More C2C madness

[Mad Cyril]

I got on the 17:15 from Fenchurch Street last night only for it to be cancelled at 17:16 due to the lack of any guard to run the train.

Upon leaving the train I looked on the departure board for details of the next train to Benfleet, which it was claimed departed platform 2 at 17:30, first stop Benfleet.

I boarded the train and had a little nap only to wake up at .......... Daghenham Dock! The idiots had put the wrong details up on the departure board and I was stuck on a one way trip to Pitsea via every station in between.

Eventually made it to Pitsea and crossed the bridge to wait for the next train to Benfleet (as did about 100 other people).

Net result? I wasted 50 minutes of my life (which I'll never get back) due to the incompetence of C2C.

What are these jokers playing at?

 

[steveh1510]

They had to replatform trains at short notice because of the guardless train sat at platform 1. There were constant announcements and apologies about it, but I guess you had to be awake to hear them.

I got on the 17.35 which got changed from platform 4 to 2.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Quote[/b] (steveh1510 @ Aug. 03 2004,15:20)]They had to replatform trains at short notice because of the guardless train sat at platform 1. There were constant announcements and apologies about it, but I guess you had to be awake to hear them.

I got on the 17.35 which got changed from platform 4 to 2.

Why put wrong details up on the board then.

No information is better than wrong information and it might have saved me a journey from hell through Bandit country.

 

[Napster]

Fortunately I avoided all this

 

[steveh1510]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Aug. 03 2004,15:22)]

Quote[/b] (steveh1510 @ Aug. 03 2004,15:20)]They had to replatform trains at short notice because of the guardless train sat at platform 1. There were constant announcements and apologies about it, but I guess you had to be awake to hear them.

I got on the 17.35 which got changed from platform 4 to 2.

Why put wrong details up on the board then.

No information is better than wrong information and it might have saved me a journey from hell through Bandit country.

Yep, fair point, don't know.

Arse and Elbow disease I guess.....

 

[Davros]

Me to Naps
Got the 5 o'clock
Its not the trains that are always the problem tho
I nearly made the 4.45 yesterday, and would have to but for the to ignorant large cows takin up the width of the stairs through Fenchurch street!
There what cause the most missed trains

Dave

 

[Mad Cyril]

Quote[/b] (dave @ Aug. 03 2004,15:30)]Me to Naps
Got the 5 o'clock
Its not the trains that are always the problem tho
I nearly made the 4.45 yesterday, and would have to but for the to ignorant large cows takin up the width of the stairs through Fenchurch street!
There what cause the most missed trains

Dave

There should be a special compulsory carriages for

1: Fat people.

2: Women who want to:

A: Talk loudly to each other about absolutely F-all.
B: Bitch loudly about their colleagues.

3.Anyone covered in dirt from a building site.

 

[Javea Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Aug. 03 2004,15:40)]There should be a special compulsory carriages for

1: Fat people.

You lookin' fer a smack in the maaf ...

WS

 

[The Artful Shrimper]

You will be pleased to know that yours truly has missed the keystone cop antics of C2C these last three weeks due to a dodgy cartilidge, I have been told however that on my return to work next Monday all hitches should be resolved and avoided. I have also been credited with the weeks i've been sick by C2C which I intend to spend on Beer, Wine and Curries.

 

[Davros]

I never knew C2C gave u money back on ur season ticket if u were off sick. Hmm, i feel a cunnin plan coming!!

What also annoys me on the trains is when midegts sit in the extra leg room seats. OK so i know they're meant for disabled ppl, and not for long legged ppl, but im 6ft and ur 5ft, do the f***ing maths you inside leg measurement!!

Dave

 

[Mad Cyril]

Quote[/b] (dave @ Aug. 03 2004,16:23)]What also annoys me on the trains is when midegts sit in the extra leg room seats. OK so i know they're meant for disabled ppl, and not for long legged ppl, but im 6ft and ur 5ft, do the f***ing maths you inside leg measurement!!

Being 6' 2" myself I find myself agreeing with you on this one.

Another thing that really annoys me is when you see a non commuter on a rush hour train with bags of shopping all over the seats or a huge great suitcase stopping someone from sitting down.

 

[Leeboy]

yup, and school holidays are the best, when parents drag their whinging brats to the Smoke then take up all the seats for us commuters who've been at work all day.
They should be banned from using Rush Hour trains

 

[steveh1510]

And ugly people, ban them too.

 

[* ORM *]

Quote[/b] (Napster @ Aug. 03 2004,15:23)]Fortunately I avoided all this

If you came to work on a proper railway line you could avoid this every day

 

[The Artful Shrimper]

There are pleasures to be had on the C2C.

