Information for GTR Southern passengers during strike (no DOO discussion)

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No; no idea what this means!

Corrected it. Should have been late. My phone has a habit of changing it to Katw via the predictive text. I try to spot them but don't always manage it.

 

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So tonight I'm at Clapham Junction and I let an East Grinstead train go, unaware, as I'd just arrived, that the 19.38 to Bognor Regius was delayed.

I soon saw it on the board. It was 19.31 when I arrived. At 19.45, there was finally an announcement about the delayed train. So 14 minutes of tannoy silence on the matter.

I even saw the train heading north that would form the service South.

When announcing the train they mean to one's the late running Horsham service. Surely after that, that one was cancelled. The automated announcements played very swiftly and twice.

Not sure why no automated announcements couldn't play about the trains being delayed. I know South West Trains often play such announcements.

The Bognor Regius train got delayed on route, having left Bognor on time. Despite a 12 minute delay at Gatwick Airport, they still ran it via Redhill. It then ended up following a stopping London Bridge service, causing it to be 19 minutes late by the time it reached East Croydon.

Yes I was on the Bognor into London - they made a real mess at Redhill with the Reigate half of the earlier late running Victoria service was stuck in platform 1 at RDH (waiting for the back end to arrive behind the Bognor), then signalled the Tonbridge to London Bridge into platform 2 whilst the Bognor sat outside (for at least 5 minutes before the Tonbridge came in).

Then as the Bognor had missed its slot at Stoats Nest it was pathed down the slows behind the London Bridge to platform 4 at ECR where a long wait ensued to get a platform, meanwhile several services passing on the mains.

 

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Yes I was on the Bognor into London - they made a real mess at Redhill with the Reigate half of the earlier late running Victoria service was stuck in platform 1 at RDH (waiting for the back end to arrive behind the Bognor), then signalled the Tonbridge to London Bridge into platform 2 whilst the Bognor sat outside (for at least 5 minutes before the Tonbridge came in).

Then as the Bognor had missed its slot at Stoats Nest it was pathed down the slows behind the London Bridge to platform 4 at ECR where a long wait ensued to get a platform, meanwhile several services passing on the mains.

Surely not!

 

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Yes I was on the Bognor into London - they made a real mess at Redhill with the Reigate half of the earlier late running Victoria service was stuck in platform 1 at RDH (waiting for the back end to arrive behind the Bognor), then signalled the Tonbridge to London Bridge into platform 2 whilst the Bognor sat outside (for at least 5 minutes before the Tonbridge came in).

Then as the Bognor had missed its slot at Stoats Nest it was pathed down the slows behind the London Bridge to platform 4 at ECR where a long wait ensued to get a platform, meanwhile several services passing on the mains.

No wonder they didn't put the reason up.

 

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Given the drivers are not longer being generous with their overtime, aka working to rule, I thought I'd reconvene this discussion and ask if their have been any work to rule timetable changes since it was last introduced?

They have had a long time to plan for it and although I'd not checked recently, previously they had said they weere working on their plans and would announce them once finished. Something like that anyway.

I see after the 7.23 Redhill to East Croydon service has left, there will be no direct train until 8.11. One can catch the 7.28 to Horley and change there. You need two tickets but I'm sure they would waiver that during this timetable period. That takes just 45 minutes but gets you in 9 minutes earlier than the 8.11.

It includes a 21 minute wait at Horley but if anyone has travelled between Brighton or Haywards Heath and stations on the Reading line, you'd be use to waiting 20 minutes for a connecting train. Again if you travel from Clapham Junction in the evening peak it can at times be quicker to wait 20+ minutes for thr next fast service towards Woking and beyond, than get a slow train. That are regular standard timetable occances so just imagine your on one of those journeys and maybe the wait wouldn't feel so bad.

This is being caused by the fact the 6.57 from Brighton, a Thameslink service, is not stopping at Redhill. I'm sure it did on previous work to rule timetable or if not the very last one, has done so in the last. The fire I can't see why it can't stop their tomorrow.

Yes it delays the train to Bedford but I was doing that previously too.

If they run it at the last minute would that make mockery of their timetable planning? After all they have had months to implement this. Alternatively it maybe that:

A) They want to discourage Redhill passengers from travelling.
B) They'd rather the other services were rammed.