he found it, because he then pulled a Passenger Survey form out of a plastic sleeve and started to fill it in.
That done he then began to repeatedly remove, read and replace a stack of paper from a second plastic sleeve.
He carried on with that malarkey for the rest of the journey until just before we arrived at Stratford, at which point he decided to block the aisle while he repacked his bloody bag.
All the time that that particular madness was going on, I was being treated to sitting next to the usual gormless tool who continuously receives endless bloody emails on his Blackberry.
Instead of keeping bloody phone in his hand, this idiot insisted on putting it back in his trouser pocket after reading each new message. Why? No-one was going to steal it.
And to cap the misery, the train was 10 minutes late.
Still, nearly Christmas...
Whenever there's an NXEA maintenance f*ck-up like the one we have tonight, the Southend trains never seem to be as badly affected as the rest of the line.
One's just gone through Stratford out of sequence.
Every bloody train from Liverpool St is currently late by at least 10 minutes, well all of them apart from the untouchable f*cking Inter-Citys.
Piss-poor maintenance again.
Bolloxed mornings journey because of NXEA's piss-poor maintenance.
Dragarsing through Ilford again, 10 minutes late.
This morning.
The 0812 is currently dragarsing it's way past Ilford.
By way of explanation NXEA sent this gem:
"The 07:26 will be delayed after leaving by about 10 minutes due to an unusually large passenger flow."
WTF is "... an unusually large passenger flow"?
The last time they used that excuse their solution was to start cancelling trains. It was f*cking surreal.
Their excuse for this train being 10 minutes late is much more believable:
"...General disruption along the line caused by an earlier train fault
"
Piss-poor maintenance in other words.
This week, has whoever delivers the free Metro newspaper to Braintree station, provided enough copies to allow me to get my hands on one.
That was on Tuesday during the great overhead wire catastrophe.
And only then because the 0727 was cancelled and everyone who would have been on it went to Witham.
By ten-past-eight they're all now gone. A sure sign more people are travelling these days. And even more circumstantial evidence for the urgent upgrade and improvements this crappy railway line desperately needs.
National Rail have put this gem on their website:
"Overhead wire problems are causing disruption at London LiverpoolStreet. National Express East Anglia are advising passengers not to travel unless necessary. "
Good of NXEA to let us know. Oh wait, they haven't.
Freezing on Braintree station because the 0812 is at least 65 minutes late.
Overhead line problems somewhere around Bethnal Green.
Oddly, the train hasn't been canceled yet despite it supposedly arriving AFTER the 0900.
The good news is the 0900 is "on time". At least that's according to NXEA. National Rail just say it's "delayed". Which generally means it hasn't even left Liverpool Street yet.
From the mindless cretins who board the train in one crowded carriage and then insist on walking through to the next crowded carriage, then the next one, then the next and so on ad nauseum.
It happened again tonight; just after I'd found somewhere quiet to stand a gormless female came barging through the connecting door from the carriage behind and forced me back towards the carriage doorway.
All the while the silly bitch was twittering away on her mobile telling some twat she was "just walking down the train."
And the daft cow would have kept going except we were in the leading coach of a 4 coach set. She couldn't go any further in any case.
Dim slapper.
There were no Metro newspapers at Braintree Station this morning.
No Sudoku! How on earth am I going to survive the journey to Stratford?
Someone has just tried to let us know why the train is late.
It's just a shame the tannoy volume has been turned down so low no one could hear them properly.
We're sitting at Chadwell Heath going nowhere.
Typically no information is forthcoming from the train crew to tell us why we've stopped.
Only 4 months to go.
And as expected, the train is now f*cking deserted after the bastards all got off.
Now we've been informed that because the Braintree train ahead still hasn't arrived, we're being sidelined for 15 minutes so every other twat and his dog can go past.
What are the odds this train gets terminated at Witham?
The dishonest bullshit being spouted by the idiot on the tannoy at Canary Wharf tonight, there was most definitely not a "good service" on the Jubilee Line again.
Having to watch 3 packed trains together with the inevitable and pointless empty train which terminated at North Greenwich made that abundantly clear.
Coupled with that, was the shambles caused by the now weekly nutjob chucking themselves in front of a train at Romford.
I'm currently on the totally rammed 1809. As usual in these cases, it's filled to capacity with Chelmsford arseholes.
4 grand for this crap.
With delays.
The 0726 is currently running at least 10 minutes late and as usual there's absolutely no indication why.
The Witham train I caught didn't have the easy journey I was hoping for.
We spent at least half an hour waiting outside Shenfield for a platform to become available even though the train wasn't actually scheduled to stop there.
