Stupidity personified...

I'm currently on the 0812 train from Braintree to Stratford.

It's a pleasant warm summer morning so as I first sat down I opened a couple of the small windows to let some air in and keep the temperature down.

Of course I didn't reckon with the mind-boggling stupidity of some of my fellow passengers.

One of which has just shut them again because the noise is disturbing the endless drivelling conversation she is having with another gormless female in the seat behind.

Some people are just too thick for words.

More bloody speed restrictions

Yet again Network bloody Rail have stuck another arbitrary speed restriction in along the stretch of line between Stratford and Shenfield.

The 1809 is currently dragarsing along again. The weather is obviously once again the wrong sort.

It's a pleasantly warm sunny day so the antique overhead power lines are f*cked again.

Words fail me.

Why?

I'm currently at Witham waiting for the 1901 to arrive. It's presently 15 minutes late because the signals are f*cked.

The preceding train from Braintree has only just departed.

Crap crap crap.

Update: The Braintree service eventually departed from Witham 18 minutes late.

All bolloxed again

We're currently dragarsing slowly up the line between Shenfield and Chelmsford because the bloody signals are f*cked again.

Absolutely dire.

It's official, NXEA really are crap!

Tonights London Evening Standard (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23965591-rail-firms-deluged-with-complaints-as-fares-rise.do) is reporting a huge rise in complaints about the railways.

In a survey carried out earlier this year five companies running services into London came bottom of the list.

Have a guess at who one of the joint worst performers was...

Got it in one, NXEA.

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.

It's amazing...

...that whenever a train breaks down because of NXEAs crap maintenance it always seems to be a Braintree service.

Another cancellation this morning after the poor sods who use the 0812 drew today's short straw.

NXEA really have stopped giving a shiny sh*t about their paying passengers since they discovered they were being slung out on their arses.