Sabre999uk
Member
Hi all,
Today on the spur of the moment we took my 9 year old nephew from Havant to Southampton to watch trains and treated him to First Class, getting there was no problem. First sign of problems was an announcement that the 1210 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central was delayed due to a fault on a preceding train at Hilsea, this was repeated 5 minutes later immediately followed by another announcement that the same service was delayed due to a power supply problem at Hilsea.
After we returned from getting lunch the services from Portsmouth to Southampton were just shown as delayed.
The Cardiff Central - Portsmouth Harbour arrived at 1402, terminated & shunted to the bay platform, there then followed a rash of platform alterations as there was a points failure at the west end of the station which prevented the 1437 to Salisbury from calling at Millbrook.
Starting with the 1459 arrival from London Victoria all Southern services were announced as cancelled due to slippery rails, we were starting to wonder how to get home.
We had planned to get the 1633 Southern back to Havant but were advised by a announcement to take the 1605 FGW Service to Portsmouth Harbour and to change at Fareham onto the Southern service which would start from there. Before we left Southampton Central our destination on the platform display changed to Fareham only..... Apparently this was news to the guard as no announcement was made on the train even when we got to Fareham where there was a lot of confused passengers wondering why their train wasn't going any further and a replacement bus waiting running to Havant only. Passengers for Portsmouth were being told to take this to Havant then get a replacement bus to Portsmouth which didn't go down well.
Anyhow could anyone on here make sense of what happened for me? Was it train fault/power failure/slippery rails or all of the above?
Also have I got any chance of recompense for the first class travel we couldn't use on the way home? I'm not too bothered if I can't as my nephew still had a good time.
Thanks for putting up with my ramblings
Steve
Today on the spur of the moment we took my 9 year old nephew from Havant to Southampton to watch trains and treated him to First Class, getting there was no problem. First sign of problems was an announcement that the 1210 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central was delayed due to a fault on a preceding train at Hilsea, this was repeated 5 minutes later immediately followed by another announcement that the same service was delayed due to a power supply problem at Hilsea.
After we returned from getting lunch the services from Portsmouth to Southampton were just shown as delayed.
The Cardiff Central - Portsmouth Harbour arrived at 1402, terminated & shunted to the bay platform, there then followed a rash of platform alterations as there was a points failure at the west end of the station which prevented the 1437 to Salisbury from calling at Millbrook.
Starting with the 1459 arrival from London Victoria all Southern services were announced as cancelled due to slippery rails, we were starting to wonder how to get home.
We had planned to get the 1633 Southern back to Havant but were advised by a announcement to take the 1605 FGW Service to Portsmouth Harbour and to change at Fareham onto the Southern service which would start from there. Before we left Southampton Central our destination on the platform display changed to Fareham only..... Apparently this was news to the guard as no announcement was made on the train even when we got to Fareham where there was a lot of confused passengers wondering why their train wasn't going any further and a replacement bus waiting running to Havant only. Passengers for Portsmouth were being told to take this to Havant then get a replacement bus to Portsmouth which didn't go down well.
Anyhow could anyone on here make sense of what happened for me? Was it train fault/power failure/slippery rails or all of the above?
Also have I got any chance of recompense for the first class travel we couldn't use on the way home? I'm not too bothered if I can't as my nephew still had a good time.
Thanks for putting up with my ramblings
Steve