Grid lock!!!

[cngarrod]

Hi,

Any one else get caught in the grid lock last night?

Left Reading @ 4.00 pm and arrived at Ipswich at 01.20 this morning!

Mate of mine left at same time and was still on A1 at 07.00 this morning!!!

Bloody stupid, 2 - 3 inches snow and the entire country grinds to a halt! Was supposed to fly to Prague this morning but bloody airport closed - great!

Ho Hum,

Craig.

 

[sailbadthesinner]

I have been ranting about this all day.
The whole bloody country grinds to a halt at the merest drop of snow. was the snow forecast ??? yes. so why does the whole thing stop. it took 2 hours to get off our HQ business park for crissakes. Mrs s2B travelled 8 miles in 2 hours.

The m25 is not the back of beyond. seems to me saddam should be working on weapons to that will dump 8 inches of snow on us. civilisation will probably stop here. except in the countryside where people just carry on.
sorry rant over.

Ok brain let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer.

 

[BarryH]

Thats alright, a council in SW london sent out the road sweepers instead of the gritters. It gave to roads a nice polished shiny effect. By all accounts there's a curling contest in Wimbledon High St lunch time!

 

[byron]

<font color=blue>Crazy isn't it. I was in Athens a few years back when an unexpected snowstorm dumped 6" over the city and of course the roads leading in and out. All roads were open and running at all times yet Athens rarely sees any snow, about once every 20 years at most.

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[toobaz]

Told you before Craig...........................the boat is only good on the water and road trips don't count for sea time!

Baz

 

[cngarrod]

Wish it bloody was mate...

How's the new motor?

Cheers,

C

 

[BarryD]

Tough luck Craig.

To be honest though - I'm not sure where all this congestion is.

I left the office at 17:30 and walked through the storm to Euston (about two miles away) caught the 18:09 which ran slow and stopped for a while - brand new excuse "Hot Axles on the train in front - the man had to get out and feel them..."

Got in my car in a snow free MK and drove home. This morning no snow or ice on the car but bloody cold -3, I caught the 06:45 on time and was back at my desk for 08:00. Lots of stories of snow and being stuck in the car etc.. but nothing where I am.

Come flock to me I am a bubble of warmth in the frozen wastelands of London.

Game (almost) over...

 

[gonfishing]

sunny and dry here in swansea not a drop of the white stuff to be seen. Had a Lord something or other on the phone this morning complaining that the engineer was late getting to him to install his cable tv. advised the lord something or other that the technician assigned to his job was snow bound and could not get into work reply not bl***y good enough as he has been waiting over half an hour etc.etc.etc
no pleasing some people just cannot get the staff What.

 

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[paulineb]

ooh - she had better not read this or you will be eating certain bits of your anatomy for tea tonight

Pxx

 

[ccscott49]

Scotland doesn't come to a grinding halt! We're used to it, it's just you wee jessie sassenachs! It's just the government again I'm afraid, they got rid of all the gritting trucks and snowploughs, cut backs, didn't need them, stopped buying too much salt etc. etc. No, I'm not joking, or being ridiculous, thats what happened.

 

[toobaz]

Motor's fine...................................just wish I could get some speed out of her. 500 miles since I got it and done an average speed of 31 mph. What is all that about.
Grid locked all the time.............................

Baz

 

[Forbsie]

Oh come on, Colin, you can't expect them to pay for everything!!

They only get £86billion or summat from drivers so where's the money to clear the roads from. At least it was freezing last night so the drivers had to keep their engines running using up all their petrol so the Govt is quids in, I suppose.

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[toobaz]

Now what is that about? Hemel Hempstead was a total grid lock and MK is just up the road, took an hour just to get to the M25 and the joke was there was no hold up's between Hemel and Heathrow because everyone was driving at 40mph..............................go and figure?

Baz

 

[kimhollamby]

Try South West Trains Grrrrgh!

Sat on 1926 out of Waterloo last night which left at around 2000 when a replacement driver finally appeared. As it turned out our by now two-trains-worth of passengers in one set of carriages departed only moments before the only slightly late 1956 which then proceeded to overtake us at Clapham Junction, running virtually empty.

We then crawled all the way to Ascot, as if being preceded by a man with a broken leg carrying a red flag, only to be tipped off onto the freezing platform there without further ado and no explanation. 'Our' train then sat on the platform for ages waiting for another Waterloo train to overtake it, before heading London-wards again because our driver "had to get home."

About 25 minutes later another train turned up to finally carry us onwards again. Spent most of the waiting time a) wondering just how difficult it is to drive a train (given that the driver's door remained open on 'our' train) and b) whether they have Internet and modem access for prisoners convicted of hijacking trains.

This morning the 0715 and then the 0732 both cancelled because of problems variously described as points failure, power failure and technical problems. The only common denominator was Clapham Junction, self-styled Britain's busiest station (and hence a location with a few railway peeps one would have hoped). The 0745 staggered at 0805 and finally made it to Waterloo at just gone 0930 after assembling a density of passengers that would have made a third world steam train seem spacious.

I have written to the company in the past, only to receive three photocopied pages of excuses posing as a personal reply in response. Expect I am in very good company, judging by last night's comments. If Britain ever sees a civil war in the 21st Century, I predict it'll spark off on the platforms served by South "I'm sorry to have to inform you" West Trains.

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[paulineb]

Re: Try South West Trains Grrrrgh!

Shouldn't you have finished your post with "This is the personal opinion of Kimmie 'the sinbinner' Hollamby and in now way reflects the views of IPC Media who may or may not be major shareholders in South "I'm sorry to have to inform you" West Trains."

Pxx

 

[sailbadthesinner]

Re: Try South West Trains Grrrrgh!

in modern trains the driver does nothing
they only employ them cos they know people would worry about seeing a train with no driver on it.

Ok brain let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer.

 

[ccscott49]

Re: Try South West Trains Grrrrgh!

Bloody hell a train that was due to leave in 1926, didn't leave until the year 2000 some delay that and it was ovetaken by a train from 1956, I didn't realise the new railways were being run by Jules Verne!

 

[Forbsie]

Re: Try South West Trains Grrrrgh!

That doesn't bother the passengers on the Docklands Light Railway. Works brilliantly as long as no one changes the route or the computer program.

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[kimhollamby]

Re: Try South West Trains Grrrrgh!

There was a time last night when it felt like it had taken 74 years....

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