This is absolutely typical of Abellio...

https://twitter.com/IBPTSFelixstowe/status/519876338698973184?s=09

Shiney new trains for the Jocks, the same  clapped out shitboxes for the rest of us...

More evidence...

Of just how people like me are being fleeced by the thieving bastards at Greater Anglia.

Just what the f*ck that incomprehensible, rambling bullshit the rail companies' spokesidiot trots out in the last paragraph is anybody's guess.

It's gone high time not just Network Fail but the useless toerags at Greater Anglia together with all the other grasping f*ckers running rail services need to start paying out real money to people as restitution for the shit we have put up with in a daily basis, and not Mickey Mouse vouchers which we can only use to pay these bastards to inflict yet more f*cking misery on us.

Just a f*cking joke.

Just when...

You think they can't f*ck up any more the shower of shit running Greater bloody Anglia come up with yet another jaw dropping piece of f*ckwittery.

For our delectation tonight we have another f*cked up train.

But this one goes above and beyond even the crass incompetent uselessness we've come to expect from these clowns. This one is blocking not one, not two, but the grand total of FOUR platforms at Liverpool Street.

As you can expect it's headless chicken time again as they try to get their collective brain cell around this latest balls-up entirely of their own making.

As always, they've gone into default, cancel f*cking everything mode and trains are being chopped left right and centre. It's pitiful.

And now, for some reason best known only to this bunch of cretins, because they never bother to tell us what the f*ck is going on, we're now sitting motionless outside of Stratford.

I just despair.

Another Friday...

Another catastrophic evening courtesy of Greater f*cking Anglia and Network Bloody Fail.

We had a bit of rain this afternoon so inevitably a section of track has been closed due to what we are told is cataclysmic flooding. Apparently Noah was seen going into Wickes.

Cue utter f*cking chaos at Liverpool Street. No bloody trains, crowds out the doors. Total shambles again.

No trains whatsoever going out towards Ipswich, Colchester or Braintree. Added to this was the usual total lack of information.

I'm also beginning to suspect that to be taken on as a tannoy announcer on GA you need to have had a lobotomy because the pillock at Liverpool St is as useless the cretin at Stratford.

He's spent the last hour talking complete bollocks, claiming there are "short notice alterations" occurring. Like hell there are.

Not one bloody train left before the one I've just got on to which was going to Ipswich, but has now been cancelled. If I could get to Witham, I can get a lift home from there but that's proving problematical.

Update:

I eventually managed to get home via the more circuitous but much more reliable route of getting on a Stansted Express train and then getting picked up from the airport. It's more expensive in fuel but it avoided my having to wait till the tosspots at GA and NR finally got enough of their shit together to run the seriously hobbled "service" they eventually managed to come up with.

I spend in excess of four grand a year on my annual season ticket, and in compensation for tonights mass f*ck-up I can expect to receive a voucher, valid only on the same f*cked-up railway that screwed me in the first place for the sum of £8.00.

It's high time this cosy and corrupt compensation scheme was swept away and companies like Abellio Greater Anglia and Network Rail who consistently fail their customers are forced to pay a proper amount of compensation, in cash. There is absolutely no incentive with the present system for them to improve. They need to be made to hurt financially. 

Proof...

If proof were ever needed just how shit the trains are into and out of London.

I was particularly taken by the bollocks spouted by the dickhead drone spokesidiot at the end of the article. They manage to completely ignore the point.

And just to emphasise that point, we're currently at a standstill in Goodmayes station because of yet more f*cked-up signals up ahead.

Update: Typically, the lazy pricks have cancelled the train from Witham.

Bastards.

Yep, it's Friday....

And we're currently sitting outside of Chelmsford because the bloody signals are f*cked again.

We should be approaching Liverpool Street by now but we've not even got to Chelmsford to allow all the arseholes on yet.

Doubtless they'll be swarming all over us when we finally get there.

It's just a joke...

Another day...

Another shambolic, f*cked up day on the railways.

We've just left Witham where the drone on the tannoy is blithely advising punters to "...avoid travelling..." if they "...can avoid it..." and we were forced to wait for a late-running train to go through due to some balls-up towards Colchester.

As we left, the automated was pissing people off by announcing a cancellation.

It's amazing how these f*cktards keep their jobs.

Update: said balls-up is yet more late-running engineering works. Late-running by 5 hours according to our driver!

I'm just speechless...

I get...

This bollocks in an email  from the dickheads at GA half past four this afternoon:

"There is no disruption reported at this time between London Liverpool Street and Braintree."

And then this gem by text less than 10 minutes later:

LST to BTR on your route: a fault with the signalling system may cancel: The 17:20 and 18:00.

And yes, it's bloody Friday and typically this shower of shit are f*cking up the world and his wife again

The fair...

Weather cyclists seem to have all dusted off their bikes and started cycling to Braintree station again as spring starts to warm up.

The bike racks which have been all but deserted all winter apart from the die-hards like me are now full of shiny, barely used machines which appear pristine compared to the manky, shit-coated thing I've been riding all year.

It would help if the useless pricks at Greater Anglia made the new bike rack in the car park available. It's STILL barred off a good eight weeks after it was installed. What are GA playing at?

Arseholes (fair-weather cyclists and GA alike).

It's Friday...

And, true to form, the wankers at Greater Anglia have seen fit to cancel the 0726 again.

The reasons de jour are overrunning engineering works or another f*cked up train. Take your pick, they've used both excuses this morning.

Whatever, it still means another late start and finish at work today.

This was...

Installed in the station car park at Braintree over six weeks ago.

And such is the complete and utter uselessness of Greater Anglia that it's now become the barred off vandal magnet in this  picture.

More corporate...

Bollocks from the same train company that cancelled ANOTHER f*cking train tonight because some lazy bastard couldn't arsed to turn for work.