C2C - Disaster strikes!

[pickledseal]

For Twitter users:
Anyone see this and think that Slipperduke had gone flytipping?!

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[Phippsy]

Shocking - I found out about this at 5.30pm. I had a works summer party - Bingo I thought... not so Bingo when I rolled up drunk to Fenchurch and the station was closed telling commuters to go to Liv St or get the district line to Barking. So I pitched up at Barking where no staff were working, there are 8 blooming platforms and the train that is to depart for the southend direction according to signage on the platform was not actually that train on platform 4 it was one on platform 7... 100 manic commuters sprinting to platform 7 as someone on a tanoy (an invisible man - literally no one was working at Barking) announced that it was departing and as the person in 1st place in the sprint (i was 3rd) reached the top of the hill up to platform 7 the train pulls away cue for lots of ***** and *****, mass expletives. Disappointing. Only the train drivers coming through Barking were informing us what was going on but were still getting lots of flak. This follows on from Monday morning where my 35 minutes commute took 1 hr 45 mins because of overhead power supply failure. Back to the good old days of C2C!!

I was one of the drivers stuck at Barking for over an hour with people asking me where this train or that train is coming or going too...Unfortunately in times of disruption everyone only thinks of themselves and their own journey home...I was not told by any member of staff or by control where any incoming train was going, we were told to just ask the signalman when we get in the train.

With natural occurrences like a bloody great tree falling down and taking out 3 stations then it does become a logistical nightmare for train planning, I like you believe that customers should be kept up to date every few minutes even if its irrelevant info....

I wouldn't go as far as saying back to the good old days after 1 week of service problems though !

And remember the next time people moan about the odd delay minutes once every few months think about how many times traffic stops on motorways etc every day??

Is there a solution to yesterdays problems? probably lack of communication from station staff i would say..its certainly not the drivers fault though like some idiots yesterday were implying..

 

[southend4ever]

Agree with you.
I think you may have been the chap I asked. Got back into Basildon at about 5 to 11 or 11...??

Too many jumped up people thinking the world is all about them. I quite enjoyed the train journey. there was hardly anyone on it!

 

[canveyshrimper]

I was one of the drivers stuck at Barking for over an hour with people asking me where this train or that train is coming or going too...Unfortunately in times of disruption everyone only thinks of themselves and their own journey home...I was not told by any member of staff or by control where any incoming train was going, we were told to just ask the signalman when we get in the train.

With natural occurrences like a bloody great tree falling down and taking out 3 stations then it does become a logistical nightmare for train planning, I like you believe that customers should be kept up to date every few minutes even if its irrelevant info....

I wouldn't go as far as saying back to the good old days after 1 week of service problems though !

And remember the next time people moan about the odd delay minutes once every few months think about how many times traffic stops on motorways etc every day??

Is there a solution to yesterdays problems? probably lack of communication from station staff i would say..its certainly not the drivers fault though like some idiots yesterday were implying..

I agree, and to be fair the communications yesterday weren't that bad, well at least they weren't at Liverpool St, apart from when the bloke wanted to use his loud speaker the bloody public address system kicked in over him. The improvement in c2c is remarkable and the last main complaint (communications) I had about them is getting there.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

If late trains are all you have to moan about - you have it good!

Most post was also late.

 

[Pubey]

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I'm glad someone else is on my wavelength!!

 

[ldnfatso]

Unfortunately in times of disruption everyone only thinks of themselves and their own journey home

Speaking as a commuter on NXEA line, thats flucking rich after all the bloody strikes we have had to put up with from Railway Workers over the last few years.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Speaking as a commuter on NXEA line, thats flucking rich after all the bloody strikes we have had to put up with from Railway Workers over the last few years.

Get used to it baby. There's a whole winter of discontent coming your way while Coucher pockets £650K for doing sweet **** all and jumps a sinking ship, maintenance staff get shafted.