1215 Portsmouth Habrour - London Waterloo : Very unusual for me to be catching a train in the middle of the day but it was pleasant to see a ten car Desiro arrive at Fratton on time. Timekeeping as was excellent even though we had a couple of very slow runs between Havant and Petersfield and Petersfield and Havant. We arrived at Waterloo at 1351 - on time.

2315 London Waterloo - Portsmouth Harbour : Having waited the usual 8 minutes, for this time of day, for a Northern Line tube train - we legged it up to the platform, with a couple of minutes to spare. The train was an 8 car slam door train - the front four of which was heading straight towards scap pile at the end of service! We left Waterloo and Clapham Junction (2322) on time and arrived at Woking five minutes early at 2338. I think from memory that is the fastest I've ever done Clapham Junction to Woking - and it did feel fast! Surfice to say we arrived at Guildford, Haslemere, Petersfield and Havant early and had to wait before leaving. The real accomplishment though, was the journey between Havant and Fratton. We left Havant on time at 2337 and arrived at Fratton 6, yes six minutes later at 2343 - three minutes early. The only downside was that whilst travelling between Haslemere and Petersfield we went over a level crossing and the train, presumably due to the speed we were travelling, seemed to jerk with quite some force - and I was left wondering, just for a split second - whether we were still on the tracks. Speed it good - but let's not go to fast!

Christmas time is here again and this week was worse than last week - I did however use a wider range of departures across the week. Two trains arrived early (both on Christmas Eve), one train arrived on time and six trains arrived late. In saying that: only two trains arrived over five minites late(77.7%) - both on the way home. We did however face crawling delays again this week between Vauxhall and Waterloo in the morning for no apparent reason 3 mornings out of 5(60%). As far as the timetable goes - I'm still happy but lets see what January brings.

0615 Portsmouth Habrour - London Waterloo : The train was empty and an like a dream - you could count the number of people in my carriage on both hands. It was a faultless run - arriving early at each station and departing on time. The train arrived at Waterloo two minutes early - just goes to show, the reason that trains are always late is because passengers insist on getting on and off!

1330 London Waterloo - Portsmouth Harbour : Well it was my last train home before Christmas and it was formed as a 12 car slamdoor train. It performed as expected - fantastically well. We had such a slow run down to Woking and were two late at Woking. We left Guildford, one minute late and arrived at Haslemere one minute early. We then kept time through to Havant and rather than take the timetabled ten minutes through to Fratton, we did it in eight minutes and that included a slow run through Hilsea! We arrived at 1456 - two minutes early!

0713 Portsmouth Habrour - London Waterloo : Having had the work party the night before, I was lucky to get this one as I arrived at the station a good minute afer the train! Thankfully, I did catch it and it was fairly quiet - in fact it was very quiet - there were four of us in the rear carriage of ten! It arrived at Waterloo bang on time - just what was required when you have a hangover!

2345 London Waterloo - Portsmouth & Southsea : Again the last train home was my destiny. Tonight it ran with no issues and the guard was even nice enough to check that I was awake on arrival at Portsmouth & Southsea! We did arrive a minute late but that is forgiveable.

0644 Portsmouth Habrour - London Waterloo : It's never good when the train you want to catch turns up formed of eight commuter style carriages rather than ten long distance style carriages but it is exactly what happened today. This is the only reason we encountered delays as there appears to have been no advance warning to stations up the line that this is train was short formed and everyone was still waiting in their usual positions of carriages nine and ten. We lost five minutes buy Woking but had a good run into London Waterloo and arrived only three minutes late.

2345 London Waterloo - Portsmouth & Southsea : I found myself on the last train home but thanks to a £3 first class upgrade, a good sleep was on the cards. I was certainly not impressed when two little t**ts got on at Clapham Junction and thought that they were going to sit in first class for free and cause loads of noise - they didnt stay for long as everone else in first class were about to push them off the train otherwise!!! We were delayed because on arrival at Petersfield a couple of paasengers realised that they had slept through Guildford and wanted to know how they were supposed to get home!!!! We arrived seven minutes late.

0615 Portsmouth Habrour - London Waterloo : It was nice for the train to not be too packed but even still - it was busy. We ade good time dropping just a couple of minutes before Haslemere but made thoese up by Woking however we crawled from Vauxhall and arrived a couple of minutes late again at 0757.

