I don't mind the big delays, really. There's usually an understandable reason, steps are (hopefully) being taken to manae the situation, and there's a bit of Delay Repay at the end of the tunnel. Yesterday was such a day with issues at Westerleigh.

But the little delays do my head in.

Today I decided to go the cheap and slow way with a Salisbury split. CDF-PMH had no specific issues. It started from the far end of the platform at CDF so I even had the rear car of the 5 to myself at the start of the journey.

But it left CDF a few mins down for no obvious reason. It spent more than the booked few mins reversing at BRI. It lost a minute here and there, all over, whether by dwell time or by point to point time. I checked on OTT maps - once or twice there was an obvious conflict, but otherwise nothing stood out - "lost path" wouldn't explain it.

I was in the end vehicle so maybe I missed something going on further along. Platforms.were busy where expected but it wasn't rammed.

I was hoping to change at PMH so I could find a seat and luggage rack on my Southern connection at my leisure. I ended up bailing out at PMS. (Still fine - officially I should have changed at FTN - but still.annoyjng when I could have made a nice connection at PMH had it run as advertised).

Now the Southern train is doing the same. It started 1 down after arriving late from previous journey - there's a reason.

But here we go again. A minute here and a minute there. At one junction there was a conflict (which was announced) but what about the rest of the journey? There was hope of recovery around Barnham but the dwell (with attachment) ended up being much longer than booked - now about 10 down. Wouldn't know from announcements that there's any delay. At least acknowledge it with one announcement referring to this as "the delayed..."!

Connection at TBI most likely to be missed. Lift and others waiting for me to be held back. I can't even give a "big" reason for it. I wouldn't mind as much if there were an incident soemwhere, or even if it were a particularly hit or icy day requiring more caution. But this is just trains dithering.