On 9 Sep, 14:26, "Batman55" wrote:
"Mizter T" wrote in message

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On Sep 9, 10:37 am, Paul wrote:



From the South Eastern Railway website:-

Track improvements and maintenance are taking place from 02:30 on
12/09/10 to 04:00 on 13/09/10 between Nunhead and Bickley.
[snip]
Furthermore, there is an additional Metro
train service that operates between London Victoria and Bromley North
calling at -in alphabetical order-: Denmark Hill, Grove Park,
Lewisham, Nunhead and Peckham Rye.
[snip]

Why alphabetical order - what's wrong with the order in which they
call at these stations (Denmark Hill, Peckham Rye, Nunhead, Lewisham,
Grove Park) - it's as though whoever wrote that couldn't be bothered
to work out what order these stations came in! It reflects the lack of
care that often goes into such engineering works notices, which is
daft considering that alternative train services are being laid on.

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I have raised the alphabetical issue with them before as it can easily
mislead someone. I suspect they are so pig-ignorant that they couldn't list
them correctly if they tried.

So far as relying on the SE site, I was; except that it says, for train
times, go to the Journey Planner!!!

Anyway there is a notice on the ticket hall door at Bromley South saying "No
trains".

Thanks.

MaxB

They are pretty pig ignorant about where their tracks actually go.

A complaint about a train diverted via Sidcup still being advertised
at platform 3 at Lewisham got no joy. Their letter referred to "last
minute platform changes" being necessary.

My complaint made it clear that platform 3 had been physically
impossible to reach for at least half an hour and that there had been
no announcement of a platform change anyway, last minute or
otherwise. This has happened more than once.

As at London Bridge and Waterloo East frequently, they ran the train
"on time" and unannounced through a different platform from the one
that people were waiting on.

They are crap. But to be fair, only in dealing with the complaint.
The initial problem was caused by Network Rail not giving a ****,
because SET staff on the ground have no more information than the
punters.