What is the point...

Of National Rail's Enquiry Line?

To my endless regret, I've just called it to ask how many arms and legs my new season ticket will cost me this year.

After 20 minutes split into roughly two minutes talking to the thickest individual it has ever been my misfortune to speak to and 18 minutes listening to silence I still have no idea.

His final offering was to go and ask at Braintree Station. Probably the only sensible thing I got out of him.

I'm intrigued...

To see NXEA have begun to de-brand their trains ready for when they have to give up the franchise in February.
I've now seen a number of Class 321 EMUs with either no branding at all, or with obvious signs of having had the NXEA decals removed.
Things are beginning to move.

At Chelmsford...

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?

Despite....

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.

Another morning...

With delays.

The 0726 is currently running at least 10 minutes late and as usual there's absolutely no indication why.

Postscript to Friday

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.

Woo-hoo....

On a Witham train, even got a seat.

Just leaving Stratford now