When we finally dragged into Witham almost 20 minutes late, the Braintree train was gone.
What was there was a f*cked-up Class 360 which I suspect was the Ipswich service which leaves Stratford at 1806, sitting alongside Platform 3, which is where northbound mainline trains normally stop.
We arrived at Platform 2, where the southbound services usually stop. This meant we had to cross over the bridge to get to Platform 4, where the Braintree trains stop.
It's also where the Station office is located and there was a gathering of seriously disgruntled passengers trying to get to Kelvedon.
Problem was, the Clacton train we arrived on doesn't stop there; neither did the Ipswich train which passed through Platform 4 without stopping while we were there. One individual was just about to lose it, he was not a happy bunny. He was bawling at the staff trying to get them to tell him whether the Clacton train at Platform 2 stopped there. Trouble was the staff were pointedly ignoring him.
Eventually he got so pissed off he took off across the bridge threatening to pull the alarm on the Clacton 321. I have no idea if he actually did; I abandoned the railway at this point and got a lift home.
Un-f*cking-believable.
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