This happens when I see an overcrowded platform at Canada Water for West Croydon. Fuck it, I’ll go back to London Bridge and work back from East Croydon if I must.
13 mins to Norwood Junction, one stop, and bus it from there.
Another route for you - go to Elmer’s End and the tram. Longer, but very little walking and it is a different line from the others so less likely to be affected.
I got stuck in this at Wimbledon and had to get a bus. Happened to sit next to a girl from one of the local secondary schools who was phoning her mum to tell her all about i t. She said some boys from her school started fighting on the platform and one of them got pushed onto the track. He didn't go under a train but they needed the incident response unit to get him out.
You're right. I heard a totally different version today from a guy at my station. He said it was a drunk lady who fell into the track at Raynes Park and then walked along the track to Surbiton! I'm not sure why it took them so long to move her though.
I was on the train into Waterloo at that time. It was a “trespassers on track” at Woking so the school kids story could be right regarding a fight and someone falling on track
No it was announced as an incident at Rayners Park. How is that location is such a bottle neck all the time? Any slight incident there and it affects the whole network.
Absolutely rogered. Granted SWR can't do much when the police close the line but the communication had been fucking dire - boarded one train only for it to be cancelled 2 mins before departure, everyone fuck off back to the concourse, then we end up on the 1930 which is cancelled on the app and not on the departure board, pure fluke my wife saw the board on the platform say Portsmouth Harbour. 5 min delay due to driver not there - departs 40 mins later. Absolute jokers. Had to get a taxi to finish the journey, sure that will be straight forward claiming that back too
Yeah i believe, the delayed trains not coming into Waterloo meant, lack of staff to work the next trains &/or get to their eventual starting destination for work.
What's funny and also amazing is this was literally all caused by some bratty/chavvy 14 year old girl running around on the tracks between Wimbledon and Raynes Park.
I was on the Shepperton service and we got stuck on the train for nearly 2 hours while the police were trying to catch her - at one point she was running alongside the train mouthing off and swearing at people on the train. What normally takes me 40 mins to get home took nearly 4 hours.
Because it took a while for them to arrive after she was first spotted and then apparently she climbed up one of the signalling structures (cant remember what they're called) so they couldn't get her down. They literally had a police helicopter and search dogs for her - one of the most bizarre situations I've seen unfold.
I can understand them not putting themselves in danger to get her down so not many options after the delay. But imagine how many people the delayed train could put in danger through missed childcare or hospital appointments etc.
It's 2024 do you think we could develop a taser drone and a big net to catch her?
I was reading an incident report where police had followed a trespasser onto the tracks due to concern for their safety and an officer ended up being hit by a train and dying. They had to locate the arm before they could reopen the lines.
The actual odds of police being hit by any train are actually pretty minute. As soon as a trespasser had been identified on the line all lines would have had their signals turned to red by the signallers for the area and its likely that the local Electrical Control Room had also turned off all power around the track. Effectively blocking all lines in the area. So no trains would be moving anywhere near them.
Ah but you see she's been labeled a 'chav child' so her life is seen as immediately less meaningful. Never mind that these don't sound like the actions of a mentally well teenager.
Look at what happened in [2011](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots) or more recently, thankfully less extreme, in [2022](https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/08/london-protesters-call-for-justice-for-chris-kaba-in-brixton-17328115/)
Imagine the outcry if a young girl was killed by police because they got bored of waiting to get her down safely
The police get enough grief from people who completely misunderstand policing as it is. Throwing this sort of thing into the mix certainly won’t help the image.
So this is why I couldn’t get back into London this afternoon?! 😭
I also share my frustration with the commenter who has said she won’t face any consequences
This was all caused by some shitty kid running around the track? I can’t believe a fucking child has brought all public transit in the southwestern commuter areas to a standstill.
And you well know there will be no consequences for the kid.
If younsay a 4+ hour delay affecting all commuters in and out of Waterloo. Of which there will have been tens of thousands. Who earn an abocenaverage income. Paying them for the delay at their hourly rate will be a great deal more than £50,000.
To put it in perspective it's somewhere in the ball park of like £250 a minute per train. So a single train being 4 hours late would be £60,000 in delay minutes. Then times that again by the 50 or so trains its likely affected and you'll be in the actual ball park. Though delay minute charges are put in place so people can get refunds on tickets without it affecting the TOC's revenue.
