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Fair point, the doors were open as it all happened in Ebbsfleet station. A few people who were going for the racing got off and just went back to St Pancras on a SE Highspeed train. At least make up a believable lie though, anyone with half a brain could see it wasn't a signalling problem!

The 8.26 St Panc to Paris train was delayed at Ebbsfleet yesterday for a security alert, shocking scenes of organisation and communication from Eurostar as per normal. Stopped at Ebbsfleet to pick up and ended up sitting there for a good 20 minutes before the announcement came that there was...

Don't see how they could have killed anyone other than themselves in this situation. They're absolute morons and only people who understand how the tracks work should consider doing what they did. Officially they are trespassers but most judges would consider it in exceptional circumstances...

They're idiots but they're not criminals. At the end of the day, they just wanted to get home and were clueless about the equipment on railway lines like 90% of the travelling public probably are. There are a good number of them looking at the video too, I'd say at least an entire carriages...

I mean this really is moronic stuff on the video. I totally understand the motives for getting off the train but don't then moan about the hardship of the walk and if you can't identify live rails, you really should be staying on the train. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- If...

Please, the Police aren't going to waste time and resources chasing a girl on Twitter who broke off a train and walked along a railway line having been stuck onboard for 2 hours. Least of all in South London where they have quite enough on their plate after recent weeks.

I see your points (wasn't aware BTP/Met officially closed the line from NRE and Twitter) but the organisation and communication of contingency seems to be very poor. Surely more services can go to London Bridge etc.? Can someone explain why all four lines need to be closed too? Surely with...

It is a farce though, whilst not defending actions like that, I can understand why people do it in these circumstances. People have better things to do with their evenings than sit on a 377 in Norbury for an entire evening. Southern's management of these relatively minor incidents (it's not...

There seems to be a problem on the line at least once a month at the moment, I'll be glad to finally move to the South Coast and have done with the commute!

That would be ridiculous given it's the common diversion from East Croydon to Victoria. Wouldn't surprise me though at the same time!

Only realised last night that Southern have started refreshing their 377s. The interior of 377116 had totally been done up in their green colours but retaining the old Connex style tables in all four carriages rather than the ironing board seats. Was a lot nicer and lighter and spacious than...

I'm a Gold Card holder between East Croydon and Portslade and by 6-7pm last night, I had to make a decision whether to stop down on the South Coast as I suspected it would take the best part of three hours then had to be in at 9am this morning. In the end, I stumped up for a hotel and a change...

The East and West coastway's officially start at Brighton. Tempted to buy a few essentials and crash at a friends or a hotel though, back in work at Portslade at 9am tomorrow.

Any ideas how to get from Brighton to East Croydon tonight? Head over to Havant or Hastings?

Apologies, I thought they were outright refusing EC advance tickets. My bad.

What time exactly did the wires came down? I left Leeds for East Croydon on the 10.38 TPE to Selby to change onto the 11.02 HT service to London. Within five minutes we were told that the train would terminate at Doncaster, does anyone know why HT couldn't run the 180s via Lincoln? Would have...

I see they have the bloody holes in the overhead luggage racks like the newer 377s. Not fun if you put a wet coat or umbrella up there... Terrible design flaw.

Had a peep from the 19.19 Brighton - Victoria service tonight and seemed to be a very similar interior to the London metro services with the high back seats but I could just make out armrests I think!

Absolutely spot on which is the crux of Joe Public's argument and the key to the large negative press coverage of the story. It's not an unreasonable argument!

Interesting take on it from a blog on the Economist site and some interesting comments: http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2010/09/ticketing_rules As I say, if we all played by every rule in every rulebook and T&Cs document, we'd never get anything done and we'd turn into a...