Well.. the train I got on was apparently originally the 1310.

In an attempt, I assume, to improve their stats in some way, it became (just before I got on it) the 1610, and sometime later the 1635. At 1640, after nearly an hour of apologising profusely because York weren't telling him anything useful, the guard told us that all the departure boards at KX had been switched off, and we were unlikely to be going anywhere for an hour.

At 16.55, without ANY warning, we left KX, crawled from Stevenage to Sandy, and made it in around 1800.

In short, as usual, NXEC and National Rail between them couldn't run a railway with actual customers on it if their lives depended on it.

If anyone was on the 13.10 for all of the afternoon (you poor sods) can they confirm how many times it was re-timetabled?

If you want to get home tonight.

I've just taken a call to say the overhead lines are down in the Biggleswade area and it's a bad one. As yet I don't know how bad it is or how long it's going to take to fix but I have been told it's likely to be a long time.

I've got my lap top and plenty of things to do on it so personally I'm giving myself the best chance possible of getting home at a reasonable time and I'm leaving now. I'll post an update if and when I get any news or indeed a chance to get on-line.