Anyone use South West Trains???!!

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Or south western railway from Waterloo? AIBU to want to get home tonight? AIBU to think that the communication at Waterloo has gotten much worse since the new franchise came into force?

Yes. I really can't understand why that caused such prolonged chaos yesterday, considering it started at lunchtime. Why couldn't they employ other platforms, or start and terminate trains from futher down the line which is what they normally do in those circumstances? After all the disruption during the summer, it appears they've left the infrastructure weaker.

Where was the fire?

Usually they'd try and get some/most services getting as far as CJ. But with Chelsea Embankment out, the road congestion between there and Waterloo is pretty bloody awful without adding extra commuters.

Part of the trouble is that they got everything brilliantly for the Olympics. Now, 5 years on, loads of it is needing attention at the same time and it seems like everything is broken or dug up.

It was a track side fire @squirm between Waterloo and Clapham.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-42310174

And it was still all shit this morning as everything was in the wrong place. Bastard trains.

They have really annoyed me recently.

I had an opportunity to think about the 3.4% far increase while I was stood on the platform in -3 degrees this morning, waiting for trains that didn't come.

For my sins I have to use them. Luckily I wasn't caught up in the chaos yesterday but this evening my train was 10 minutes late and only had 5 carriages instead of 10. It's like they're on a mission to piss their passengers off as much as humanly possible. Definitely got worse since they took over. Fuckers.

I left work this afternoon before it got too bad, but I am not here to gloat. I am here to tell you to claim delay repay every time (just had 3 through from November) AND I renewed my season ticket today and got a 5% discount because they missed their punctuality target. So check!

Will they ever get this working again?

Just seen that it's still delays/cancellations this morning (hang over from whatever happened at Vauxhall yesterday)

Yes, five carriages on my normally 10 carriage train this morning. It was rammed. Pretty much every journey this week has been shit.