General point - I've utilised the wonderful facilties offered by Southern from FH for 6 years now. Back then, the 'rush' period was from about 8.10 to 8.40, with very few suits on the trains. Since then, things have become steadilt busier, with the profile of the typical passenger also altering greatly (to my bleary morning eyes anyway). I'm afriad this is the price we must pay for south east london registering on the radar.

I've been getting to the station ever earlier to avoid the cattle phase, even failing to get a seat on a 7.25 or so last week. I think we should contact Southern to see if they monitor passenger levels to see if we can get FH's share of LB capacity increased? At least make all trains 8 carriages? The other trains sitting outside of LB do seem a little less packed than ours. But this may be a phenomenon similar to the other traffic jam queue always moving faster than yours....