Over the Christmas period Liverpool Street station in London was closed by engineering works to allow for the demolition and installation of a new bridge on the approach to the station. The work took longer than expected and when the holiday was over the station was still closed because of the overrunning work, the same happened at Easter when engineering work once again over ran.
Today the station is once again closed because of a partial collapse of the new bridge and structural engineers are on site to ascertain the damage. The line operated by National Express East Anglia (formerly One Great Eastern) is known as the miserly line and the customers believe its the worst in the country.
As I drive to work if they are any break downs on public transport or late running trains it is normally this line that’s at fault.
But the latest situation just shows how bad our rail network as become, we know the network is bad but just how bad is it. Under funding by successive Governments has lead to the worlds rail network. Do we have any great engineers such Isambard Kingdom Brunel any more?
