I am really sorry, but you are probably in the wrong place.I have been writing this blog now for three years and it does have a general focus on public transport in London and the South East of England.
Consequently on a day when public transport seems to have gone into meltdown, it is almost inevitable that a large number of travel related queries will have the various search engines send people in this general direction.
I was never going to be going to London today. If I had done, I wouldn't have been able to travel by bus ('cos there weren't any) and much of the London Underground seemed to fall apart, but walking would have been fine by me. Chiltern Railways had a few cancellations during the day (particularly on the route via Amersham shared with the Metropolitan Line), but generally they had a better day than most of the railway companies in the South East.
Because I didn't go to London, you will have to make do with this picture of a station in my part of rural Buckinghamshire, showing that we've had a pitifully small amount of snow so far - hence why Chiltern Railways have done so well today.
There are some published timetable alterations on Chiltern Railways tomorrow, Tuesday 3rd February 2009, and I think they've done pretty well by also suggesting (and inserting) alternative train stops.
It's not all good though - I am building up to a rant!
I hope you got home OK and that you have a better day of it tomorrow than you probably had today. The weather forecast is not brilliant.
By the way, can anyone explain why the Waterloo & City Line was out of service for much of the day due to the weather, when it is totally underground?
1 comment:
Lack of staff, possibly? I remember when I looked at applying to drive for the LU, they really wanted people who lived close to the lines so that they could be called in at short notice to cover sickness etc.
Wouldn't surprise me if they had to abandon this policy, due to it being... er... "location sexist" or something, and now a large proportion of the drivers commute from far away places like Scotland, Poland or the Moon, meaning they get caught by the bloody snow (or Moon cheese land slides) and can't get in.
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