Week beginning 17 Jan 2011 - The usual rubbish....

Monday

Morning

Dep: Braintree 0819 (0812) A bad start. It never really recovered,
Arr: Stratford 0927 (0907)  Pathetic isn't it?

Evening

Dep: Stratford 1823 (1820) 'Nuff said.
Arr: Witham 1902 (1858)
Dep: Witham 1903 (1901)
Arr: Braintree 1930 (1919) Dismal as ever.

Tuesday

Morning

Dep: Braintree 0813 (0812)Well it started out well-ish.
Arr: Stratford  0915 (0907) Not so good at Stratford though. Not once, not bloody once, has a Braintree train arrived at Stratford on time. Absolutely dire.

Evening

Dep: Stratford 1822 (1820) A bit late tonight, it's been worse.
Arr: Witham 1909 (1858) And typically it did get worse!
Dep: Witham 1909 (1901) So, as ever everything else gets delayed.
Arr: Braintree1927 (1919) The usual rubbish service again.

Wednesday

Morning

Dep: Braintree 0921 (0900) This was the worst day, as usual when there's a problem on the line the first services to be cancelled are the Braintree ones. Always. And they did it again this morning.

Why the hell can't they share the pain around?

And to add insult to injury they started the 0812 from Witham; the bastards just couldn't be arsed to run it through to Braintree. And as a final insult, the 0900 was the best part of half-an-hour late to boot.

I'm running out of words to describe all the crap we get from these wankers. All for the bargain price of more than £3,500 for an annual ticket which basically guarantees bugger all.
Arr: Stratford  1014 (0952) Words fail me.

Evening

Dep: Stratford 1821 (1820) Almost....
Arr: Witham 1902 (1858)
Dep: Witham 1903 (1901) Still managing to lose time...
Arr: Braintree1918 (1919) This has to be a mistake, it arrived early!

Thursday

Morning

Dep: Braintree 0813 (0812) Good start.
Arr: Stratford 0916 (0907) Back to the crap.

Evening

Dep: Stratford 1826 (1820) How do these pillocks manage to lose 6 minutes over an eight minute leg?
Arr: Witham 1904 (1858) Late again. Big surprise.
Dep: Witham 1905 (1901)
Arr: Braintree 1921 (1919)

Friday

Morning

Dep: Braintree 0731 (0727) They can't make any train run on time.
Arr: Witham 0747 (0743) Just as well the train I used to catch here has been changed, because I'd have missed it!

And another thing, last Friday as we pulled into Witham late an even later-running (is there any other  on NXEA?) Clacton to London service pulled in at the same time. Now any one with any common sense at all would have held that train to allow people from the Braintree train to get across the bridge and catch it. But no, this bunch couldn't even manage that so I was treated to a 15 minute wait for the 0755 (typically late). The only good thing about this service is that it's run using a Class 360 and not a crappy 321
Dep: Witham 0802 (0755) Late.
Arr: Stratford 0834 (0829) And later.

Evening

Dep: Stratford 1717 (1720) Caught the Clacton train which departs a couple of minutes before the Witham train.
Arr: Chelmsford 1740 (1744)
Dep: Chelmsford 1758 (1757)
Arr: Braintree 1825 (1828)

Another typically piss-poor week from NXEA.

Please God, let this lot get their just desserts and are slung out on their ear when the new franchise is awarded in November.