Everything's gone Pete Tong at Southampton today

[Drsatan]

Today, I got the 12:50 service from Romsey to Southampton Central, which was running 10 minutes late and was a 3-car 158. When I arrived at Southampton Central, I discovered that all electric services to Portsmouth Harbour (this means, Southern services to Victoria and Brighton, along with stoppers to Portsmouth & Southsea) and Weymouth had been canceled due to problems with the electricity supply. Bus replacement services were running to Portsmouth and Weymouth, from what I observed.

I'm surprised that SWT was able to organise replacement buses at short notice, although if you were a passenger traveling with lots of luggage you'd be pretty despondent to be placed onto a bus with not much luggage space.

Was anyone else caught up in this today?

 

[SWT Driver]

The juice rail was heavily iced, the Kraut Krap doesn't like anything but smooth juice to run on, I think the only ones across there (CSA-FRM) were FGW & the 0500 ex PMH - BSK via ESL all of course being diesel units.

I imagine things actually got a little heated as the Netley road services regularly carry up to 20 bikes (2 wheeled menaces) in the AM peak.

 

[Drsatan]

Strangely enough the London-bound services from Soton C were all advertised as on time when I was at Soton C (about 13:15)