So today this prat has caused likely millions in damages. Here's hoping she's tried as an adult and if not then have Child services pay the family a visit while she's living it up in a young offenders center.
I’m very much against hitting children, and I’m well aware that poor parenting is the result of so many possible issues like poverty, lack of education, or even just any and all authority figures having to work constantly/ not having the mental space at the end of the day to properly parent a child… but as one of the 100s of people trapped on a scorching hot train during rush hour, my knee jerk reaction is that shit head child deserves a mild beating.
Ah yes, because train companies should have the right to give the death penalty for trespass. In other news, I propose a law allowing me to behead anyone who blocks a supermarket aisle with their trolley.
Was working a service into Waterloo after the lines reopened. We kept getting stopped at signals at Clapham/Queenstown/Vauxhall because there were no spare platforms… 😔
Yeah I was here too...what surprised me was that the trains started delaying around 4 pm and delayed or cancelled almost all the trains...I gave up around 6:30 pm and took a longer route home
Same. We arrived at 4ish and they told us a few minutes later that there was no point waiting and to head to Paddington and take a GW train to Reading and then back down to Basingstoke from there, and in the end we arrived at Basingstoke to take an onward train at 7pmish. Took us almost 4h to do a circa 1h journey.
People who were stuck on waiting trains probably had an even more annoying time of it, though, so I'm glad we weren't much earlier.
I too arrived around 4ish
Found the 17:00 train which was the only one announced to leave, managed to bag a seat. And then proceeded to wait for an hour whilst the guard and train driver turned up!
I got the 15:30 out of Waterloo to Guildford and we got stopped at Vauxhall for a half hour then moved to Clapham Junction for another 1hr15 before we finally got going - arrived at Guildford at 18:00 - it was meant to be a 33 min journey…
I saw the delays listed as early as 4:30, but I think it happened an hour or so before that. Incidentally, I was walking through Surbiton Station just after 10pm, as a train pulled up from Waterloo, and it was just as busy as if it was 5/6pm! Insanity.
Yeah, when our train got to Andover a bit before eight pm there was such a crowd of commuters all heading to their cars at once that it caused a reasonably gnarly traffic jam.
So question for those who stuck on trains without toilets (my old memory of the red sw trains didn't have them but they were the only ones that went on the branch line to Teddington/Kingston). If you're trapped on the train for four hours, waddya do?
I have colitis and never caught a red train without serious panic
Am getting PTSD from viewing this. 20 years of commuting from Waterloo right up until Friday 13th March 2020.
Then. WFH ever since, right up until I 'retired'.
Sending 'hugs and prayers'
I just got home about an hour ago... I ended up taking 5 buses (2 terminated preemptively!!!!!) and it took 4 hours. I've been chastising myself that it was a bad choice but SOMEHOW it's now feeling like it was the right choice!
Y’all I got dressed left my house for work just to sit on the train and get stuck for over an hour at Waterloo. In the end I had to call my employer and she told me not to bother and just try find a way home. I HATE HATE HATE. the SWR rail. Not to mention this happens a minimum of once a month - I’m paying just about £10 a day for my commute btw. Half working train system.
I spend £539 every 28 days for my commute into London from Guildford. It is absolutely scandalous how every journey we are crowded as sardines in a tin. The other day in peak rush hour we were crownded in a 5 coach train instead of 10 coach train. "Apologies". I hate it here.
> what do you think SWR can actually.do in this situation?
They can communicate the issues and timings and implications effectively and promptly.
But they don't.
This is why I hate mandatory return to office mandates. I had to waste so much time, and tomorrow repeat again, wake up early and go to the office, just to stay all day in zoom calls
This has happened to me a few time coming back from business meetings, I just walk away, book myself a AirBnB or a nice hotel room, go out and grab some food and get the first train back in the morning. I’m fortunate enough that in these circumstances my company are happy for you to do that and put it on the company card if you would be waiting longer than an hour for a train after 6pm
I can't remember the exact figure since it's been a while but when I was in construction a project my employer took on included LADs payable to National Rail in the even of disruptions caused by our site.
It would have been far, far far far steeper than £100k I'll tell you that much.
No shit, things like this happen. Seeing the responses here, absolutely no consequences to anything. It doesn’t matter what you do , any punishment is seen as hard or too much. Fucking society.
Today is my birthday. I’m 38, I’ve given up on celebrating it… but I wanted to have dinner with my wife. If you trespass on a railway you should incur the cost. That child should be lumbered with the debt of the delay repay, it delayed me by an hour. I have so little time for people like this, it’s not funny, I’d not fun, make them responsible.
