Fury At Southeastern Trains Epic Snow Fail
And the award for biggest overreaction to the forecast snowpocalypse goes to: Southeastern Trains. We told you yesterday that they were planning to run a revised service, but what nobody knew until this morning was that would involve just two trains an hour on each Metro route and that at 8.36pm a large "Gone Home" sign would be hung on the doors of Charing Cross. That's right: South East London is, in effect, cut off this evening.
It's no wonder SE Londoners are apoplectic with rage. We spotted tales of constantly full trains from Hither Green and Blackheath this morning - for some poor souls who absolutely had to get into work, there was nothing for it but to try other means of transport or just walk. It would be understandable if we were under the fabled 40cm of snow but, looking outside our Lewisham window, we can report there's not enough snow on the ground to cover the tops of a pair of very flimsy shoes with a tiny fluttering of flakes drifting from the sky. To compound the ludicrousness, Londonist caught the 23.44 train out of London Bridge last night, when the snow was bucketing down, without any problems at all.
We've left messages for Southeastern, asking how long this is planned to continue and whether they'll be offering any sort of compensation, and will update this post when/if we hear anything. In the meantime it seems there's little to do but fume silently (or loudly, whichever is your wont) and contemplate secession from the rest of the capital.
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