Even when a platform did become free the train pulled into it and stopped for another 40 minutes or so. It was there so long the driver got permission to open the doors to allow people off to stretch their legs.
Then while all that was going on, the station tannoy announced a Colchester train would be leaving from a different platform in a couple of minutes. Cue a mad dash by most of the passengers on our train across to the other one.
I stayed and was rewarded with a near empty train that departed a couple of minutes after the Colchester.
I finally got to Witham at about 10 past eight, and arrived home about twenty minutes later.
In all an hour and three-quarters' journey took almost 4 hours.
The 1809 isn't on time.
And the next train is yet another f*cking Southend one.
Nothing going north of Shenfield has gone through since this shit began. When they do start it'll be impossible to get on any of them.
The next train into Stratford after the Southend one left is another one going to bloody Southend.
And the next one is as well... Do these idiots not know there are other places people want to get to?
Just wandered over to platform 10A as the screens are saying the 1809 for Braintree will be on time. Yeah right.
Even if it is as it's likely to be one of the first trains to leave Liverpool St it'll be swarming with Chelmsford scum.
Stuck at Stratford.
The pillocks running things haven't a bloody clue between them.
Their only idea is to tell people to f*ck off somewhere else.
There are thousands of people with nowhere to go.
News....
Trains have just begun running again, the Southend train that was standing at platform 10 has just left.
But it's going to take hours to clear this, especially as every train from Liverpool St is going to be chocker with Chelmsford arseholes.
Place anywhere on the NXEA network for an incident to occur is Romford.
Every northbound service goes past there.
So it came as no surprise to arrive at Stratford this evening and discover someone had been hit by a train just there.
Absolutely nothing is moving along the entire network.
What's going on, the train that was blocking platform 10 has finally left.
Waiting for info on the Clacton train... Silence.
Update:
The Clacton train has just pitched up and, as usual, it's absolutely rammed with Chelmsford arseholes. So as usual I get to stand all the way to Chelmsford.
And I pay the thick end of 4 grand for this crap.
Just arrived at Stratford after having waited 3 trains to get on the Jubilee Line to find a train blocking platform 10.
As usual there's absolutely no information forthcoming from the muppet on the tannoy.
As soon as we got to Chelmsford all the arseholes swarmed off and I could finally sit down.
I suspect the gormless twats arrived at Liverpool St, saw their usual trains were delayed. So employing all their lemming like stupidity they swarmed across to the Braintree train which left on time thinking they'd get home a bit earlier than if they'd waited.
Only the trains the dozy toerags should have been on went sailing post while we were outside Stratford.
Another f*cking triumph.
By NXEA and/or National Rail now means this train which was on time is now 10 minutes late.
You couldn't make it up.
Sitting outside Stratford, so far 3 late running trains have been allowed to overtake us.
Bolloxed nights travel. Currently sitting just outside Stratford for a poxy late-running Southend train to go past.
The Braintree train is rammed with people for I don't know where. Probably Chelmsford arseholes.
Since I have been travelling into London on NXEA, the 0812 is a class 360 train.
Fast, smooth, with nice comfy seats and, somewhat redundant today, air conditioning.
The 321's must all be broken. Long may it continue.
Is running at least 15 minutes late this morning.
I'm currently standing on the platform in a half gale with rain in the air. Not a nice day to run late.
About Friday afternoons that causes the Jubilee Line to implode with monotonous regularity?
Once again there's been either a points and/or signal failure at Stratford that's shut the line down and as a result an entire trainload of people including me have just been slung off at North Greenwich; and with nothing running in either direction I can't even get back to Canary Wharf to get the DLR.
Update 1 @ 1719:
Another train has just pulled in and emptied out.
Update 2 @ 1722:
We've just been told there's a train due here shortly going back towards Canary Wharf.
Update 3 @ 1732: currently heading back towards Canary Wharf.
Update 4 @ 1734: back at Canary Wharf. That's an hour to go nowhere.
Update 5 @ 1743: now on a packed DLR train with someone in terminal need of a shower and a can of deodorant.
Update last @ 1806: just departed Stratford the 1806 Ipswich train.
This will be the main route to the Olympics next year. God help us all.
Inexcusable stupidity from the Kings of stupidity.
I've now discovered the wankers at Witham actually ran a Braintree service which they connected the Clacton service to.
The useless f*ckers didn't actually bother to communicate that fact to the poor sods who weren't able to get the Clacton train because the dimwits didn't tell them the Braintree was canceled until AFTER the f*cking thing had gone.
The incompetence just keeps on coming on an industrial scale.
Another bolloxed journey.
