Date: 16/06/2016

'I'm six months pregnant. At least once a week it will take three or four hours just to get home.' 'Haywards Heath is a prime location for turfing you off the train and leaving you stranded with hundreds of people.' 'My work is suffering. It has taken me an average of three hours to get home every night last week. It should take an hour and 10 minutes'. With hundreds of cancellations every day, for months, passengers on board Southern trains are at the end of their tether. The company is currently cancelling five times more trains than the operator with the next worst record. Bearing the brunt of the mayhem are people using the line linking London to Brighton, which is already one of the most congested routes in Britain. I have heard about people going part-time or giving up work altogether because the trains are so bad.

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