On Dec 20, 6:25*pm, D7666 wrote:

Todays saga [...]

Yesterday late evening FCC were promising, well hoping, to provide a
normal Monday service, albeit with the big caveat that freezing fog
was expected (i.e. it could still all go tits up). By the sounds of it
the Farringdon power failure really knackered things up - could that
be put down to freezing fog? - but the separate power failure they
cite that affected live information systems sounds kinda rubbish/lame.

I think the Sutton loop and Sevenoaks services fell apart completely -
someone I know who was travelling up from south of the river found
themselves on what the station PIS had apparently stated was a train
to a Thameslink North destination (Bedford or Luton or something, not
sure), which actually then went on to Victoria - was early and the
recollection a little hazy, but a message on the FCC site seemed to
back up the idea some (peak?) trains may have gone to/from Vic.
Someone else travelling back south from Thameslink North just said it
was a mess (info sounded shabby but got no details). And just heard of
someone else (not on the TL route but on Southeastern) waiting at a
station finding a mystery unannounced train pulling in to another
platform (seemingly something running v late) - such tales are far
from unusual, and of course on parts of the network it's the CIS/PIS
that feeds the LDB system - anyhow point being that those who say
'look at the LDBs to get the true picture' evidently don't appreciate
that the LDBs can be a work of fiction at times like this. Anyway,
apparently one shouldn't "whinge"...

"Mizter T" wrote:

I think the Sutton loop and Sevenoaks services fell apart completely -
someone I know who was travelling up from south of the river found
themselves on what the station PIS had apparently stated was a train
to a Thameslink North destination (Bedford or Luton or something, not
sure), which actually then went on to Victoria - was early and the
recollection a little hazy, but a message on the FCC site seemed to
back up the idea some (peak?) trains may have gone to/from Vic.

As I arrived at Vic circa 08.45*, there were two FCC 319s heading out on the
South Eastern side.

Chris

* Should have arrived at London Bridge at 07.20-ish, but both the 05.45 and
06.30 off Seaford were cancelled due, allegedly, to unit failures - 313s I
presume.