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Old November 23rd 10, 10:32 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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"Graeme" wrote:

MIG wrote:

On good form today with reports of South Eastern services suspended
between Shepherds Bush and Milton Keynes.

Their willingness to repeat nonsense for bulletin after bulletin is
often less obviously workable out than that one, like the time that
they kept announcing that services on the "Lewisham line" were being
diverted, when they meant that services between Dartford and Lewisham
via Bexleyheath were being diverted via Sidcup (rather important for
punters to know that they were NOT going via Bexleyheath, but WERE
going via Lewisham).

They do this sort of thing over and over. The newsreaders just keep
on dumbly reading it out every half hour. You'd think that the London
travel newsroom would have some vague idea about transport in London.


Blame it on the idiots who put out the press releases.


Such things are not normally communicated by press release - certainly not
'live' travel updates. However one only needs to look at some of the
examples of future engineering works information on TOC posters and websites
and the NRE site to see what a mangled mess can be made of communicating
such information - and likewise, the NRE current disruptions page can read
rather cryptically too (same can apply to some extent to the 'live' info
coming from the TOCs).