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I appreciate that they try. It takes all of 5 minutes to arrange something like this, relatively speaking and helps to remind us that we're all human at the end of the day. People that complain "that they should be running trains rather than being funny" have no sense of humour and probably...

This was indeed one of the conditions of the franchise extension - and this might just be from my perspective, but true to their word, the condition of the toilets on-board improved dramatically. They were in service, cleaner, and had working water. If they weren't working, there was usually a...

If you ask their Twitter, they'll point you to something like this: The more precise reason I was given by another member of staff was that a cleaner was rather tragically juiced by the 750v whilst working on the sidings. As a result, there are currently very limited opportunities to empty the...

I know there have been threats to "get rid" of First Class on the SE Mainline, but I think this is largely unnecessary. As SE's 375 fleet has been refurbished, they've been relocating the First Class sections into the middle of the train, reducing the number of FC seats from about 24 down to...

Clearly, things did not go well in Lewisham - my sibling told me he spotted a "large army of emergency service vehicles" on Friday, so I assumed something was very much amiss. As for trying to attribute blame - of course the passengers never should have egressed themselves without instruction...

Looking at their coverage map, there are some areas marked as "intermittent" in the London area that I really wouldn't expect to be intermittent, but from my own experience using mobile data in some of these areas, fails to surprise me. A few areas that I remember having problems at: Between...

I looked in the obvious places - I just didn't check Timetables, because it didn't feel like the right place.

I noticed this yesterday whilst at Victoria - Gatwick Express trains were being advertised as only going as far as Redhill, calling at Clapham and East Croydon. Fast-forward to this morning and I started spotting various articles describing "chaos" at Redhill as the rail-replacement service...

ERTMS, simply put, is designed to simplify the functionaility of the signalling on the driver's side - instead of actively observing signals and speed signs, ERTMS consolidates all this information as a digital read-out in the cab. This is all very good until there is a failure of some...

They're a much needed crutch, but of course, isn't a cure-all. They're also not in a particularly great state either. One was running a Vic to Ashford service earlier this week and didn't get past Bromley because water was entering the driver's cab. Whether it was an AC defect or a leak, I'm not...

So we're now down to three: Stagecoach + Alstom Abellio + EJRC + Mitsui Govia Govia as-is have not done too bad a job since David Statham took over from Charles Horton, IMO. He has managed to nudge Southeastern off the bottom of the NRPS, despite the locals of Kent and SE London being a highly...

Last year, there was an AM Peak 12-coach 375 that was terminating at Blackfriars - one of the Southeastern peak services. They normally terminate in 3 or 4 as they are the bays, but on this particular morning, the train was routed into Platform 2. This is signalled as a bi-directional platform...

So, I had my first ride on one of these last week. I've had plenty of rides in their sister 700s as well as plenty of other modern-day commuter stock (375-379,387,450, etc.) so I'd like to think I've experienced enough to be able to give a fair opinion of them. For lack of a better description...

I thought I was the only person to notice this. On other networks (with far worse PPMs), people grumble and complain occasionally, but in Kent and SE London, if a Southeastern service left on time and the punter missed it because they were still running down the stairs, you'd think @Se_Railway...

I've actually switched jobs recently and now have a different commute along with it. The reduction in capacity was noticeable, but not intolerable. I won't complain, though, because I even spotted David Statham (Southeastern MD) on the Blackfriars starter a few times. Luckily for him, nobody...

I accept that for a lot of people the experience isn't great, but in a way, the railways are a victim of their own success. More people use the trains now than they did a few years ago and despite the London Bridge investment, other platforms aren't going to be extended any more than physically...

The only time I've ever seen revenue on board a Thameslink serviceis between Sevenoaks and Bromley South on a quiet Summer's evening, and they were Southeastern RPOs. Any other time I've been on a TL service, I've never encountered any sort of revenue protection, and there's plenty of...

I've heard zilch, I'm afraid!

It's such a shame they didn't order more of these. The high speed service is incredibly popular now, such that all the peak services need 12 coaches but cannot always have them and the problem gets a lot worse when a unit gets taken out of action, say, due to a DPD driver misusing a...

They still have their.... uh... quirks, from time to time, but most of the drivers know how to work-around them now. The PIS/CIS seems to be pretty consistent now, and the doors (usually) open and close when they're supposed to. Most of my experience of them is on the Sevenoaks line, where...