A minute's delay on the tube from Edgware Road to Waterloo last night caused me to just miss the fast train to Hersham I'd planned to take. Then, the train I was able to take was two minutes late within Zones 1-6, making me 28 minutes late overall.
Coming into work this morning, the train was again two minutes late, again with the delay accrued within Zones 1-6. This made me miss the intended connecting tube to Edgware Road, and the one I was able to catch was seven minutes late, owing to being held at a red signal. That adds another 10 minutes delay this morning.
In total, then, since yesterday morning, that's 38 minutes' delay for £95.
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Thursday, 16 May 2013
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Perfect score and perfectly pathetic
A one minute-delay on yesterday's tube journey from Edgware Road to Waterloo did not make me miss my train, which was three minutes late (£7.50).
This morning was another matter altogether. After dropping my daughter off at day care, I took the train from Hampton Court to Waterloo. For the first time I can remember, it arrived exactly on time. But the trouble began after that. I went down to the Bakerloo Line, in order to catch the 09:34 to Edgware Road.
After sitting on the aforementioned train on the platform for nine minutes, trying to make out a series of inaudible excuses from the driver, I eventually did hear the platform announcer telling us the entire line was now suspended, owing to a passenger action at Charing Cross.
I managed to jump on the 09:48 Northern Line north-bound, thinking to change at Euston to get to King's Cross, and thence via the Circle, Metropolitan, or Hammersmith & City Lines to Edgware Road/Paddington, from where I can walk to work. This tube train was on time. The next (the Northern Line south-bound to King's Cross) was one minute late because we were 'being held at a red signal in order to regulate the service'.
Changed to Circle (etc.) Line platforms. Nope: no service from those platforms owing to signal failure. Left station, and took two buses to get to work - finally - at 10:51. That's one hour, four minutes later than should be the case. £160. And a terrific Tube Bingo card with two days to run!
This morning was another matter altogether. After dropping my daughter off at day care, I took the train from Hampton Court to Waterloo. For the first time I can remember, it arrived exactly on time. But the trouble began after that. I went down to the Bakerloo Line, in order to catch the 09:34 to Edgware Road.
After sitting on the aforementioned train on the platform for nine minutes, trying to make out a series of inaudible excuses from the driver, I eventually did hear the platform announcer telling us the entire line was now suspended, owing to a passenger action at Charing Cross.
I managed to jump on the 09:48 Northern Line north-bound, thinking to change at Euston to get to King's Cross, and thence via the Circle, Metropolitan, or Hammersmith & City Lines to Edgware Road/Paddington, from where I can walk to work. This tube train was on time. The next (the Northern Line south-bound to King's Cross) was one minute late because we were 'being held at a red signal in order to regulate the service'.
Changed to Circle (etc.) Line platforms. Nope: no service from those platforms owing to signal failure. Left station, and took two buses to get to work - finally - at 10:51. That's one hour, four minutes later than should be the case. £160. And a terrific Tube Bingo card with two days to run!
Monday, 12 November 2012
Beer, bouncy castles and bingo
UPDATE: A very happy birthday to London Overground, which turned five today. Said London Mayor Boris Johnson (with his usual apparent complete unawareness that he's just said something very, very funny):
Bit of a bumper crop of delays for you this morning, since I'm including a couple of trips over the weekend that I was just too tired to write about.
On Saturday afternoon, I took my daughter into Kingston so she could visit the Jellybugs play cafe (she is obsessed with the bouncy castle there at the moment). I would have taken the car, but she insisted on the bus.
The bus in was three minutes late, and I'm calling it eight minutes late returning, since the first bus (a 216) that arrived refused to let on any more passengers as it was so full. This entirely avoidable situation is due to poor planning of Saturday afternoon services by TfL, so they have to pay for it.
That evening, I spontaneously decided to meet my best friend for a drink (at Stein's - where else?). The bus in was on time (though we did have the bus driver shout at all his passengers generally to stop pushing the button more than once for a stop. Given that it was pushed twice, in quick succession, and therefore likely either someone thinking they hadn't pushed it firmly enough the first time, or just two coincidentally close pushes by separate people on different decks, the driver's reaction seems a little extreme. Of course, I don't know how long he'd been putting up with this terrible, terrible situation, but it still seems to me he should either grow up or get another job. The trip back was delayed by three minutes.
