Friday's journey started as always with me catching the earlier 0727 train and changing at Witham onto a train that actually stops at Stratford; since the one from Braintree doesn't.
Times today were:
Morning:
Dep: Braintree 0727 (0727)
Arr: Witham 0743 (0743)
Dep: Witham 0755 (0755)
Arr: Stratford 0845 (0829) - Unbelievable! It takes real talent to reduce a train running on time to a delay of almost half as much as the journey time again. But time and again the clowns at NXEA achieve this kind of incompetence so I don't know why I'm surprised any more.
Evening:
There were delays on the Jubilee Line this evening and I missed the 1720 Witham train I would normally have caught. I was expecting to have an uncomfortable hour's wait for the 1820 and hope that the connection at Witham worked .
But, miraculously, there is now a Plan B; and this the only instance I have found up to now of an actual improvement in the service. There is now a new Ipswich train timetabled to depart Stratford at 1726 and scheduled to arrive at Chelmsford at 1750, a full 8 minutes before the Braintree train is timed to arrive.
Dep: Stratford 1729 (1726) - This was the Ipswich train.
Arr: Chelmsford 1752 (1750)
Dep Chelmsford 1803 (1758)
Arr: Braintree 1831 (1828)
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