bramling
Veteran Member
Upon arriving at Stevenage in the evening peak tonight I noticed two STM security guards on the platform. You only normally see security staff very late at night and then usually only in the booking hall.
I’ve noticed that this week. My Pullman service was cancelled this evening, although fortunately I was able to get an alternative service from St Pancras without too much trouble, albeit a boiling hot undesiro although on the plus side the train was virtually empty. Staff were really taking some stick, and the undesiro had the f word written alongside anywhere the Thameslink logo could be found.
Things are definitely not getting better, these last two days have been more of a shambles than any other. It’s like a slow lingering drowning, with a last gasp for air from a deluded and desperate Nick Brown. Where the senior management have let everyone down is their failure to recognise and/or highlight deficiencies in the FailedPlan2020. If us observers on here could see a mile off that it was going to be a shambles, so should highly experienced and paid senior management. As the ThamesLink/ ship finally sinks we might well see a mud-slinging contest as all the discredited chiefs try to save their own skin.
Incidentally, with 1R66 cancelled this evening, the Pullmans still being in Kings Cross as I write this, watch out for a cancellation or shortforming of one or more Baldock/Royston services tomorrow morning - unless they can find a way of getting the stock to Letchworth to make up the balance.
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