Since June last year I've been commuting in to work from Ladywell to
Charing Cross each morning. Up until recently, the service was
ideal. Almost never late, the odd cancellation but generally no
problems.

However, in the last couple of weeks, since the big snow, the service
on this line seems to have collapsed. Almost every morning there has
been a cancelled train, or short stock, or long delays. This leads to
overcrowding and the usual stress, etc.

Just wondering, have we just been unlucky on this line, or is
Southeastern having wider problems and taking trains away from the
Hayes line as it has some spare capacity in the peak periods?

Patrick

Patrick Osborne wrote:
Since June last year I've been commuting in to work from Ladywell to
Charing Cross each morning. Up until recently, the service was
ideal. Almost never late, the odd cancellation but generally no
problems.

However, in the last couple of weeks, since the big snow, the service
on this line seems to have collapsed. Almost every morning there has
been a cancelled train, or short stock, or long delays. This leads to
overcrowding and the usual stress, etc.

Just wondering, have we just been unlucky on this line, or is
Southeastern having wider problems and taking trains away from the
Hayes line as it has some spare capacity in the peak periods?

Patrick

My trains (SRT-VIC) in morning and evening peaks have been consistently
on time since 2 days after the snow. Southeastern seem to go through
phases of dumping loads of the 376s on the Hayes line, even at
weekends-not sure what their reliability is like (I know the Networkers
are quite a way down the Golden Spanner list, but IME most faults these
days seem to be solved by rebooting...)
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