NXEA's piss-poor maintenance meant the 0726 from Braintree was canceled again this morning.
This resulted in the usual scramble for seats as 20 carriages worth of passengers tried to find somewhere to sit on an 8 carriage train.
Still, soon be February.
Evenings travel courtesy of TfL.
Their crap maintenance meant another of their piece of shit trains broke down at Stratford and then the useless bloody thing failed a second time as they were taking it back to the depot.
All of which meant the train I'd again managed to catch early was left sitting in the tunnel between Greenwich and Canning Town for 15 minutes.
F*cking pathetic.
Of course I missed the 1809 and was forced to catch the 1820 Clacton train which as usual was swarming with Chelmsford arseholes.
Gets better and better.
Now we're being held at Shenfield while 2 cretins have a punch up on the platform.
Unbelievable.
If the 1809 running late, but because NXEA don't maintain their trains properly, it's been reduced to 8 coaches instead of 12.
As a result it's absolutely swarming with arseholes traveling to Chelmsford. And three are no spare seats again.
F*cking wonderful.
F*cked evenings travel courtesy of NXEA.
The Braintree service of currently 10 minutes late and the dickheads are pushing Southend trains ahead of it.
And as usual when the 1809 is late the Chelmsford arseholes grab all the seats.
Bastards.
At Stratford still haven't bothered to connect the tannoys on platform 10A, but they have managed to install a load of video advertising screens over the weekend.
Ever the money grubbing tossers, they're more interested in making money from advertising than making sure their passengers can hear their announcements.
Useless as ever. Roll on February.
The 1809, barely. Because I was a bit late having used the DLR because the Jubilee Line was f*cked again I got on towards the back of the train which was infested by Chelmsford arseholes. Including the obligatory fat cow with her nose buried in one
of those "celebrity" magazines occupying 2 seats.
Not one of these ignorant bastards made eye contact as I sat down, nor did they make any effort to make room for me to sit.
It's a different matter in the morning when the arrogant f*ckers want a seat. I will always try to make room for them, shame they can't return the favour.
Turds.
On the railway are causing the usual shambles.
As usual the wankers at Stratford haven't a bloody clue.
They're currently advising Southend passengers to get on a bloody Braintree train.
F*cking demented.
London Underground come galloping along to completely f*ck up my journey home again.
Tonight they took a Jubilee Line train out of service at Waterloo and sent it along the line to the West Ham depot. Next there was a long wait for a packed train for Stratford. Absolutely no one was going to get on that one.
Next was a North Greenwich, strangely no one got on that either.
Now, quite why they couldn't run this train to Stratford given the preceding train wasn't going there is something that will forever remain a mystery.
But the wankers obviously had different ideas and clearly wanted to f*ck the paying customers as much as possible. All the time we're standing there waiting for them to get their sh*t together there's this dozy dickwad on the tannoy smugly proclaiming there was "a good service on the Jubilee Line". Total bullshit.
Another long wait for the next packed Stratford train ensued.
I only just managed to squeeze on amongst the schoolkids and day bloody trippers.
The upshot was I missed the Braintree train for the second night running and am presently standing on the packed Clacton service.
So yet another claim will be winging it's way to then later tonight.
Stopped between Hatfield Peveral and Witham. Yet another signal failure coupled with a broken down train.
What's the betting the wankers have already allowed the Braintree train to go?
Of leaving work on time only to end up standing on a sweltering Jubilee Line train which arrives at Stratford 20 minutes late and more than 5 minutes AFTER the Braintree train has gone ?
Useless twats.
Had an ignorant fat cow in a pink top barge her way in front of me in the queue for the Jubilee Line at Canary Wharf.
Slung off the Jubilee Line train on which I was travelling to Canary Wharf.
Apparently there's a broken down train ahead of us and a train stuck between stations behind us.
All through this shambles the dot matrix displays are proudly announcing the Jubilee Line has what is laughably described as good service"
F*cked up evenings travel courtesy of NXEA and National bloody Rail.
Bastards.
Allegedly there are signal problems tonight so the trains are being royally screwed again.
The 1809 was absolutely rammed with the arseholes travelling to bloody Chelmsford. We had'em all tonight, bastards.
The train was jammed with fat twats sitting in the corner seats fast asleep with their gobs open.
then as soon as we get to Chelmsford the bloody train empties out faster than a swimming pool with a turd floating in it.
Arseholes all of 'em.
By all of the tourists and day bloody trippers who buy cheap day return tickets and who should, by rights, not even be allowed onto evening rush hour services.
Yet again I'm being forced to stand while a bunch of mad old biddies hog all the spare seats with their bloody carrier bags.