I remember once when a rather large bloke was spread over two seats, I told my workmate with me as we ambled up the aisle looking for seats, in a loud voice" He must be rich he's got two seats". Fatty looked sheepishly about as those around him grinned and eyed him before a more subtle workmen piped up "Fat C*&T".

Also, The West Ham bloke from Basildon, if you've seen/heard you'll know. he shouts down his mobile about meeting his mates at wetherspoons for the curry night."Sweet Sweet!" he bellows."Sorted! Be There BRO!!!" etc. Relentless drivel.Hillarious.

The nasal speaking sort who gets off at Benfleet. For months and months we endured her tales of how wonderful her boyfriend is and where they were going on holiday, the whole carriage heard her gossip in this really annoying pinched nosed accent. One week she wasn't there. The following week, shadows under her eyes we all heard how her bloke had ran off with "Sue" one of her friends, one of her friends that she had been bragging to for weeks.

etc etc. Edgar Allen Poe could write a novel about the observations of one man walking around the corner, he would have loved C2C

 

[Mad Cyril]

Every FGE passenger must have encountered the crazy woman on FGE.

As soon as she got on the train she would start rocking back and forth, scratching the windows and continually mutter 'please let me out, I just want to get out'.

If the train was delayed it pushed her over the edge and she used to start crying.

Woe betide anyone who tried to comfort her though because she would then lash out and start screaming.

Makes you wonder why she chose to commute.

 

[Gremlin]

Quote[/b] (The Artful Shrimper @ Aug. 04 2004,10:19)]The nasal speaking sort who gets off at Benfleet. For months and months we endured her tales of how wonderful her boyfriend is and where they were going on holiday, the whole carriage heard her gossip in this really annoying pinched nosed accent. One week she wasn't there. The following week, shadows under her eyes we all heard how her bloke had ran off with "Sue" one of her friends, one of her friends that she had been bragging to for weeks.

Unfortunately those who travel from or through Benfleet station are blighted by the presence there of swarms of irritating migrants from a muddy isle that lies just off the coast.

And I'm not talking about the hoverflies.

 

[Leeboy]

Quote[/b] (The Artful Shrimper @ Aug. 04 2004,10:19)]Also, The West Ham bloke from Basildon, if you've seen/heard you'll know. he shouts down his mobile about meeting his mates at wetherspoons for the curry night."Sweet Sweet!" he bellows."Sorted! Be There BRO!!!" etc. Relentless drivel.Hillarious.

hopefully that's the same tw*t who I had to suffer on the Friday night before their play-off - was going on and on about the game, how rubbish Palace were, where they were going to meet etc.etc. then I found out they were watching it in A PUB and not even going!

Oh how I laughed that Sunday afternoon when I thought of him and his fellow Burberry-and-sovereign-ring-wearing Chav mates

 

[Birri]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Aug. 04 2004,10:32)]Every FGE passenger must have encountered the crazy woman on FGE.

As soon as she got on the train she would start rocking back and forth, scratching the windows and continually mutter 'please let me out, I just want to get out'.

If the train was delayed it pushed her over the edge and she used to start crying.

Woe betide anyone who tried to comfort her though because she would then lash out and start screaming.

Makes you wonder why she chose to commute.

She gets on at Rochford the best one was a couple of people tried to calm her down and she just kept shouting f##k off you are lieing c##ts.This was while we were stuck somewhere between stratford and liverpool street, waiting for signals/brokendown train etc. She then started trying to bash the window out with her fists and head to escape. When we got into liverpool st she proceeded to rant @ the driver and any guards standing nearby.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Quote[/b] (Birri @ Aug. 04 2004,12:35)]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Aug. 04 2004,10:32)]Every FGE passenger must have encountered the crazy woman on FGE.

As soon as she got on the train she would start rocking back and forth, scratching the windows and continually mutter 'please let me out, I just want to get out'.

If the train was delayed it pushed her over the edge and she used to start crying.

Woe betide anyone who tried to comfort her though because she would then lash out and start screaming.

Makes you wonder why she chose to commute.

She gets on at Rochford the best one was a couple of people tried to calm her down and she just kept shouting f##k off you are lieing c##ts.This was while we were stuck somewhere between stratford and liverpool street, waiting for signals/brokendown train etc. She then started trying to bash the window out with her fists and head to escape. When we got into liverpool st she proceeded to rant @ the driver and any guards standing nearby.

Yeah, that's the one.

She should be banned from travelling by train.