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Blackheath is very busy during special events, the annual fireworks, the London Marathon, On Blackheath festival and other summer events.

The issue has been ongoing for months, SE has done very little communication to their paying customers about the issue, and their is no information in the public domain as to when it will be resolved. What else is one to assume other than they are not treating it as a high priority?

At my local SouthEastern metro station, there is a new announcement, after each train is announced, using a different pre-recorded voice “We are sorry but there is no accessible toilet facility on this train.” Which is pretty much every train at the moment.

Most SE trains are made up of multiple units so you can’t walk through the whole train. Even within a unit, the interconnecting doors are very temperemental, and you often can’t pass into the next carriage. Being electric doors, they are even less reliable when the power has been off for some...

Rebuild Charing Cross station as a 6-8 platform station over the Thames (as per Blackfriars). Make 2 of the platforms as a through route into a deep tunnel that pops up at Cannon Street. That way instead of terminating, trains can arrive at Charing Cross and depart from Cannon Street, reducing...

Could it be used to increase capacity London Bridge to Charing Cross / Cannon Street?

I’m struggling to understand that. Cannon Street has 7 terminating platforms fed by three platforms at London Bridge, whereas Charing Cross has 6 terminating platforms fed by four platforms at London Bridge.

Good point. SET were running fewer trains but longer trains, assuming that longer trains would be more resilient to ice. Are there enough pickup shoes on their trains? Sand boxes are fitted to increase grip for the wheels, but can anything be fitted to clear ice from the conductor rail? Should...

The issue is when to make the decision. If it takes an hour to mobilise staff and evacuate a full train that is not in a platform, and the estimate for getting the train moving is half an hour, then it makes perfect sense to not evacuate the train. If after half an hour, the estimate to get...

Yes we do. At the time the first train got stuck, the decision was made to clear the ice and get everyone moving again with the expectation that this would be the quickest resolution. By the time the option of moving the train into an occupied section was the best solution, the power was off...

Circle / H&C exit to Moorfields. There are validations but no barriers

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Travelling through LB yesterday, it looked like services on platform 4and 5 are now being shown on the platform indicators.

The outside conditions were worse on Friday, heavy snow through the day in SE London, and very cold. The Sidcup line had been suspended for at least four hours, due to poor rail conditions. The advice from SET was don’t travel, if you are home, stay home, if you are somewhere warm stay there...

All this talk about permissive working ignores a few facts which ruled that out as an option. For the first half hour or so all trains were stuck with power on, with the possible exception of the one trying to exit Lewisham and head to Blackheath, which was stuck because it couldn’t draw power...

Since Southeastern were running an emergency timetable with frequencies no more than half hourly and several routes closed, perhaps they should have held trains in stations until the route to the next station was clear? Difficult with Lewisham being a critical junction. Since they were running...

The first person to self-evacuate didn’t wait an hour.

Does the policy of switching off the juice until it can be proven that all trespassers are off the tracks lead to more people choosing to take the risk? Although it would be deemed unacceptable in our safety first culture today, perhaps a policy of carry on regardless unless there is direct...

2M48 left Lewisham at 1734 and got stuck just outside the station a few minutes later. SE twitter reported at 1813 that passcom activated on one of the trains stuck They were tweeting from 1820 that engineers were en route to get the train moving First reports of passengers self evacuating at...

What is the penalty for breaking the law in this case, who would prosecute them, and who would be prosecuted?