Well, the 06:40 turned up late and came into the station from the south..... Does the 06:10 start from Pboro? If so, perhaps that was it, renamed to the 06:40 so that it was "on-time" (nearly)

The 07.00 turned up at 07.22 and they blamed floods between Newark and Grantham. The 07.20 arrived at 07.26 with the same excuse. In fact every NXEC southbound service was delayed probably for the same reason. Nothbound seemed OK though.

Well I use NXEC daily but I commute north in the morning on the 07:51. I can say that we ran at normal line speed all the way to Doncaster - what floods between Newark and Grantham?

I certainly didn't see any - it's just a pathetic excuse for their incompetence. They are a shambles. As you say 3 weeks into the year, 3 delay repay claims already and a complaint form. It is nearly two weeks since the first delay repay and all the correspondence I have had is a letter confirming the dates for payment of my season ticket scheme direct debit!

They said they were going to be better than GNER - well they are; they are much better at making a complete hash of running a train service.

At least three times this year my seat booking has disappeared without trace as well.

Finally the internet service is a farce as well - I can see why GNER provided it free to first class only - the on train server just doesn't have enough capacity for a train that is half full let alone a full one.

think it was the 8:00, but it didn't show till about half eight this morning - mate down the line at Grantham belled me as well to say his train around 8:30 was cancelled too, yay for wednesday!!

As far as I know this morning delays from leeds were put down to an amount of cable theft in the leeds area. (The signal cable so I'm told).
There were also speed restrictions on the up lines (to london) between doncaster and grantham, due to the high water levels in that area.
Don't quote me on that 100%, as this is what I heard anyway.

I travelled on the 07.20 from Peterborough to London on 23/01/08 and the reason given for the small delay was "temporary speed restrictions between Retford and Newark" - which is fair enough I think.

Please dont expect any real change untill they have weeded out every ex GNER employee and got rid of the lazy bastards. These are the people sabotaging the service.

Expect to see the old gner staff hitting the employment tribunals for unfair dismissal. Expect the government to appoint a quango to find out whats gone wrong, another department to check on the first department and yet another to make sure we get value for money.

This country is going to the dogs on a wave of political correctness which will tear away the balls of this country.

How long before bacon sandwiches are banned beacuse it might offend a muslim?

The 0610 was cancelled due to the guard having problems getting into Kings Cross on time. The 0640 usually starts from Leeds but due to cable theft in Leeds it couldn't run. So when a guard was available the 0610 train went to Peterborough to form the 0640 service. This is a situation that is far from ideal but it is better than cancelling both services.

Performance does seem to be getting worse at the moment which is frustrating for us as well as our customers. The printer at Leeds has packed up again!

It seems that Network Rail could perhaps do a little more to help our performance figures. They are good at putting freight trains in the way or forgetting to set the signals properly.

Ahhh the good old NXEC webshite is up to its usual high standard I see. The 16:30 to Edinburgh has a red D next to it (which says cancelled when you hover over it), but the text to the right says "This service expected to be on time"....

Plus, a red D isn't in the legend at the top (green E: early, orange D: delayed, red C: cancelled)

Guess if you're going for this one, I'd watch out, could be on time, delayed or cancelled!

well chaps decided to travel to london on a first class ticket from Grnatham. The single fair is now £70. Its cheaper to fly from Heathrow to Rome.

Anyway I settled back and had the first coffee on offer. Then expecting a top up at Peterborough was told the coffee was only for new peterborough travellers.

Penny pinching to the extreme.

Perhaps they will invest all this money they are making in the infrastructure.