This morning, I got some good delays and some new Tube Bingo scratches to begin the week: the train into Waterloo was nine minutes late, owing to a passenger taken ill, and the connecting tube to Edgware Road was three minutes' delayed due to being held at a red signal. I arrived at my final destination a total of 11 minutes late. Added to the weekend's adventures, that makes a total of 25 minutes (or £62.50) since I last updated. A promising start.
"London Overground has become a shining example of how railways should be run..."
Bit of a bumper crop of delays for you this morning, since I'm including a couple of trips over the weekend that I was just too tired to write about.
On Saturday afternoon, I took my daughter into Kingston so she could visit the Jellybugs play cafe (she is obsessed with the bouncy castle there at the moment). I would have taken the car, but she insisted on the bus.
The bus in was three minutes late, and I'm calling it eight minutes late returning, since the first bus (a 216) that arrived refused to let on any more passengers as it was so full. This entirely avoidable situation is due to poor planning of Saturday afternoon services by TfL, so they have to pay for it.
That evening, I spontaneously decided to meet my best friend for a drink (at Stein's - where else?). The bus in was on time (though we did have the bus driver shout at all his passengers generally to stop pushing the button more than once for a stop. Given that it was pushed twice, in quick succession, and therefore likely either someone thinking they hadn't pushed it firmly enough the first time, or just two coincidentally close pushes by separate people on different decks, the driver's reaction seems a little extreme. Of course, I don't know how long he'd been putting up with this terrible, terrible situation, but it still seems to me he should either grow up or get another job. The trip back was delayed by three minutes.
This morning, I got some good delays and some new Tube Bingo scratches to begin the week: the train into Waterloo was nine minutes late, owing to a passenger taken ill, and the connecting tube to Edgware Road was three minutes' delayed due to being held at a red signal. I arrived at my final destination a total of 11 minutes late. Added to the weekend's adventures, that makes a total of 25 minutes (or £62.50) since I last updated. A promising start.
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Take 5 - no, make that 12
UPDATE: went to a meeting this afternoon in the City. I took the 13:44 from Paddington, which was meant to arrive at Farringdon at 14:00. Instead, it arrived three minutes late and was subsequently held in a tunnel between stations at a red signal. After that, they decided to terminate the tube at the very next stop, Edgware Road. Not only was no explanation given for this, it was in no way intimated that this hadn't always been the plan. The next train along to Farringdon should have been the 13:52, which was a minute late. I arrived at Farringdon four minutes late in the end.
Heading straight home from this meeting, rather than back to the office, my train from Chancery Lane to Waterloo was delayed, but not enough to make me miss my connecting overground, so it doesn't count. The three minute delay of that train, however, does. So that's another £17.50 for today.
Traffic caused me to miss my train this morning - irritatingly, I arrived in the car park in time to seem the train pulling away. That doesn't count, though (I'd be considerably theoretically richer if it did). What does count is the two-minute delay on the next train in I caught (no explanation offered), and the subsequent three-minute delay on the Bakerloo Line train I was forced to catch following that (again, no explanation offered).
Five minutes in total: £12.50.
In other news, Brixton's underground station was temporarily closed this morning, apparently due to an earlier signal failure at Vauxhall. Quite how this causes a station elsewhere to close, I don't know, but TfL (according to information at the time of writing) couldn't be bothered to report the closure and pretended the Victoria Line was suffering from only 'minor delays', while allowing regular commuters to queue outside on the streets on this particularly brisk October morning.
Heading straight home from this meeting, rather than back to the office, my train from Chancery Lane to Waterloo was delayed, but not enough to make me miss my connecting overground, so it doesn't count. The three minute delay of that train, however, does. So that's another £17.50 for today.
Traffic caused me to miss my train this morning - irritatingly, I arrived in the car park in time to seem the train pulling away. That doesn't count, though (I'd be considerably theoretically richer if it did). What does count is the two-minute delay on the next train in I caught (no explanation offered), and the subsequent three-minute delay on the Bakerloo Line train I was forced to catch following that (again, no explanation offered).
Five minutes in total: £12.50.
In other news, Brixton's underground station was temporarily closed this morning, apparently due to an earlier signal failure at Vauxhall. Quite how this causes a station elsewhere to close, I don't know, but TfL (according to information at the time of writing) couldn't be bothered to report the closure and pretended the Victoria Line was suffering from only 'minor delays', while allowing regular commuters to queue outside on the streets on this particularly brisk October morning.
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