Train misery as drivers hit by taxi chaos
PROBLEMS getting train drivers to work by taxi has caused fresh disruption, continuing a week of misery for passengers.
Services on the Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink networks were delayed or cancelled yesterday.
Govia Thameslink Railway said: “The taxi provider had suffered a major failure of their booking system.”
It meant that “a large number of drivers were out of their correct positions or severely late-running”.
This issue followed two days of travel chaos for customers of South Western Railway.
Thousands waited for hours at London’s Waterloo on Tuesday evening after a fire under a train and other issues crippled services.