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	<title>Once more unto the Merseyrail, dear friends, once more</title>
	<link>http://www.miseryrail.co.uk</link>
	<description>More than just a journey, it's a trauma. Life on the Merseyrail ...</description>
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		<title>&#8220;This train is terminating because it&#8217;s late &#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s nice then. You wait in Moorfields for the 5:36 to West Kirby, and it doesn&#8217;t turn up. No announcement, just a big space where the train should be standing at the platform.
The &#8216;Information Board&#8217; was totally cocked-up, changing every minute or so with what appeared to be a random selection of train destinations and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miseryrail.co.uk/2010/03/this-train-is-terminating-because-its-late/</link>
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		<title>Lies, damned lies and Merseyrail statistics &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I&#8217;ve slightly altered Charles Wentworth Dilke&#8217;s  saying, but I would so dearly love to know how Merseyrail (and presumably the other train operators) arrive at their PPM performance figures.
Tonight is the second night this week (and it&#8217;s still only Wednesday) that I&#8217;ve had my journey home ruined because one of Merseyrails 30 year-old piles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miseryrail.co.uk/2010/02/lies-damned-lies-and-merseyrail-statistics/</link>
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		<title>And again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s two journeys in a row that have been cocked up &#8211; I&#8217;m sitting at Manor Road waiting for the next train, thanks to Merseyrail being unable to run the 11:56 because of &#8220;operating difficulties&#8221;. What are those then, finding a train that works, perhaps?
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		<link>http://www.miseryrail.co.uk/2010/02/and-again/</link>
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		<title>Wirral line tonight &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet again, the point of using the Merseyrail &#8216;Twitter&#8217; feed to keep people updated of problems on the trains proves pointless.
There were issues with the signals at Hamilton Square this evening, apparently, and this caused problems for all Wirral line trains. I was lucky, I got home only a few minutes late, but my other-half got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miseryrail.co.uk/2010/02/wirral-line-tonight/</link>
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		<title>Quote of the week &#8230; if not of 2009, perhaps.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“We are well used to dealing with crowds at underground stations.”
This is from a Merseyrail spokesperson, Rudi Boersma, referring to the chaos at James Street yesterday. You can read about the incident here.
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		<link>http://www.miseryrail.co.uk/2009/12/quote-of-the-week-if-not-of-2009-perhaps/</link>
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		<title>Whats the point &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; of a &#8220;Service Status&#8221; ticker, right on the top of your website, that isn&#8217;t reliable (ignoring for a moment the fact that you can&#8217;t even run a reliable rail service for the commuters of Merseyside)?
There are no trains running on the West Kirby line this morning, thanks to a track failure at Meols, yet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miseryrail.co.uk/2009/11/whats-the-point/</link>
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		<title>West Kirby Line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[7.10am this morning &#8230;
&#8220;Due to an incident in the meols area, services on the West Kirby line are suspended between West Kirby and Bidston. A rail replacement bus service should shortly be operating.&#8221;
UPDATE: Merseyrail can&#8217;t be blamed for this one, by the looks of things someone managed to not see the train coming when they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miseryrail.co.uk/2009/11/west-kirby-line/</link>
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		<title>Merseyrail service updates via Twitter &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; are not to be relied upon. Not if last night was anything to go by.
There was chaos on the Northern Line, and the Wirral line trains were running ten to fifteen minutes late, all of this during the evening peak period, and there wasn&#8217;t a Tweet to be heard.
I found out because my girlfriend phoned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miseryrail.co.uk/2009/11/merseyrail-service-updates-via-twitter/</link>
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		<title>It must be winter &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It must be winter again, because having made us sweat our way through a mild autumn, Merseyrail turned off the heating on the train this morning.
Thanks Merseyrail for a good start to my Monday morning, travelling to work on a freezing cold train.
Thank the Gods I&#8217;m away for the rest of the week, in my own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miseryrail.co.uk/2009/11/it-must-be-winter/</link>
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		<title>Birdy bread-bomber&#8217;s shenanigans shut the LHC &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an incident almost as bizarre as the recent adverse weather excuses used by Merseyrail &#8230;
A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week which saw significant overheating in sections of the mighty particle-punisher&#8217;s subterranean 27-km supercooled magnetic doughnut. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miseryrail.co.uk/2009/11/birdy-bread-bombers-shenanigans-shut-the-lhc/</link>
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