...is most accurately described as a COMPLETE BLOODY FIASCO.

"12:45pm: National Express East Coast is running a revised timetable with half the normal service operating due to services running at a reduced speed."

Ok. And you mean it took them till this lunchtime to realise that half the trains won't be in the right places to provide a service, if they run them at 50mph? I've been watching that unfold since 9am on the live departures board.

Check http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ldb/sumdep.aspx?T=KGX for details before going anywhere. And don 't trust the NXEC site.

[EDIT: oh, forgive me. The NationalRail link in the previous post did actually include the fact that half the trains aren't running, just not mention it explicitly. That's not a 'revised timetable', that's wholesale butchery. And it finally made it up on the NXEC site. As an EXCEL SPREADSHEET. *waves flags, cheers derisively* ]

...was, apparently, another NXEC day of ... I'd say shame, but I'm starting to think they don't have any.

See http://www.theticketcollector.co.uk/wordpress/2008/03/11/very-bad-day-for-nxec/

Were you going to mention THIS to your customers any time today? Or just let them find out about timetable updates the hard way, as usual?

(Thanks to SB for pointing this out!)

While we're at it? If anyone from FCC is reading this? You can have my season ticket money come April, just as soon as you start running a P'boro service that leaves KGX after 1600 and gets me into Peterborough before 1730.

From NXEC's site, which, saints preserve us, appears to contain USEFUL INFORMATION:

At 1745, the Met office has issued a severe weather warning for 12 March affecting the East Coast route. Severe gales with gusts of up to 80mph have been forecast between 0900-1400, easing mid afternoon.

Journey times are expected to be doubled between the North East/Yorkshire and London Kings Cross due to services running at a maximum speed of 50 mph during this period.

It is advisable that unless your journey is essential, to defer your journey. Tickets will be valid for travel on Thursday 13 March.