Chaos

[gricerboy]

Derailed EWS Bogie Monster Box at Chipping Sodbury brings chaos to the Western Region this morning and results in my being 45 minutes late into Swindon. A brief summary of this morning's chaos:

• Buses laid on between Bristol Parkway and Swindon
• Platforms overflowing with disgruntled passengers at Bristol Parkway and reports of scuffles breaking out between commuters and station staff
• 2 trains running at standing room only capacity left stationary for over 1 hour before passengers are detrained onto relief trains deployed from the other direction

So far as I understand, no disruption has been brought to services travelling in a westerly direction from London to Bristol and an FGW representative confirmed to me that compensation of £10 will be available to season ticket holders IF THE DELAY TO THEIR JOURNEY EXCEEDS ONE HOUR.

[sasguru]

Fook orf, FFS.

Ban Him, Mods.

For fooking spamming the forum.

[suityou01]

Nah, he winds up SAS which keeps me amused

[gricerboy]

So didn't anyone else get caught up in this?

SASGuru - for your information, I AM NOT SPAMMING THE FORUM I was merely making a purely altruistic gesture for the benefit of any other CUKers who may have had planned to include that part of the rail network in their travel itineries this morning.

[Doggy Styles]

My train journey passed without incident this morning. As usual. And we don't have any riff-raff standing in the aisles either.