Richard Lartey

Music ops. Not here much anymore, but the views I do share here are my own.

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

.@paramore at The O2 tonight was just a bunch of late-twenty/thirty-somethings who have grown up listening to this band having a good old singalong on a Sunday night, and it was everything!

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

@SW_Help I’m trying to get to CHY via WYB. The next service has also left Waterloo 19 minutes late. What’s to say that one doesn’t run fast too?

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

@SW_Help I’m really confused. Do you run train services for the customers or for your performance stats?

Sure there’s disruption, but why have you decided to run 2F55 fast and kick everyone off at Surbiton? There are no services behind that have left Waterloo running that route.

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

Hey @SW_Help rushing the withdrawal of the class 455 so that you can run more 450s on busy suburban services is a disservice to your customers.

These trains are terrible on busy commuter routes. Take 2F49 for example, if that were a 455 or Arterio it wouldn’t have run so late.

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

@SW_Help I’m at WYB and I need to get to CHY. Can you let me know how I can do that please?

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

@secretglasto Is that you giving us the green light then?

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

@SW_Help If you’re at Weybridge how would you advise that you get back to Chertsey? You have no staff here and the help point didn’t help?

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

@LewisJ815PARKS It’s super super easy to drive there. We stayed overnight in Nieuwpoort, but it’s perfectly doable as a day trip.

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

@SW_Help CLJ to CHY via WYB.

The 18:02 service was also cancelled.

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

@SW_Help why have you decided that running to your timetable is more important than taking people home?

Running this service fast because it’s 4 minutes late is absolutely insane, especially when a 4min delay is completely normal for this service.

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

@SW_Help is there a particular reason why the middle connecting doors on the 458/4’s are only sometimes, but very rarely open?
From the outside it looks like either not all guards have the same instructions - or your guards just like to spread out in the driver cab.

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

@OutsmartedPlay It’s okay, I’ve requested a return from Amazon.

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

If you didn’t love them in their “GP2 engine” days, you don’t deserve them today.
Big up McLaren!
#F1 #AbuDhabiGP

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

If @ChappellRoan did water fountains.

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

@RacePhotoJohn @SkySportsF1 You’re joking? And nobody has thought to fix it?!

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

Honestly the @SkySportsF1 broadcast this weekend has been so bad. Second day in a row that they’re showing random world-feed clips instead of the Sky Pad. #SkyF1

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

And yes I’ve come out of my Twitter retirement just to say this. It’s been that bad.

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

Looks like T3 at @HeathrowAirport has been a mess this week.

Ten items checked in for our flight on Tuesday, only four made it to our destination.

Three bags arrived today, three are still missing. AirTag still shows them at Heathrow. @British_Airways tracker has no info.

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

@Mel_Motorsport @monzo Oh weird you got this at the same time too. Everything goes into our JA so we meet the requirements. There are a bunch of people on the Monzo forum with the same, so I’m convinced it’s a bug. I’ve asked Monzo support about it and I’m waiting for a specialist to get back to me.

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

@SW_Help Next to the accessible toilet, so 3 I believe?

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

@SW_Help are you aware that train 2S22 has tissue covered in human faeces on the floor outside the toilet? It absolutely stinks in that carriage

[Richard Lartey @giloi]

@SW_Help I’m no-longer on that train. Changed at VIR.

It’s also a short-formed service so it’s likely your customers will have to stand in the area once it gets busier 😷