It's not worth the effort to ask 'em to shift, by the time they've sorted out what they don't want to stick up into the luggage rack and what they don't think they'll need in the next 45 minutes, we'll be in bloody Braintree.
The journey into Stratford has been delayed by more than half an hour.
Today's delay was caused by signal problems somewhere around Ingatestone.
The 0812 arrived at Braintree 35 minutes late and only managed to make up about 5 minutes on the journey in.
Another Delay Repay claim to make.
The cretins running Stratford station have blocked off the quickest route to platform 10A so some pillock with a pneumatic drill can dick around.
Why haven't these idiots blocked off access to the tunnel leading to the area where the work is being done? Why are there no alternative routes signposted?
The route everyone is being forced to follow now involves climbing 3 flights of stairs to platform 10, walking along the platform, walking down 3 flights, walking along one of the rat run tunnels and then climbing another 3 flights.
All of this while the train is arriving at platform 10A so there's no respite from having to rush or miss the train.
And bear in mind that Stratford will be the hub for people traveling to next years Olympics.
God help us.
At Stratford, over half an hour late.
So that's another claim for the princely sum of £3.60 compensation I'm able to make.
Pathetic isn't it?
NXEA still haven't condescended to pass on any warning of the delay to this train.
I did receive an email earlier warning of delays to the earlier Braintree to Liverpool St service. But of delays to the 0812, deafening silence.
Even the stopping Metro services are outrunning us this morning.
Useless.
Is "track problems".
We're currently slowly dragarsing in towards Stratford. We should have arrived by now, but we're not even passed Romford yet and we keep stopping.
The dickheads at Stratford have shut off the usual access route to platform 10A
And yet again the gormless twats couldn't be arsed to tell the poor sods trying to use that route that it's blocked. Not a single indication anywhere.
Instead we're expected to troll around the maze of tunnels and stairways trying to find a useable route.
Hopeless.
of trains departing from platform 10A at Stratford, NXEA STILL haven't bothered to connect up the tannoy system on the platform.
If you're waiting for a train over there your only source of information are the tannoys on platform 10. The closest of these is a good 50 yards away.
Is it truly beyond the wit of these people to get the speakers that are already installed connected?
Apparently it is.
Pathetic.
...at that festering shower of shit that is NXEA have a bloody clue what they're playing at?
Having arrived on platform 10A at Stratford in plenty of time for the 1809 to Braintree, the useless tossers there decide the train's not going to use that platform, probably because it'll f*ck up the arrival of a more important bloody Southend train, oh no, they have to make everyone waiting for the Braintree service trek all the f*cking way across to platform 8.
Of course the arseholes couldn't be arsed to hold the train which was pulling in even as we were running around the f*cking place trying to negotiate the mindless maze of tunnels and stairways.
Oh no, the f*cking door beepers were going off well before I managed to get on.
Wankers
...the temptation could they?
Despite the cable theft occurring well north of Witham, the gormless f*ckwits at NXEA just HAD to start canceling Braintree trains.
As usual the first casualties of absolutely every balls-up on NXEA are the poor bloody sods just trying to get home to Braintree.
The next 2 services, including mine which was due to leave Stratford at 1809 are canceled.
Bastards.
NXEA are reporting a cable theft between Witham and Kelvedon.
Naturally they've taken the opportunity to f*ck up the travelling public with alacrity.
Trains being canceled. Connections f*cked up. Delays to services.
We're seeing it all yet again.
Roll on February.
I'm currently on the 0812 train from Braintree to Stratford.
It's a pleasant warm summer morning so as I first sat down I opened a couple of the small windows to let some air in and keep the temperature down.
Of course I didn't reckon with the mind-boggling stupidity of some of my fellow passengers.
One of which has just shut them again because the noise is disturbing the endless drivelling conversation she is having with another gormless female in the seat behind.
Some people are just too thick for words.
Yet again Network bloody Rail have stuck another arbitrary speed restriction in along the stretch of line between Stratford and Shenfield.
The 1809 is currently dragarsing along again. The weather is obviously once again the wrong sort.
It's a pleasantly warm sunny day so the antique overhead power lines are f*cked again.
Words fail me.
We're currently dragarsing slowly up the line between Shenfield and Chelmsford because the bloody signals are f*cked again.
Absolutely dire.
Tonights London Evening Standard (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23965591-rail-firms-deluged-with-complaints-as-fares-rise.do) is reporting a huge rise in complaints about the railways.
In a survey carried out earlier this year five companies running services into London came bottom of the list.
Have a guess at who one of the joint worst performers was...
Got it in one, NXEA.
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