Southern train cancelled after mystery 'person urinates on driver's seat'

12:43pm Friday 1st February 2013 in News By Chris Baynes, Reporter

The Southern service was cancelled due to the discovery of mysterious liquid The Southern service was cancelled due to the discovery of mysterious liquid

A train was cancelled last night because someone urinated on the driver's seat, passengers were told. 

Hundreds of commuters were left waiting on the platform after the mysterious discovery of a pool of liquid behind the locked door of the train's driver cab.

The driver is said to have announced to passengers that someone had urinated on his chair.

The 21.52 service had been scheduled to travel from London Victoria to London Bridge.

Passengers were due to start their journeys to  Battersea Park, Clapham Junction, Wandsworth Common, Balham, Streatham Hill, West Norwood, Gipsy Hill, and Crystal Palace.

Stephen Hull, who was waiting for the train, tweeted: "My delayed train home cancelled cos somebody p****d in driver's seat.

"They took the entire train away cos the driver complained. Hundreds of people stuck at Victoria."

Mr Hull said he had seen a puddle of urine in the driver's cab.

Southern said they were investigating the incident but could not confirm that the suspect liquid was urine.

They said no member of the public could usually access the driver's cab and this was part of their investigation.

A spokesman for the train company said: "The 21.52 Victoria to London Bridge service was cancelled last night following reports from the driver that the driver’s seat was wet and unuseable.

"Passengers who were due to travel on the 21.52 service were able to complete their journey on the 22.22 service, and we apologise to them for the inconvenience this caused."

Comments(20)

ColP404 says...
1:25pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Someones taking the P***

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flibblywibble2 says...
1:48pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Haha! Somebody has a severe dislike for Southern trains! Not sure this helps though LOL

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debbierit says...
2:21pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Sorry for the inconvenience that the inconvenience caused ;-)

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tom_d says...
3:18pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Must have been the wrong kind of urine.

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Hove Ex-Pat says...
6:02pm Fri 1 Feb 13

In this era of security incidents surely we should be asking how this weak bladdered, or just blathered, person managed to gain entry to the drivers cab. This should not have been possible. Had his motives been of a more dubious nature anything could have been left there or the controls damaged.

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ANNE GILES says...
8:48pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Maybe the driver did it.

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Junfan Mantovani says...
10:35pm Fri 1 Feb 13

This is disgusting, whoever did it should be covered in someone elses pee-pee.

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321200 says...
2:02am Sat 2 Feb 13

Bet it's a driver that did it

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Krissi says...
10:10am Sat 2 Feb 13

There are public toilets at Victoria - and in all the pubs too there is no excuse for such disgusting behaviour at all I feel sorry for both the driver and all the people delayed by this person's actions

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Michael Pantlin says...
3:36pm Sat 2 Feb 13

"They took the entire train away cos the driver complained." How did they take the train away when the driver's seat was unusable?

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Michael Pantlin says...
3:37pm Sat 2 Feb 13

"They took the entire train away cos the driver complained." How did they take the train away when the driver's seat was unusable?

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Michael Pantlin says...
3:39pm Sat 2 Feb 13

Bet it was a passenger with a Weak End Return ticket.

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Michael Pantlin says...
4:27pm Sat 2 Feb 13

Pardon me, boy, is that the Chattanooga Poo-Poo?

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Estalished87 says...
7:38am Sun 3 Feb 13

Was lucky it was only number 1 and not number 2. Where would he have wiped?

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lordofzombies says...
7:40am Mon 4 Feb 13

it was probably the tickets, the new prices take the ****.

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andy_c says...
12:00pm Mon 4 Feb 13

@ Michael - if the driver can't sit and drive the train, then it's unusable! I think anyone - regardless of job - would rightly complain if they turned up to work to find their seat covered in urine.

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Michael Pantlin says...
8:09pm Mon 4 Feb 13

andy_c wrote:
@ Michael - if the driver can't sit and drive the train, then it's unusable! I think anyone - regardless of job - would rightly complain if they turned up to work to find their seat covered in urine.
Of course andy but you didn't answer my question just went off on another tack implying I said something I didn't.

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andy_c says...
11:20am Tue 5 Feb 13

Most likely by leaving it in the platform whilst it is cleaned (at 10pm it's not as if there is a shortage of platforms) or perhaps another unit was attached to the front it it to take it to the depot.

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andy_c says...
8:25pm Tue 5 Feb 13

And apologies for misreading your initial comment!

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Michael Pantlin says...
12:35pm Wed 6 Feb 13

andy_c wrote:
Most likely by leaving it in the platform whilst it is cleaned (at 10pm it's not as if there is a shortage of platforms) or perhaps another unit was attached to the front it it to take it to the depot.
Thanks Andy for the interesting information. These operational details are a source of great pleasure and fascination to me as an incurable lifelong railway and bus anorak.
As you sound an expert, maybe in the business, please post if you hear of any engineering diversions coming up that would allow me a ride in the daylight on an in service passenger train ex Waterloo diverted from Clapham Junction to Wimbledon via East Putney up the single track ramp and via the District Line. I got a ride in the middle of the night but could not see anything out of the window apart from the lit up stations on the District.

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