Can't plan a journey in this fucking weather because none of the travel websites have the right info!

[VelvetSpoon]

So fed up with this snow. Am in the south east - zone 5 - so we don't even have thst much.

In their infinite wisdom Southeast trains have closed my local station. Every other station on the line is open. Just not ours. This means I have a 30 min walk in the freezing cold to the next station.

I have to travel across London by train tube and bus for a funeral. I cannot plan the journey properly because, as well as the above inconvenience, tfl hasn't updated it's info and thinks my station is open. Ditto Google maps. So the only part I can plan is the train and I have no fucking idea when I will arrive.

Add to this people telling me I should just drive. And I know my family will be upset if I'm not there.

And there isn't even that much bloody snow here. Am so fed up with it all!

I know this sounds unhelpful, but can't you plan your journey starting from the station you have to walk to?

The TfL tube status update page will be accurate. Bus information can be a little more variable, but should show major problems.

I don't think the middle of town got more snow last night (there is a reasonable chance of more in the forecast for this morning)

Tfl isn't showing the right train times. So even if I put in the station I will have to travel from, it's telling me the 'normal service. Not the only half an hour one that southeasterm are running.

And on southeasterm I can only plan a journey on their trains....

Any reason why you can't look at all train operators sites?

Or if it's all become too unpredictable, just set off, allowing more time for your journey, and find a nice warm coffee shop near your destination if you're terribly early.

When there's major weather related upheaval timetables often go out of the window, as they run as many services as they can, when they can. Anything beyond which lines and stations are open is unlikely to be certain enough to be set out as a revised timetable.

Or just make the whole journey by bus, if you really can't work round variable train times. That might save you the walkmat the start of the journey too.

Try the national rail website, it's more reliable than the operator websites.

It's impossible to make the journey by bus, as I have to go into London and back out again. It's going to take upwards of 2 hours as it is. By car it's under 40 mins. I'm already having to set off at 9 to try and arrive by 12. Door to door it's less than 20 miles.

I do understand that timetables change in adverse weather etc (Although I don't see how the weather stops one station on a line being open especially when every train will pass through it) but yesterday tfl and other travel planning sites had the correct real time info, so had I been travelling yesterday I would have been able to plan the correct route, and now they don't.

National rail unfortunately is only giving me train info, but I need to use the Tube after I complete the train section, and to connect with the bus route.

Use Google maps, usually has up to date info but if the transport providers haven't updated it there isn't much you can do. Set off early and hope for the best. While the snow is a pain for people travelling, it's also a pain for the people that need to update the timetables and journey planners - if you can't get into town how are they supposed to? Good luck.

Nothing helpful to add, but just some sympathy. It is one thing not having accurate times to plan a normal commute, but it must be frustrating and upsetting not to be sure of how to get to a funeral.

Apart from overground, tubes are running normally

tfl.gov.uk/tube-dlr-overground/status/

with good service (ie every few minutes) on all lines, so you really don't need a timetable for that bit.

(And now I'm wondering which part of zone 5 is impossible to reach by bus)

I'm travelling from zone 5 Kent to outside Zone 6 in Essex. According to tfl going by bus would take 4 hours.

I've tried Google maps unfortunately it's the same as tfl ie showing trains running normally and from my local station.

I can only hope 2.5 hours is enough time to get there because I can't leave any earlier.

Having just seen the poor sods who've been stuck on a broken down train for 13 hours, planning a journey anywhere is the last thing I'd do.

The reason they're not showing up-to-date information is because they simply don't know what's likely to happen. If they published the information and then couldn't run the trains, people would be kicking off like crazy.

It's horrible not to be able to get to what is obviously something very important to you, but sometimes shit happens, and when it does, it usually happens at the worst possible time.

I hope you're able to get there, OP.

Tube service has deteriorated a bit - problems on DLR, District line part suspended (fallen tree near Gunnersbury, so not close to your journey) and signal (?) problem causing delays on the Bakerloo.

Hope the journey is working OK so far!

Sympathies. I think all you can do is set off as soon as you're able, and tell your family you are doing your best to get there but it's not something you can control.