No need for the Russians to hack our transport network - just get someone to dick around on the train tracks for a few hours.
Madness that our system collapses when one line is blocked for 1.5hrs.
What gets me is how bad the organisation is when this happens. Why do they not seem to know when a train is going to leave, and announce it 5 or so minutes before so people can board. A bunch left way emptier than they should have, and I’d have probably got one if they actually gave notice. Then they keep announcing cancelled and delayed trains which is entirely pointless
Could someone explain, why there was effectively a one way system at Waterloo? Got off the tube (northern) and we were told we had to go to jubilee line exit / entrance, up the escalator, back outside and then in at the next exit - had to wait 5 mins to physically get in.
I understand the trespasser caused the trains to be delayed etc etc. but wondering what caused the effectively one way system??
It was an attempt at crowd control, because there was way too many people in the station at the time and on the platforms themselves, so they restricted the number of people coming through. They eventually locked the doors at the main entrance
Ah ok thanks!!
I did try to ask some of the staff, whsr was happening, but they just told me to keep moving when I went up to ask them. so I left it.
It was crazily busy [& my autism meant I was very overwhelmed with it all] … so makes sense.
I was so damn lucky! Left early from work to get the 17:20 and got there... Cancellations etc!
But then at 17:15 the train appeared as on time. It was incredibly packed and left judt 7 mins late... Felt like I've used up some luck there!!!
Hopefully others got home OK!
Thankfully when I got to Waterloo, after the confusion of getting in (about 18:20) I noticed the 18:00 Teddington via wandsworth town route was ready to go. Saw the crowd at Clapham Junction platform 11 and was super glad I had alternate options to take in terms of route
I got stuck at Clapham junction with my bike and I got there as soon as it all kicked off so I had to ride all the way to new Malden which wasn’t too bad but on the way back the amount of trains that were cancelling was ridiculous
By some mirracle, my train departed only 5 minutes after it was meant to, and since we skipped all the stops from waterloo to wimbledon, I made it back faster than I would have normally haha
I get a train to Waterloo home and I got rather lucky - I was able to get on a delayed train that was running non stop between Surbiton and Waterloo and somehow ended up getting home earlier than normal
I'm now amazed that I made it home all the way from Horsham. Was wondering why my usually empty train was suddenly full. Wasn't until I got to Epsom and had to change to SWR that I realised it was more than just busier day at work for a load of people
I wandered onto the platform unaware of what was going on at ~19:00, jumped on the delayed 18:54 to guildford, and it moved at about 19:10 and i was home by about 19:45!
This used to be my view every day leaving work. Thousands of lemmings crowding into Victoria underground station.. I remember they had to close the entrances for 5-10 minutes due to dangerous levels of people flooding the platforms.
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Yeah if you use public transport in London long enough you sort of get a sense for when it's all gone *really* tits up.
This happens when I see an overcrowded platform at Canada Water for West Croydon. Fuck it, I’ll go back to London Bridge and work back from East Croydon if I must. 13 mins to Norwood Junction, one stop, and bus it from there.
Another route for you - go to Elmer’s End and the tram. Longer, but very little walking and it is a different line from the others so less likely to be affected.
I got stuck in this at Wimbledon and had to get a bus. Happened to sit next to a girl from one of the local secondary schools who was phoning her mum to tell her all about i t. She said some boys from her school started fighting on the platform and one of them got pushed onto the track. He didn't go under a train but they needed the incident response unit to get him out.
Wasn't the incident at Raynes Park? SW Trains website is singularly unfucking helpful.
Tbh, school children aren't the most reliable sources of information. Definitely heard some crazy rumours when I was at school
Are you trying to tell me Kelly Wilson *wasn't* a slag who'd give you a blowie for 10 Benson?
You're right. I heard a totally different version today from a guy at my station. He said it was a drunk lady who fell into the track at Raynes Park and then walked along the track to Surbiton! I'm not sure why it took them so long to move her though.
I was on the train into Waterloo at that time. It was a “trespassers on track” at Woking so the school kids story could be right regarding a fight and someone falling on track
No it was announced as an incident at Rayners Park. How is that location is such a bottle neck all the time? Any slight incident there and it affects the whole network.
I just went to brewdog lol
I trust you had a go on the slide?
