Someone spent an hour waiting at Brondesbury Park station last night for a
train to Gunnersbury before giving up. Twice the info display had counted
down to three minutes before telling him that the train was cancelled.
Apparently lots of freight trains were going through. What's all that about?
Surely the passenger trains were not all breaking down at West Hampstead.

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In message , Paul Corfield
writes
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:22:27 -0000, "Basil Jet"
wrote:


Someone spent an hour waiting at Brondesbury Park station last night for a
train to Gunnersbury before giving up. Twice the info display had counted
down to three minutes before telling him that the train was cancelled.
Apparently lots of freight trains were going through. What's all that about?
Surely the passenger trains were not all breaking down at West Hampstead.

From what I saw of TfL Rail real time info yesterday the NLL and WLL had
a dire day. Power failures and several train failures during the day
seemed to wreck the service. Whether something else happened at night to
worsen what was probably a pretty shattered service I don't know. Can't
comment about the displays - no idea how they work.

Train broke down just after leaving Kentish Town West going towards
Gospel Oak at around 9pm. Given the Eurostar experience (not that I
knew it at the time) I was very grateful to walk 50m down the track to
Kentish Town West a mere 90 mins (or perhaps 2 hours) or so after the
train broke down.

I was amused (as were many other passengers) that a girl was shouting
through the train driver's door that she wanted a tea ("and I mean it").
However I think that was a symptom of the announcements/updates to
passengers drying up after a short period of time (feedback already sent
to London Overground). The biggest delay was (it seemed from the tone
of the announcements), apparently, in persuading the signaler to talk to
his control to request permission to detrain.

A nice shiny new train is quite a pleasant way to spend 90 minutes going
nowhere up above the streets and houses of London. Just a shame that it
was probably the cause of it too!

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Paul G
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