Fcuking National Fcuking Express Fcuking East Fcuking Anglia
Actually, it’s probably more Notwork Fcuking Rail, but regardless there just seems to be a complete bloody inability to run anything that looks even bloody remotely like a train these days. Due to a derailment in the Marks Tey area NXEA are delighted to inform me that I need to get a bus to Witham then a train the rest of the way into London. What with the amount of engineering works that have been going on for the past year you’d think things would be getting better, but no. They keep dropping bridges, having power lines fall down and trains hopping off the tracks on top of the whole run of the mill engineering works which seem to involve replacing everything everywhere and, in the case of the siding (yes, siding, not mainline track, siding. One of many. That could be closed during the day and worked on then) outside my flat, taking 6 months of Sunday nigts to do it. I’m going to have a lie down and go over the following fantasy in my head:
Scene: Meeting room somewhere. High ranking officials from NXEA and Notwork Rail sitting round the table. Me, prowling round, Glock 17 in hand.
Me: [Looking at head honcho of NXEA] Are there trains running this weekend between Colchester and London?
Head honcho of NXEA: Well, due to problem with a dera….Loud bang, guys head explodes in a pink mist, everyone sat round the table in shock
Me: [Looking at head honcho of Notwork Rail] Are there trains running this weekend between Colchester and London?
Head Honcho of Notwork Rail: Yes, but a part of your journey will have to be by bus…Loud bang, more pink mist. I turn to the next most important person…
You can work the rest out for yourself 
Look at it this way - if there hadn’t have been a derailment, all those people might have been working on the siding instead.
Which would you prefer?
Given I’m out all night I’d prefer them to work on the siding and get me home at a reasonable hour tomorrow morning instead of making me piss about with busses.