Friday, 2 September 2011

What is it...

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.

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