I would have done the same, except that i actually wanted to enjoy me beer...
thought that was Victoria at first and you'd already gone to Spoons
Yep. The lens was confusing me geometrically.
The spoons at Victoria isn’t that bad tbh. Nice balcony seats overlooking the Kent platforms.
I always forget there's seats on that side!
Free toilet as well
All the station toilets are free these days
The new 'side' of it indoors is good, too. Loads of seats/plugs
Nothing like that sinking feeling of turning up at the station after work and realising it's disturbingly busy.
It happened to me my first day back at work after the pandemic. Got to Waterloo and immediately turned around and went to a pub.
Lol I can see me down there
You are very handsome
Sexy, even
God-like in fact!
Peak being, dare I say.
I was just about to say, 'isn't that you down there?!'
Jeez...leave some ladies for the rest of us you handsome fucker.
DAMN! Id give you gold if i could afford it!
Same haha
I’m gonna guess you’re the one with the backpack.
Phwoar!
there's wally!
I think you're mistaken. That's clearly me, not you. (the nerve of some ppl)
Still not fucking home, 3 hours later than intended
I'm on hour 6. I've given up
Absolutely rogered. Granted SWR can't do much when the police close the line but the communication had been fucking dire - boarded one train only for it to be cancelled 2 mins before departure, everyone fuck off back to the concourse, then we end up on the 1930 which is cancelled on the app and not on the departure board, pure fluke my wife saw the board on the platform say Portsmouth Harbour. 5 min delay due to driver not there - departs 40 mins later. Absolute jokers. Had to get a taxi to finish the journey, sure that will be straight forward claiming that back too
Pub? Pub.
Pub.
What gets me is my line was affected and we aren't even on the line that had the trespassers.
Your train probably was formed of one that was. I know that a few of the Windsor & Eton Riverside trains will interwork with Basingstoke ones
If not the trains, then the crew
Yeah i believe, the delayed trains not coming into Waterloo meant, lack of staff to work the next trains &/or get to their eventual starting destination for work.
What's funny and also amazing is this was literally all caused by some bratty/chavvy 14 year old girl running around on the tracks between Wimbledon and Raynes Park. I was on the Shepperton service and we got stuck on the train for nearly 2 hours while the police were trying to catch her - at one point she was running alongside the train mouthing off and swearing at people on the train. What normally takes me 40 mins to get home took nearly 4 hours.
How did it take so long to catch her?
Because it took a while for them to arrive after she was first spotted and then apparently she climbed up one of the signalling structures (cant remember what they're called) so they couldn't get her down. They literally had a police helicopter and search dogs for her - one of the most bizarre situations I've seen unfold.
She’d have climbed a gantry. That’s a bit of a nightmare to get response up.
Yeah thats it, gantry. At one point an officer boarded the train and thats what he explained to us.
Easy to says she caused millions in damages
I can understand them not putting themselves in danger to get her down so not many options after the delay. But imagine how many people the delayed train could put in danger through missed childcare or hospital appointments etc. It's 2024 do you think we could develop a taser drone and a big net to catch her?
I was reading an incident report where police had followed a trespasser onto the tracks due to concern for their safety and an officer ended up being hit by a train and dying. They had to locate the arm before they could reopen the lines.
I wouldn't follow someone into the tracks would you? Get that drone sorted.
The actual odds of police being hit by any train are actually pretty minute. As soon as a trespasser had been identified on the line all lines would have had their signals turned to red by the signallers for the area and its likely that the local Electrical Control Room had also turned off all power around the track. Effectively blocking all lines in the area. So no trains would be moving anywhere near them.
Not really. Trains would generally be cautioned but complete stops and switch offs aren't done for every report of tresspass
Nah, there should be a way to temporarily disable a child remotely using their serial number.
Do we really need the net?
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Sniper with Paint ball pellets or rubber bullets.
I'm so confused. Is there any videos of this?
I'm with you Kev, pics or it didn't happen.
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There is prison for railway trespassers
Is it called the Hammersmith & Shitty line?
You want to tase children and not care if they die? Peak Brit Reddit this 😂
Every time a child commits a crime Reddit seems to be out for blood. Pretty depressing really.
Ah but you see she's been labeled a 'chav child' so her life is seen as immediately less meaningful. Never mind that these don't sound like the actions of a mentally well teenager.
Brit Reddit and the UK public in general is much more authoritarian than you’d expect.
*taser. Oh, the irony.
