Train info swap shop....

[Bahnhof Strasse]

SW trains website is down, but nothing on BBC mate, but just spoken to someone who works at waterloo station and all trains have been cancelled just now apparently.

ETA, just seen BS's comments, the guy who I got the info from works for Network Rail, but I'm sorry if this info isn't right!

FUCK - my info was from someone who passed through 2 hours ago. I use Waterloo!!!

 

[Pieface]

All SW trains cancelled you say?

Sorry to hassle but I'm getting no useful info anywhere...

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Anyone know anything about South Western trains - the line into Waterloo? I can't anyone on the phone who knows these things.

Yes yes tell me tell me. I'm going to be fucked arn't I.

 

[undercover]

All SW trains cancelled you say?

Sorry to hassle but I'm getting no useful info anywhere...

I was literally on the phone to someone from NR at waterloo station and they were on the concourse waiting for a train, and they announced they'd all been cancelled/suspended.

Not sure if that affects trains coming in though mate or just ones going out, sorry I can't be more help!

Off to do battle at victoria now myself, so good luck!

 

[Pieface]

sounds bad....

I don;t know whether to risk getting stuck in Chiswick station or on the cacking underground

 

[undercover]

From SWT at 16.40

Petersfield - Havant now running normally in the up (London-bound) direction and under caution on the down
Reading - blocked on down line at Sunningdale and both lines at Bracknell
Wraysbury - down line blocked
Chertsey - both lines blocked
Ascot - Bagshot - both lines blocked
Ashford Middlesex - both lines blocked
Isleworth - one line blocked
Ash Vale - both lines blocked (running Alton - Farnham shuttles)
Clandon - both lines blocked
London Road - both lines blocked

 

[STFC]

BBC Travel

This seems to have all the rail operators and is updated regularly:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/travelnews/#rail

 

[Pieface]

answered my question thanks. I'm off to sit on the underground for 6 hours instead

 

[undercover]

Last bit of news, from national rail, all the train compamy updates -

bad news express...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

All SW trains cancelled you say?

Sorry to hassle but I'm getting no useful info anywhere...

18 January 2007

As a result of severe weather, a large number of trees have fallen down across the network, blocking many train lines.
Many services are subject to severe delays, short notice alterations and cancellations.
Network Rail is working as quickly as possible to clear the lines.
At this point, we can confirm that the disruption will continue throughout the evening peak.
Due to the high demand of passengers trying to access our website at this time, we are experiencing server difficulties which we aim to resolve shortly.

Latest update as at 1640
Petersfield - Havant now running normally in the up (London-bound) direction and under caution on the down
Reading - blocked on down line at Sunningdale and both lines at Bracknell
Wraysbury - down line blocked
Chertsey - both lines blocked
Ascot - Bagshot - both lines blocked
Ashford Middlesex - both lines blocked
Isleworth - one line blocked
Ash Vale - both lines blocked (running Alton - Farnham shuttles)
Clandon - both lines blocked
London Road - both lines blocked

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

So how do I get from Waterloo to Croydon?

I can't go to London Bridge but can I still go to blackfriars and waterloo east?
If I get to clapam junction or victoria can I still get a train there?

 

[Mr T]

look on:

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/downl...ted_on_Thursday_18_January_2007Tablev1800.htm

 

[undercover]

That was fun.

 

[DrRingDing]

7 hours to get home!

I bet there are plenty of poor sods that will not get home tonight.

 

[Griff]

Journey took an extra 20 minutes, as I picked up Mrs.Griff from Leytonstone as there were no mainline trains out of Liverpool Street.

Quite lucky really as they closed the M11 shortly after we used it.

 

[Roadkill]

I'd have been fine on my way back from west London yesterday, had I not missed the announcements on the Jubilee Line - where I even had a seat - and got of at London Bridge expecting my usual train back to Charlton... Fighting my way back onto the tube and over to Norrh Greenwich to get a bus was not fun.

But BR can't run a train.

BR does not exist any more, but problems in high winds are common on modern railways 'cos gales like yesterday's all too often bring down the OHLE.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I went for dinner in Waterloo rather than face the trains. I left about 9.30 and waterloo and clapham junction still looked like the worst rush hour ever.

 

[Pieface]

I went underground instead of using the trains into Clapham Junction. The tube didn't stop at Victoria and so I had a journey with my face in someone's armpit on the northern line instead.

Got off at Kennington and got pissed. I feel awful now and I'm blaming Network Rail

 

[trashpony]

I blame whoever runs services out of Kings X for the fact that my boss was unable to get home last night, meaning he stayed in London, meaning he decided to come into work today rather than have the day off he had planned

 

[beeboo]

I left work at a few minutes early because I really needed to get home on time. Hopped straight onto the Victoria line, which was suprisingly empty, out at Victoria, straight onto a train which had just arrived 40 minutes late but departed immediately. Train terminated early but luckily at my station. Jumped straight on a bus which made it down the road which had been cleared of a fallen tree, and was home in record quick time

 

[Roadkill]

I blame whoever runs services out of Kings X for the fact that my boss was unable to get home last night, meaning he stayed in London, meaning he decided to come into work today rather than have the day off he had planned

The overhead power lines came down. GNER and WAGN's trains are largely electric, so they were stuck.

If you want someone to blame, blame Thatcher. When British Rail upgraded and electrified the East Coast Main Line in the 1980s, they did it on time and within budget (and compare that with the West Coast upgrade in the last few years...). Unfortunately, the government cut the budget back as far as they could, meaning that BR had to cut a few corners. As a result, the overhead lines aren't as strong as they could have been and they come down in high winds.

 

[davesgcr]

Never mind the quality of the overheads - they cannot cope with things like a marquee that was on them ........let alone large debris / tarpaulines / part of a lorry near Wakefield and the other 500 instances nationally of track debris.A lot of train crews practised their woodwork skills using the on train tool box contents to remove obstructions......

There is a big programme at the moment of tensioning and replacing the OLE on the ECML .....its been completed on the c2c line.

In the 1987 storm there was a cockle shed on the overheads at Leigh on Sea - you cannot legislate for that sort of "obstruction" ,...

The whole German rail system was shut down yesterday due to the storm - an unprecedentated occassion - large numbers of people slept on stations fortified by tea and blankets.

I would have expected schnapps .....