Minutes late now because the arseholes running the railway don't have courage to do to the f*ckers from further up the line what they do to us at every opportunity.
Mind you given their abysmal record of late, they wouldn't have any trains to run most of the time....
F*cked up again this morning.
Currently still stuck at Witham waiting for abysmally late Clacton and Stowmarket trains to go through.
Curious how trains to and from Colchester, Clacton or Ipswich are never ever cancelled in the same way Braintree trains are. For example, the Stowmarket was 36 minutes late.
Last night's 1809 to Braintree was binned at almost no notice because it was an appalling 20 minutes late! How exactly does that work then?
The platform at Witham, I reckon there must close to a quarter of a million pounds worth of season ticket holders being f*cked up because some lazy twat at Greater Anglia/Network Rail couldn't be arsed prioritizing the Braintree train so it could make it's time slot on the Braintree branch.
What company treats it's paying customers with the contempt we've seen from GA recently?
Same incompetence.
Lots of seriously pissed off Braintree passengers questioning the gormless drones at Witham to find out why we seem to be the only sods to have their trains bolloxed so regularly.
They have no answers to perfectly rational questions. They just stand there shrugging like they couldn't give a flying f*ck who they f*ck up when they cancel trains just as long as it's not the mouthy whiners from Colchester.
We've just been sheepishly informed by the driver that the tossers are slinging us off at f*cking Witham just in time to get off into a thunderstorm.
Unbelievable.
The Braintree has just arrived absolutely f*cking rammed with Chelmsford arseholes hogging all the seats.
Bastards.
Courtesy of TfHell and National Rail.
First the endlessly f*cked up Jubilee Line managed to turn a routine 10 minute journey into a 25 minute drag.
We stopped endlessly. Each time we did we were assured by the driver that we were awaiting the train ahead to leave the next platform.
Oddly, we were fed this same bullshit on both occasions we stopped between Canary Wharf and North Greenwich.
Later, we were left sitting at West Ham, so we were informed, to "...regulate the service...". More bullshit.
Finally we stopped 3 times on the approach to Stratford to, as we were advised "...await a train departing the platform..." (twice) and finally and inevitably we were "...awaiting a free platform...".
We eventuality arrived to find the inevitable 3 empty platforms.
Next, National Rail have a load of f*cked up signals somewhere north of Witham.
As sure as night follows day every bloody train going within 20 miles of Witham is being f*cked over, especially the Braintree services which go nowhere near the bolloxed signals.
Coupled with this crap there are also speed restrictions on place because it's f*cking summer again.
Only 8 weeks to go till the great Olympic clusterf*ck.
Journey courtesy of the gormless arseholes traveling to Chelmsford.
Boarding 1909 Braintree at Stratford about s dozen of these dumb shits piled onto the train and immediately stopped, blocking the doorway.
I had no intention of being f*cked over by these moronic bastards so I dumped my bike in the one piece of arsehole free territory.
They seemed to get the message and moved further down the train.
Even so, the train is still heaving with these selfish f*ckers
At Witham, because the train I was on was running almost half an hour late.
Now I'm obliged to wait at least half an hour until the next Braintree train arrives. It's already at least 5 miutes late.
The question I have is what happens if that train ends up half an hour late? Do the incompetent f*ckwits terminate that one here as well?
And so on ad nauseum?
F*cking idiots.
F*ckwittery goes on.
We've just been told that because this train is now so catastrophically late, they're slinging us off at Witham.
If seems GA are as big a f*cking sick joke as NXEA ever were.
Saving grace about the eternally hopeless app that GA give away is it's free.
It's also completely f*cking useless.
It's currently showing this train as leaving Stratford 15 minutes late; it's not, it's 17 minutes late and getting later.
The app also has a nasty habit of showing the train further on than it actually is. At one point this morning it was showing the train I was on as being 2 stops further on than we were.
It's just cheap and nasty.
F*cking minutes late Braintree has just arrived.
Then the useless tosser on the tannoy announced it as a Southend train.
Prick.
Now the useless wankers have a f*cking inter city blocking the line just short of Stratford while it's waiting for a green signal.
This bunch are just as crap as NXEA when it comes to those f*cking things.
Arseholes.
Shite again tonight.
Nothing moving north of Stratford at the moment.
There's a delayed Clacton train blocking platform 10, another late Southend behind that then hopefully the now very bloody late Braintree train is behind that.
F*cking abysmal.
To stop this journey turning into a complete clusterf*ck, Network Rail have finally fixed the signals.
We finally arrived at Ingatestone, 55 minutes late!
Now we're warned, there's likely to be "congestion nearer to London".
Marvellous.
A seriously delayed train I've had the misfortune to be on has been overtaken by another train.
Why? The signals are supposed to be so f*cked that only one train at a time can go through between Chelmsford and Ingatestone.
Logic dictates each train should go through as it reaches the front if the queue. Apparently not. Some trains are plainly being given priority over others.
Again why?
The Greater Anglia Android app is currently showing the train I'm sitting on as being 5 minutes late and somewhere between Chelmsford and Ingatestone.
We are actually stopped beside the A12 halfway between Hatfield Peverel and Chelmsford and presently at least 20 minutes late.
The shit just keeps on coming, as there are now multiple signal failures all along the route into London and trains are being backed up to f*ck.
Why does this kind of crap always happen on Friday?
NXEA never left.
Another bloody train cancelled.
This mornings 0726 has been binned allegedly because of "signalling problems..." somewhere between here and Witham.
This is the second cancelled train I've had in 2 weeks. They cancelled an 1809 Stratford to Braintree last week.
I get the sense of deja vu?
The next Stratford train is at least 10 minutes late.
It's also, according to the Witham tannoy, absolutely f*cking rammed.
The reason for the shambles is a cracked rail on the approach to Liverpool Street closing 3 platforms.
Utter shite given these rails were replaced not long ago during another well publicized National Rail balls-up.
Another Network Rail f*ck-up at Liverpool Street has allegedly reduced the number of platforms available there.
As a result, Greater Anglia have picked up the same lazy unimaginative habits that NXEA had when they were faced with this kind of shit.
They're terminating trains short.
So the 0812 is only running as far as Witham this morning. Once there we're on our own.
Didn't take long.
And I really did want to give 'em the benefit of the doubt.
Shouldn't have even tried.