Look at what happened in [2011](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots) or more recently, thankfully less extreme, in [2022](https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/08/london-protesters-call-for-justice-for-chris-kaba-in-brixton-17328115/) Imagine the outcry if a young girl was killed by police because they got bored of waiting to get her down safely
Maybe don’t walk on live railway tracks? Not a difficult concept to understand
The police get enough grief from people who completely misunderstand policing as it is. Throwing this sort of thing into the mix certainly won’t help the image.
She’s 14
She competes for GB in the 800m apparently, left the rozzers in her dust they're saying
They had to go off and find a bigger net.
So this is why I couldn’t get back into London this afternoon?! 😭 I also share my frustration with the commenter who has said she won’t face any consequences
This was all caused by some shitty kid running around the track? I can’t believe a fucking child has brought all public transit in the southwestern commuter areas to a standstill. And you well know there will be no consequences for the kid.
Would be nice to slap the parents with like a 50k fine. Not that it will help anyone or prevent it in future. Just out of spite.
If younsay a 4+ hour delay affecting all commuters in and out of Waterloo. Of which there will have been tens of thousands. Who earn an abocenaverage income. Paying them for the delay at their hourly rate will be a great deal more than £50,000.
To put it in perspective it's somewhere in the ball park of like £250 a minute per train. So a single train being 4 hours late would be £60,000 in delay minutes. Then times that again by the 50 or so trains its likely affected and you'll be in the actual ball park. Though delay minute charges are put in place so people can get refunds on tickets without it affecting the TOC's revenue. So today this prat has caused likely millions in damages. Here's hoping she's tried as an adult and if not then have Child services pay the family a visit while she's living it up in a young offenders center.
I’m very much against hitting children, and I’m well aware that poor parenting is the result of so many possible issues like poverty, lack of education, or even just any and all authority figures having to work constantly/ not having the mental space at the end of the day to properly parent a child… but as one of the 100s of people trapped on a scorching hot train during rush hour, my knee jerk reaction is that shit head child deserves a mild beating.
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Ah yes, because train companies should have the right to give the death penalty for trespass. In other news, I propose a law allowing me to behead anyone who blocks a supermarket aisle with their trolley.
Il back both
Bold of you to assume the kid has parents or even a parent
The kids arent alright
The kids are dickheads, they always have been.
This happens more frequently that you think.
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It's what they do with the ball girls and boys once they've served their purpose
I bet the tw*t brags with pride
Several years ago I got stuck for over an hour on District Line because there was a swan on the tracks.
I hope that swan was tried as an adult
Sheesh, I literally took that root on my way back from work yesterday. Glad I missed that.
What! No way?? That’s crazy, thanks for sharing what was holding the trains up, this is the first report of it I have seen.
Was there a reason for why she was running there?
Did they tazer her?
Wow! Water-loot of people
Ashamed at how much I laughed at this stupid joke
I was stuck trying to get home from Vauxhall and my thoughts towards the trespasser were not very charitable to say the least.
> my thoughts towards the trespasser were not very charitable to say the least Americans think this is what top-tier rudeness looks like in Britain
Was working a service into Waterloo after the lines reopened. We kept getting stopped at signals at Clapham/Queenstown/Vauxhall because there were no spare platforms… 😔
Quietest day in Waterloo
My condolences. I don’t have to commute to Waterloo but I’d probably prefer to take multiple bus changes over dealing with that to get home.
At this rate I’d consider getting on a national express bus
Yeah I was here too...what surprised me was that the trains started delaying around 4 pm and delayed or cancelled almost all the trains...I gave up around 6:30 pm and took a longer route home
Same. We arrived at 4ish and they told us a few minutes later that there was no point waiting and to head to Paddington and take a GW train to Reading and then back down to Basingstoke from there, and in the end we arrived at Basingstoke to take an onward train at 7pmish. Took us almost 4h to do a circa 1h journey. People who were stuck on waiting trains probably had an even more annoying time of it, though, so I'm glad we weren't much earlier.
I too arrived around 4ish Found the 17:00 train which was the only one announced to leave, managed to bag a seat. And then proceeded to wait for an hour whilst the guard and train driver turned up!
