The Ticket Collector

Notwork Rail overuns again

Ok so its a bank holiday and the weather outside is well stormy to say the least, its raining and some of the Thameslink route is flooded.

But to top it all, as with all bank holidays Notwork Rail has decided to improve the track and completly shut down the line.
However today they decided at the last minute they were going to over run and not give back the line to the signallers at the correct time.

This caused huge nock on delays, and a few services were cancelled, other services were running with up to 1 hours delays.

It doesnt rain problems but it pours them.

Arriving into work today I discovered that London Bridge was closed due to a incident in south bermondsey. Guess what it involved, yep cylinders again, so FCC were diverted via Elephant and Castle.

After yesterdays problems at Stevenage what with points and a failed GNER unit, it seems to be that time of the week again.

To top it all a 365 unit decided to fail just after leaving Hitchin Platform 1, this caused severe delays to all services from Peterborough and Cambridge to London. This train took around 30-45 minutes to be shunted back to Hitchin South sidings.

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What happened yesterday? Well there was a power surge in some of the signalling equipment in the Stevenage area. This also caused problems to the points and they would not respond. Furthermore this was compounded by a failed GNER pantograph in the same area.

Minor delays due to Signalling Problems at Stevenage

There are currently delays due to problems with the Signals and Points in the Stevenage area. Delays of up to 50mins are expected. Trains in both directions are affected, with GNER and Hull Trains also affected.

It is expected normal services will resume in 2-3 hours.

17:22 Kings Cross to Royston service is Cancelled.
17:53 Kings Cross to Peterborough service is Cancelled.
18:22 Kings Cross to Royston is short formed of 4 carriages.
19:07 London Kings Cross to Peterborough Cancelled.
23:15 London Kings Cross to Ely Cancelled

17:50 Kings Cross to Leeds is Cancelled. (Peterborough at 18:39)
18:20 Kings Cross to Newcastle is Cancelled. (Stevenage at 18:41; Peterborough at 19:13)
18:33 Kings Cross to Leeds Cancelled. (Peterborough at 19:29)

New Timetable on FCC

A new timetable offically came into effect today, but not a lot of it was implemented due to the fact there was engineering works happening on most of the GN route.

Tommorrow (Monday) will be interesting as a lot of trains will be leaving slightly eariler and most people will still arrive at the stations at the same time as usual and then start moaning at the staff because they didnt bother to check that the trains might have changed!
GNER also have a a new timetable out, this has the extra London to Leeds services implemented in it.
The full timetable for FCC can be found online here.

Should I keep this blog running?

I know this blog is popular what with all the visits from various people and employees of big major companies visiting on their company internets.

But the thing that is starting to nark me off, is the fact that I am not getting any reconigtion for doing this blog. I know big major newspaper companies do visit this site, more then likley to see what the latest thing thats been leaked is. But since The Times decided to steal the content of this site I have not listed anything which was not in the Public Domain. I have plenty of juicy documents sent to me from my contact in the DfT about the new railway franchises. Did you know for example that theyve already decided on the final 2 for the ECML?

Now I have not had any awards, have not had any big newspapers mention this site in their papers even though they obviously visit for the leaked documents. I spend a lot of time on this blog and am thinking why do I bother. Feel free to comment.

On another note well done to Disgruntled Commuter who has been shortlisted in the Metro blog awards.