Another shambles....

They can't run trains in the cold, and now the useless wankers at NXEA can't run trains when the temperature gets a bit toastie.

The temperature today went over 30 degrees Celsius so characteristically the whole f*cking network ground to a halt because the overhead wires are so bloody clapped out they're f*cked when it gets warm. Not good during a typical summer here in the UK.

Trains cancelled, trains delayed, trains not completing their scheduled journeys, you name it, we had it.

I thought I'd leave a few minutes early and get the 1806 from Stratford simply because that service uses Class 360 rolling stock which is air-conditioned. The 1809 uses ancient, clapped out Class 321s which have no air-con. In the weather we've had today they're like ovens and absolute hell to travel on.

As it turned out everything was so f*cked up that it was 20-past-6 before I was able to catch a Clacton train running 40 minutes late. I eventually got to Witham around 7pm. There was a Braintree shuttle waiting there -- as ever NXEA cancelled all through trains and from Braintree as soon as things even looked like going pear-shaped.

Thirty minutes later we finally left having waited for 2 very delayed connecting services.

They've promised us that f*ck-ups like tonight will no longer occur once they've replaced the crap overhead wires... in 2014. You couldn't make it up.

They're forecasting thunderstorms for tonight and tomorrow. I wonder how that will affect the trains. Because it will.