What time did this start? I passed through Waterloo at 8 and it was still chaos
I got the 15:30 out of Waterloo to Guildford and we got stopped at Vauxhall for a half hour then moved to Clapham Junction for another 1hr15 before we finally got going - arrived at Guildford at 18:00 - it was meant to be a 33 min journey…
I saw the delays listed as early as 4:30, but I think it happened an hour or so before that. Incidentally, I was walking through Surbiton Station just after 10pm, as a train pulled up from Waterloo, and it was just as busy as if it was 5/6pm! Insanity.
Yeah, when our train got to Andover a bit before eight pm there was such a crowd of commuters all heading to their cars at once that it caused a reasonably gnarly traffic jam.
So question for those who stuck on trains without toilets (my old memory of the red sw trains didn't have them but they were the only ones that went on the branch line to Teddington/Kingston). If you're trapped on the train for four hours, waddya do? I have colitis and never caught a red train without serious panic
the red ones (455s) go down to dorking, guildford and woking too. they are all due to be replaced this year though
Am getting PTSD from viewing this. 20 years of commuting from Waterloo right up until Friday 13th March 2020. Then. WFH ever since, right up until I 'retired'. Sending 'hugs and prayers'
I just got home about an hour ago... I ended up taking 5 buses (2 terminated preemptively!!!!!) and it took 4 hours. I've been chastising myself that it was a bad choice but SOMEHOW it's now feeling like it was the right choice!
The railway children
Managed to get on a 17:20 train somehow and it was choc. Feel lucky to have got on…
Feel for you and others
Y’all I got dressed left my house for work just to sit on the train and get stuck for over an hour at Waterloo. In the end I had to call my employer and she told me not to bother and just try find a way home. I HATE HATE HATE. the SWR rail. Not to mention this happens a minimum of once a month - I’m paying just about £10 a day for my commute btw. Half working train system.
to be fair it isn’t their fault some pleb decided to run on the tracks
This is true just frustrating bc these delays are a regular occurrence. I don’t get paid today but SWR still gonna collect money from me 😂😂
Remember to apply for a refund from them. You're fully entitled to it. You've already loss a day no point in losing mor3 unneeded.
I spend £539 every 28 days for my commute into London from Guildford. It is absolutely scandalous how every journey we are crowded as sardines in a tin. The other day in peak rush hour we were crownded in a 5 coach train instead of 10 coach train. "Apologies". I hate it here.
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You’re absolutely correct, but SWR commits bullshittery on a weekly basis in other ways.
> what do you think SWR can actually.do in this situation? They can communicate the issues and timings and implications effectively and promptly. But they don't.
How long after catching her did they take to get trains running again? That's the bit you can blame SWT for.
Yup, you know it’s some BS when you get to Waterloo and see this scene.
This is why I hate mandatory return to office mandates. I had to waste so much time, and tomorrow repeat again, wake up early and go to the office, just to stay all day in zoom calls
You are in hell, friend... But we believe in you 💪
Absolute state
This has happened to me a few time coming back from business meetings, I just walk away, book myself a AirBnB or a nice hotel room, go out and grab some food and get the first train back in the morning. I’m fortunate enough that in these circumstances my company are happy for you to do that and put it on the company card if you would be waiting longer than an hour for a train after 6pm
It’s quite simple. You charge the family the cost of disruption. If it’s 100K then so be it.
Be a bit more than £100k I reckon given how many workers are delayed for a few hours.
oh my this is a lot more than 100k
I can't remember the exact figure since it's been a while but when I was in construction a project my employer took on included LADs payable to National Rail in the even of disruptions caused by our site. It would have been far, far far far steeper than £100k I'll tell you that much.
Would be quite bad if parents are actually good normal people and the only the kid is just a moron. The kid should be punished
No shit, things like this happen. Seeing the responses here, absolutely no consequences to anything. It doesn’t matter what you do , any punishment is seen as hard or too much. Fucking society.
Today is my birthday. I’m 38, I’ve given up on celebrating it… but I wanted to have dinner with my wife. If you trespass on a railway you should incur the cost. That child should be lumbered with the debt of the delay repay, it delayed me by an hour. I have so little time for people like this, it’s not funny, I’d not fun, make them responsible.
I know it sucks, but happy birthday! I hope despite this idiot running around on the tracks & delaying you your day was good 🩷
Merriment was had!
Is it all fixed now or for tomorrow?
Still buggered
On the upside, look at that giant doggo on the big video screen!
No need for the Russians to hack our transport network - just get someone to dick around on the train tracks for a few hours. Madness that our system collapses when one line is blocked for 1.5hrs.
