Topic ID 1590
Last night at approx 2am, I thought the world was coming to an end! I live near to the Hertford East line and every now and again we get a note through the door saying that there will be engineering works in the in the middle of the night on a certain day. This is fair enough and we make the appropriate provisions like keeping windows shut or staying at friends for the night. Last night, being a sultry summer night, we kept all our windows open. WELL .. at 2am we were awoken by the most horrendous noise. I seriously thought an airplane had crashed! .. I looked out and saw workers on the line. This carried on for over an hour and was impossible to sleep. I know this work has to be carried out and fully accept that the only time this can be done is in the twighlight hours.. BUT 'One' or 'Network Rail' could have done the decent thing and to pop a note through the door a few days before to warn us, especially as windows are more than likely to be open during the summer months?? ... Yet another example of the shoddy way the rail network services treat it's customers.