I wouldn’t mind the Southern Rail ads on the trains being so badly designed and ugly if the service wasn’t so atrocious, but there’s something about the smug, smiling faces on the ads and the pretence that everything is hunky dorey that irks me to the point of redesigning the ads to show what it’s really like. I’d actually been cycling everywhere for weeks, so hadn't had to endure the service, but I took a Southern train the other day, and, yup, random cancellations and stops at red signals every few minutes still happening. Reassuring, almost, to know some things never change.

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