What A Way To Run A Company!
This article in Rail Magazine is entitled Driver Shortages And Train Issues Prompt GTR Remedial Plan.
Don’t I just know it!
Today, I arrived at Balham station by the reliable Northern Line to get a train to Streatham Hill station to take some pictures.
The first train was cancelleed and then there was a succession of trains going direct to Streatham Common station.
Eventually, after about half-an-hour a train did turn up and I took the train the one stop and took the pictures I wanted.
I then took a 159 bus to Streatham station, where i took more pictures.
The first train, that came went to Streatham Common station, where I took a couple of photos.
I was intending to get to Sutton, but that train appeared to be delayed. So when another train turned up that said it was going to West Croydon,I thought that would be a safe place, as I could get the Overground home.
But despite what it said on the front, it was an East Croydon train, so after a couple of stops, I got out at Selhurst station to see if it could be a terminal for The Streatham Virtual Tube.
It might be!
But then a Sutton train arrived and I thought that perhaps this might take me to West Croydon or Sutton, where I could get a train home.
We sat there like prats for perhaps ten minutes before the driver said he was waiting for a replacement. When the replacement didn’t come he took the train out of service.
An Epsom train then followed and I thought that this might get me home.
We sat there like prats for perhaps ten minutes before the driver said he was waiting for a replacement. When the replacement didn’t come he took the train out of service.
I did have a chat with a group of drivers, who were trying to get to work and they said, that it was all GTR’s fault as they were trying to cut costs.
The next train was for Caterham, so I got it to East Croydon, hoping to get a London Bruidge train.
One left as I arrived, but after fifteen minutes I was on a train to London Bridge.
Surprisingly, we got there without trouble.
I bought some food in M&S and then got a 141 bus home.
It’s not as if this sort of shambles is the only problem GTR has.
- There’s the non-working Class 700 trains!
- There’s the keeping of the Class 387 trains instead of passing them to GWR.
- There’s the dispute with the drivers.
- There’s the dispute with the conductors.
- There’s the dispute with the rest of the massed orchestras of the BBC, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Scotland. And not forgetting the Bethnal Green Big Band!
I blame the management!
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