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.