Let's tally today's train travails.

• First thing: District line off, overrunning overnight engineering work.
• Overhead line damage, Birmingham services diverted via Northampton.
• Track fault reported, train instructed to inspect line dead slow, 45 minutes late into Brum.
• Overhead line damage still not repaired in the evening, diverted via Northampton again, 35 minutes late into London.
• Just miss a Richmond train, 10 minutes till the next one.
• ...and hold at a red while an Overground is let into the destination ahead of us.