February 22, 2010 — No comments — Yet again a broken down train at Stratford sees us all turfed off just one station outside of London. If this is what it's like for commuters, how are we going to cope with the influx of visitors to the Olympics?
January 19, 2010 — 1 comment — Our train our of London broke down half way to Stratford this evening, and a 30-minute journey turned into a two and a half hour slog on three trains, stopping at almost every station on the line.
August 25, 2009 — No comments — A particularly crappy journey home last night. A very slow roll-out from London and then, as we got to Ilford, full stop as the driver rebooted the train. Whatever was wrong - something about the safety systems, apparently - she said she couldn't fix it, so after 15 minutes or so we were turfed off.
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November 30, 2010 | No comments
Facebook protest group

A new Facebook page is angling for free Underground and Overground travel for the whole of January, but what will it achieve?

November 29, 2010 | No comments
Tube map showing disruption

Today’s tube strike is just a taste of things to come with the unions promising further action in 2011.

November 23, 2010 | No comments
What does each pound of your ticket price pay for?

Rail fares are heading skywards next year. Atoc has confirmed an average increase of 6.2% for 2011, starting in January.

November 23, 2010 | No comments

An answer to my question. I’d emailed to ask what ‘poor track conditions’ means, and it seems it’s a cover-all for general rail problems. I wonder if that’s a reaction to the general ribbing the train operators got to the ‘wrong kind of snow / leaves on the line’ excuses they gave years ago, as… Read more…

November 9, 2010 | No comments

Is Orwell running the trains these days? None of my trips to or from work have been without problems this last week or so. Yesterday’s total morning journey took an hour longer than usual, door to door, and this morning it was a good 30 minutes over the usual stretch. Why? Well, this morning it… Read more…