themodelcommuter

I arrived at the station Thursday to see what I thought was the 07:30 pulling into platform 3. Given getting a seat is hard enough if you’re first through the door let alone at the platform I gave it up for a bad job and headed to platform 4 for the 07:33. A few minutes later another intercity pulls in. This was not good. What I thought was the 07:30 was the delayed 07:15 and NXEA have a tendency of making sure the intercities get through at the expense of slower trains. Cue 20 minutes extra free on the train.

From there it went downhill. Two failed trains and an incident at Gidea Park gave another 20 minutes free on the train home and both trains yesterday were 10 minutes late for reasons I couldn’t even be bothered to unplug my headphones to hear. With the resuming of Engineering works this month I get 40 minutes free on a bus tomorrow and just to make sure I’m being really put upon they’ve slung someone in front of a train at Seven Kings today. My train isn’t even advertised, they’re cancelling others and they claim one will be here in 15 minutes, some 30 minutes late. I suspect they are lying. Not to worry. Soon it’ll be Monday and they can do something really spectacular to stuff up my day.

~ by The Model Commuter on October 4, 2008.