I hate to say I told you so, especially when it's something which is dumping from a great height on so many people, but the official explanation from Network Rail (& the Government) for today's chaos in the rail system due to repair & upgrades over running by 300% [and maybe more by the time they eventually finish] is a lack of qualified and experienced engineering personnel to carry out the work. You'd have thought that before ripping up one of the major transport arteries for the country, they'd have made sure that they had everything & everyone in place to do the job in the toime that they'd allowed themselves. Failing that, you'd hope that they would have told the rail companies that they weren't going to finish in time a bit quicker than just 4 hours before services were due to re-start.
If this performance keeps up and spreads throughout the UK , we'll be so deep in the brown stuff we'll all need snorkels.
