What has happened at Clapham today. Loads of people phoned in to say
that they can't get a train into Waterloo. There is very little running
through Vauxhall. I gather every thing into Victoria is cancelled.

Kevin

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What has happened at Clapham today. Loads of people phoned in to say
that they can't get a train into Waterloo. There is very little running
through Vauxhall. I gather every thing into Victoria is cancelled.

Kevin


I've just been through (approx. 0945) to Victoria with no obvious bother. As
we pulled into platform 12 (?) I noticed that sections of the adjacent
platform (down slow from Waterloo) had been taped off.

D A Stocks

David A Stocks wrote:
wrote in message
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What has happened at Clapham today. Loads of people phoned in to say
that they can't get a train into Waterloo. There is very little running
through Vauxhall. I gather every thing into Victoria is cancelled.

Kevin


I've just been through (approx. 0945) to Victoria with no obvious bother. As
we pulled into platform 12 (?) I noticed that sections of the adjacent
platform (down slow from Waterloo) had been taped off.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/realtime/?mode=rail&time=now

"SOUTH WEST TRAINS: Delays and cancellations are occurring due to a
fire alert at Clapham Junction.

SOUTHERN RAILWAY: Delays and cancellations are occurring due to a fire
alert at Clapham Junction"

--
Larry Lard
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In message om,
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What has happened at Clapham today. Loads of people phoned in to say
that they can't get a train into Waterloo. There is very little running
through Vauxhall. I gather every thing into Victoria is cancelled.

Severe disruption due to a lineside fire in the Clapham Junction area,
according to the SWT website.

--
Paul Terry

There was a cable fire around 7am this morning just outside Clapham
Junction. All Southern services used the Up Slow and Down for about and
hour and then the fasts were re-opened. Southern services took another
hit with a track defect at Norwood and a signalling problem at Tulse
Hill.

Gatwick Express reduced to half hourly and South West Trains instigated
an emergency timetable of sorts (the usual story of Hampton Court
becoming a shuttle etc...) and I do wonder why Southern don't have a
similar system of reducing the number of trains trying to reach London
when these major incidents occur.

Larry Lard wrote:
David A Stocks wrote:
wrote in message
ps.com...
What has happened at Clapham today. Loads of people phoned in to say
that they can't get a train into Waterloo. There is very little running
through Vauxhall. I gather every thing into Victoria is cancelled.

Kevin


I've just been through (approx. 0945) to Victoria with no obvious bother. As
we pulled into platform 12 (?) I noticed that sections of the adjacent
platform (down slow from Waterloo) had been taped off.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/realtime/?mode=rail&time=now

"SOUTH WEST TRAINS: Delays and cancellations are occurring due to a
fire alert at Clapham Junction.

SOUTHERN RAILWAY: Delays and cancellations are occurring due to a fire
alert at Clapham Junction"

Looks like they were dumping a load of affected people on to the tube
at Wimbledon (meaning it was full for the whole route). Gave up on the
idea of squeezing onto a rush hour tube this morning and cycled instead

In message , Martyn Drake
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On 18 Nov 2005 01:53:07 -0800, wrote:

What has happened at Clapham today. Loads of people phoned in to say
that they can't get a train into Waterloo. There is very little running
through Vauxhall. I gather every thing into Victoria is cancelled.

Chaos at Woking today - most of us decided to pile into McDonalds and
wait it out, but by 9am it was just as bad. Went home and worked from
there. Thank the Gods for the VPN.

I was on the 0739 from Ash Vale to Waterloo, which finally arrived at
Waterloo over an hour late at about 0930 having been diverted via
Chertsey and Staines (rather than the usual route via Wimbledon). I was
one of the lucky ones who had a seat, many of the people who got on at
Woking had to stand all the way.
--
Daniel (a.k.a Spyke)
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On 18 Nov 2005 04:20:52 -0800, "Conductor in Charge of.........."
wrote:

There was a cable fire around 7am this morning just outside Clapham
Junction. All Southern services used the Up Slow and Down for about and
hour and then the fasts were re-opened. Southern services took another
hit with a track defect at Norwood and a signalling problem at Tulse
Hill.

Gatwick Express reduced to half hourly and South West Trains instigated
an emergency timetable of sorts (the usual story of Hampton Court
becoming a shuttle etc...) and I do wonder why Southern don't have a
similar system of reducing the number of trains trying to reach London
when these major incidents occur.

There was also apparently a broken rail at Weybridge, so SWT seemed to
put in place an emergency programme of reducing the number of trains
at Woking. I was on the 0740 from Fleet and we stopped for a while
outside Woking, when we got into the platform we were turfed off and
told the train was going back to Basingstoke.

Unfortunately when we got onto the platform all the announcements were
about a late-running Portsmouth Harbour train, nothing at all to do
with how to get to Waterloo... I know Woking quite well and decided
that any other Waterloo train would probably be using another platform
and headed off for a footbridge. Most of the other commuters
obviously didn't, and stood around getting in the way... so at least
when I got on the waterloo train I got down inside the carriage and
got a reasonable amount of standing space (and got a seat about
halfway to Waterloo as another pax had to go to the loo).

Once leaving Woking everything seemed to go quite smoothly, we didn't
actually go very fast but apart from a stop at Raynes Park and another
in the CJn area itself, we got to waterloo non-stop and I got in about
45 minutes late.

So on this occasion I'd give reasonably full marks for SWT, apart from
not having the nous to interrupt its Portsmouth Harbour announcement
for the benefit of the much greater number of Waterloo pax milling
around lost on Platform 1.