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.

You couldn't make up this kind of sh*t

This train, and, I'm willing to bet, pretty much every other commuter train on NXEA this morning are running late because of more f*cked up signals.

We're at least 25 minutes late at the moment.

But surreally, NXEA, are causing more delays to these trains by shifting them off the mainline so their precious bloody Inter City trains can have a clear run. They just did it to us at Chelmsford. They've added at least another 5 minutes to this already bolloxed journey.

Why do travellers to and from friggin' Norwich get priority over the rest of us?