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GA have responded to the EADT's questions - nothing unpredictable about their answers and deflection. The response about why other operators are not effected but they are is a classic - basically saying that it's because that Network Rail are having maintenance trains on the line whilst also...

That's the problem, if you're needing to get an early train it really is pot luck and short of getting up at 4am and having a look there is no real way of knowing which means you can't plan anything. At least with the trains later in the day you have a bit of notice, but for people heading to...

So was it platform 1 or 3B in the end? Those walls of text take up so much room that sometimes even on the table of departures screens you can only have 3 services listed which is useless. The old screens just had a short sentence of description text and therefore could hold far more with the...

Bet hedging time. Colleague in Stowmarket has to be in Lowestoft for 09:45 in the morning for a business meeting. Which of these ways would be the most likely to run: 07:35 Ipswich to Lowestoft 07:55 Norwich to Lowestoft 08:55 Norwich to Lowestoft From looking at the last week, 08:55 from...

My issue has never been with the front line staff, it has been with management so please do not take any criticism personally since I know there are a lot of good people still in Greater Anglia that are a credit to the company. My criticism is coming from the place that the issues have an...

I have used the buffet perhaps twice in the last 3 years. Both times were when I was running from a connecting train or from a tube onto a Norwich service when I had no time to pick up anything at the station. There is nothing appealing for me on the GA buffet. I used GWR buffets a bit more...

They've appalling. At Ipswich tonight the sheer amount of animations on the screens in the booking hall was very visually disturbing. There's no need to keep animating the calling points over and over again and doing wipe effects to constantly reload the same screen. It's flashy for flashy...

Was out on the network today on the East Suffolk and Wherry lines and I have to say that the 755s I saw didn't sound the most healthy under rails or moving away, nothing major bu not exactly smooth sounding. Had the joy of being on the 17:02 from Lowestoft to Ipswich, which was a 156, late...

That's the line I need to use today unfortunately!! Are tickets from lowestoft being allowed via Norwich view of this to get to say Ipswich. Heard conflicting reports of this since the fare via Norwich is more expensive than direct.

Problems on Norwich/Ipswich to Lowestoft services now. Apparently due to slippery rails caused by rail head adhesion problems - is this specific to the 755s again? Might have to go to Saxmundham tomorrow afternoon, wish me luck that I'll get home before midnight and without an expensive taxi ride!

Someones going to have to cough up the delay repay bill which is going to be huge. The most interesting thing of the local press articles today was the talk that staff had been speaking to the press about the situation and clearly had been feeding the press bits of information as to what is...

360s are all due off least on 30th August 2020 according to Angel Trains themselves. The problem is that quite a few of the 12 car booked services lately are 8 cars anyway because of both train faults and the number of 321s that are being used on Norwich to London services with up to 6 sets...

Looks like the middle of next year is likely to see plenty of fun and games with the EMU fleet then. Looks quite likely the 360s may be returning off lease before there is anything to replace them and even when the Aventras do come in they are going to be plagued by the usual start of bathtub...

Rumour has it that the local press have had enough and are going to demand answers and have been speaking to sources to reveal things.

Jamie Burles has finally spoken and Greater Anglia have today issued a press release, not about the current problems, but hailing the further roll out of these great new trains...

Does delay repay apply to overcrowding to the point you cannot board on Greater Anglia? I recently claimed back for this on South Western Railway and they were even advising us to do this and had area on form just for these situations but Greater Anglia don't say anything about this. GA tend...

They might get more answers from the Italian lot, since from what I understand there is no need to press them into service due to a lack of stock like there is here.

Stadler have a blame culture, or so we have read here, whilst it seems Greater Anglia may have one too. That's not a great combination especially when the later tends to be very protective of it's brand. The chances of getting things resolved quickly and effectively are not high if everyone is...

Greater Anglia seem to have little interest in me or you. They have a brand to protect. Reputation to protect and face to save. The fact the only time the MD has spoken in the last couple of weeks about issues is when the RMT started saying trains were unsafe illustrates that. No words at all...

I assume you are talking about this? https://railcolornews.com/2019/10/30/it-stadler-flirt-bemus-for-valle-daosta-enters-service-but-not-without-problems/ This bit raised a few eyebrows