One of my facebook buddies posted his typical Southern commute which is pretty much like mine. First your train gets delayed for no reason, then cancelled, then the next service does a platform dance, so you don’t know where its going with the Customer Information System (known as DARWIN for some reason). One really interesting one that might interest anyone is when I was at Guildford on the 9th June 2016, heavy rain and thunderstorms were forecast and while going through one train, I heard this:
“We are sorry to announce that the 18:13 Southern service from London Victoria has been delayed due to the condition of the platform surface. We are very sorry for the delay to your journey.”
And the return working was:
“We are sorry to announce that the 18:22 Southern service to London Victoria has been delayed due to flooding. We are very sorry for the delay to your journey.”
And you thought you heard it all!