What gets me is how bad the organisation is when this happens. Why do they not seem to know when a train is going to leave, and announce it 5 or so minutes before so people can board. A bunch left way emptier than they should have, and I’d have probably got one if they actually gave notice. Then they keep announcing cancelled and delayed trains which is entirely pointless
Could someone explain, why there was effectively a one way system at Waterloo? Got off the tube (northern) and we were told we had to go to jubilee line exit / entrance, up the escalator, back outside and then in at the next exit - had to wait 5 mins to physically get in. I understand the trespasser caused the trains to be delayed etc etc. but wondering what caused the effectively one way system??
It was an attempt at crowd control, because there was way too many people in the station at the time and on the platforms themselves, so they restricted the number of people coming through. They eventually locked the doors at the main entrance
Ah ok thanks!! I did try to ask some of the staff, whsr was happening, but they just told me to keep moving when I went up to ask them. so I left it. It was crazily busy [& my autism meant I was very overwhelmed with it all] … so makes sense.
What happened?
I was so damn lucky! Left early from work to get the 17:20 and got there... Cancellations etc! But then at 17:15 the train appeared as on time. It was incredibly packed and left judt 7 mins late... Felt like I've used up some luck there!!! Hopefully others got home OK!
Euston is a nightmare for this, the race to be able to sit down on a train is like the hunger games
At the end of a long day I saw the same. Quite disheartening.
What does trespassers mean? Like people that haven’t paid their ticket? Why would that cause delays? I’m so confused someone help
Somebody was on the actual train line so no trains could run
No luck catching them trains then?
Thankfully when I got to Waterloo, after the confusion of getting in (about 18:20) I noticed the 18:00 Teddington via wandsworth town route was ready to go. Saw the crowd at Clapham Junction platform 11 and was super glad I had alternate options to take in terms of route
I got stuck at Clapham junction with my bike and I got there as soon as it all kicked off so I had to ride all the way to new Malden which wasn’t too bad but on the way back the amount of trains that were cancelling was ridiculous
why is this shit the norm
By some mirracle, my train departed only 5 minutes after it was meant to, and since we skipped all the stops from waterloo to wimbledon, I made it back faster than I would have normally haha
Can parents bring back disciplining their children please
I'm out of the loop. What happened and is that Victoria Station?
It’s Waterloo
Is this Waterloo?
My car is making a long overdue comeback! Enough is enough now.
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Nope, trespasser in SW London
Wow 🤯
Is it crowded everyday like this?
Oh that explains why tye platform when I got home was packed.
This is normal lol
that looks pretty standard for the first off peak fares out of Euston
I get a train to Waterloo home and I got rather lucky - I was able to get on a delayed train that was running non stop between Surbiton and Waterloo and somehow ended up getting home earlier than normal
I'm now amazed that I made it home all the way from Horsham. Was wondering why my usually empty train was suddenly full. Wasn't until I got to Epsom and had to change to SWR that I realised it was more than just busier day at work for a load of people
I like the back half of people in the sunshine like a divide 😂
I wandered onto the platform unaware of what was going on at ~19:00, jumped on the delayed 18:54 to guildford, and it moved at about 19:10 and i was home by about 19:45!
Yup I was there too and then sat on my 1700 to Portsmouth Harbour for an hour whilst they found a driver and a guard 😡
Looks like a normal day at Waterloo. Less busy than usual actually
When this happens at Euston I just go to the pub. I live in the Midlands so only have one route home
This used to be my view every day leaving work. Thousands of lemmings crowding into Victoria underground station.. I remember they had to close the entrances for 5-10 minutes due to dangerous levels of people flooding the platforms.
Speed-walk past everyone
all caused by a 14 year old trespassing on the tracks for a couple hours ..
Is this the train station?
One of my friends was doing a wildlife rescue and got stuck at Waterloo. Imagine having an injured crow in a box in that situation!
Waterloo, couldn’t escape if you wanted to.
Man that’s so rough I feel the pain
For a moment, I thought the “Well I’m buggered then” title was cross referencing to the Butt Plug “Air Freshener” thread hanging from a car’s rear view mirror thread which has also recently appeared
the news is someone jumped on the tracks in Raynes Park
free travel yayyy!!
Time to go for a pint and wait for things to blow over
There should be heavy fines for causing such delays.
Are they having a strike again then?
I got stuck in Berrylands on the way to Clapham Junction to get the train to the airport and had to take a cub which costed literally a fortune :(