My Brother-in-Law was effected by this last night. I got a call from my Sister at about 2025 to ask if I was about. John (BiL) had been sitting at Upton Park for about 3 hours before being de-trained. A majority of the c2c passengers were waiting to see if emergency buses were going to turn up (wrong side of Barking im affraid) so I ended up picking him up down on the Barking Road at 2050, getting him home at 2120 (just spoken to next door neighbour who finally got home at 2300). _________________ Steve B.
(aka Purfleet Steve)
http://www.youtube.com/LTSRail
I heard on the radio tonight that a train had failed on the level crossing at Purfleet, causing not only service disruption, but traffic jams as well. I wonder if anybody complained they missed their train, like they do along here and almost daily these days? _________________ Once the misery line, but now passed on to another.
See www.bramleyline.org.uk where one day we just might see an Ex-LT&SR Standard 4 steaming along as a Guest loco.
COMMUTERS traveling to and from London were subject to chaos and delays today as problems with overhead wires in the Pitsea area wreaked carnage on services.
Services were largely at random, with travelers on all services told to discard electronic notices and pre-recorded announcements and take advice from platform staff only.
Services on the Tilbury loop to London were particularly hard hit, with a shuttle train running from Grays to Upminster to allow some commuters to take the option of using the underground service.
Delays and cancellations, which began last night, were expected to last throughout the day.
Buses have replaced trains between Pitsea and Leigh and are running about every 15 minutes.
At 8.30am today, c2c said the problems had been fixed and services would start to get back to normal. However, at midday trains were still severely disrupted. _________________ Steve B.
(aka Purfleet Steve)
http://www.youtube.com/LTSRail
Downed power cables in the Pitsea area caused massive disruption to services, prompting Thurrock Rail Users Group spokesperson Adrian Brown to: "We are waiting to hear from c2c to explain what happened.
"Since the chaos in April,they have told us that lessons would be learned but they obviously have not."
advertisementServices were largely at random, with travelers on all services told to discard electronic notices and pre-recorded announcements and take advice from platform staff only.
Problems for rail users in the capital were compounded by problems on the Underground, particularly the Circle Line, while in the north a 'catastrophic' signals failure caused huge disruption to services coming into the north through Finsbury Park, with trans to and from King's Cross particularly hard hit.
Passengers on some trains spent more than two hours in stationary carriages.
Copper cables running along the tracks were stolen, which affected the overhead power supply to the trains.
Thefts of metal are soaring across the county, as its high price makes scrap valuable.
Rush-hour services were severely delayed on Tuesday evening as a result of the thefts, which affected trains through to yesterday afternoon, as Network Rail worked to repair the cables in the Pitsea area.
Rebecca Richardson, spokeswoman for c2c, said: "The problem occurred between Pitsea and Benfleet, as a result of copper cable theft, and this resulted in the loss of power.
"Network Rail investigated it and worked through the night to fix it. The line was fully up and running again by 10.30am on Wednesday morning.
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"We were running a limited service until then and had only one line in operation.
"This is a problem for rail companies countrywide and c2c has suffered from it in the past." _________________ Steve B.
(aka Purfleet Steve)
http://www.youtube.com/LTSRail
I bet the commuters blamed C2C and will be demanding compensation again. The thieves are even striking on some Preserved Lines. Wicked as it is, one day one of them just might cut through the wrong cable, or with the wrong cutter. It would certainly give them a shock!
_________________ Once the misery line, but now passed on to another.
See www.bramleyline.org.uk where one day we just might see an Ex-LT&SR Standard 4 steaming along as a Guest loco.
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