I was going up from Crawley to a game once, well crawling really and the excuse just before East Croydon was "Leaves on the tracks" well it didn't stop the Gatwick express bombing down towards the Airport at a rate of knots.

Strange that, never happens in Switzerland.

I never understood that. I was on a train which was running half hour late, which crawled in to London Bridge at 1MPH after other trains had sped past which would have ended up occupying the same platform.

I've had signal failure explained to me as well but I still don't get it. I understand the major safety implications but if you can't establish whether the track is clear, you don't just stop and surely there is a better way of telling e.g. with your eyes or CCTV.

I get the first train out of Thornton Heath most mornings and the train was delayed, no surprise. The reason being congestion on the track. There were no bloody trains on it so where's the congestion.

Of their own making when they decided to save money by reducing the amount of growth clearance on embankments.

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

Not to mention mistaking 750V DC third-rail electrification for a modern technology. Leaves on the line wil be endemic until it's ripped out and replaced with 25kV OHLE.

Then, if what happens up here is any indication, it'll be "signalling problems at Haymarket". That's because they're using 1960s technology for signalling too.

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