Home via Megabus : South West Trains could learn something from megabus - it was £7.60 to get home and that included a 50p booking fee and a 10p text notification fee. It left five minutes late at 1905 from Victoria Greenline Coach Station on a clean, not full double decker coach and arrived in Portsmouth 35 minutes before it was due too - no bad! If booking six weeks in advance it is only £1.50 each way (including booking fee). The only downside is the lack of services - one each way each day. They leave Portsmouth at 0900 arriving in London at 1130 and returning from London at 1900 arriving in Portsmouth at 2135.

0644 Portsmouth Habrour - London Waterloo : Having not felt well today I chose to get a later train in. It was three minutes late by the time we left Havant and five minutes late after Petersfield. We were eight minutes late at Haslemere which I where I fell asleep! When I awoke we were going through a section of double track between fields and then it went down to single track for a couple of minutes before joining the mainline. I don't know why we went via the new line (Effingham Junction and Cobham) and not via Woking but it was very nice to see the frost covered fields which looked like a picture from a Christmas card! We were doing well making up time as well and arrived at Waterloo at 0834, just two minutes late. We probably would have been on time but crawled from Vauxhall into Waterloo.

1730 London Waterloo - Portsmouth Harbour : Having had the worst ever delays that I've encountered on the tube on the way to Waterloo, I just missed the 1700 service and had to be content with the 1730 slam door service formed of 8 carriages rather than 12 - it was packed! It left three late having been about ten minutes late in on the 'up' service. It lost another couple of minutes to Woking and another to Haslemere. Thanks to waiting at Havant Junction we were 7 minutes late at Havant and this was not made up by Fratton where we arrived at 1905 - seven minutes late. As for the tube delays - the Jubilee line service was not stopping at Waterloo due to localised power failure following a fire alert earlier in the day. So I took the Central line to Oxford Circus where the Bakerloo line was screwed up because of a fire alert on the northbound platform at Edgware Road. It took me 50 minutes to get from work to Waterloo which is an evening peak record and double the usual 25 minutes!

Well, week one is over and I'm impressed. Five minutes over four days (an average of 75 seconds a day) late - I can handle that! The delays were occuring on the way home which makes a change as the morning service normally always arrived at Waterloo late! At least now we don't sit between Vauxhall and Waterloo for two or three minutes due to 'congestion' and then arrive two or three minutes late! In saying that: 2 services were late, 3 services arrived on time and 3 services arrived a minute early! Of the two late services only one would have been 'officially' late (i.e. over 5 minutes late). That means that 87.5% of trains ran to time or early - those figures sound better than the low 70%s we were getting. It is a shame that it is necessary to have so much slack time in the timetable but if the service continues to run as it has done this week then I think I can put up with it! Overcrowding seems to be an issue and the hope is that SWT will look at this and realise that they need one extra train in the morning to ease the load. We wait to see what week two gives us (other than drunken party people)!

Day Off : No delays!

0615 Portsmouth Habrour - London Waterloo : Its starting to become a habbit now that this train arrives on time. Well it didn't - it arrived a minute early at 0754. It had previously left Fratton on time and we were lucky not to get caught out by the Fathers For Justice campaign around the Vauxhall area. That said, when we went through Vauxhall, I couldn't see anything out of the ordinary - but the I was asleep! - enough said really!

2345 London Waterloo - Portsmouth & Southsea : After a nite up in town I was amazed to arrive a Waterloo to see that this was ony a five car Class 444 Desiro train. It was packed and left Waterloo a couple of minutes late and Clapham Junction a minute late due to overcrowding. We then had a good sprint down to just outside Woking and I expected us to have made that time up but oh no!We sat there for three or four minutes and then casually made our way into the station - five minutes late. I finally managed to get a seat at Woking - thankfully! We were four late at Guildford and I fell asleep until just past Hilsea so can't comment! We arrived at Fratton on time and Portsmouth & Southsea one minute early! All in all - a very good day!

0615 Portsmouth Habrour - London Waterloo : Well it left on time, arrived on time and never seemed to wait anywhere for more than a minute. The only thing to report is that the guard mentioned that it could go back to being opperated by a 12 car slam door train next week as it's the only way that they can give everyone a seat! According to the guard, SWT managers are apparently hoping that passengers will get on alternative trains formed on new stock instead. I generally get on a specific train because I need to get somewhere, not because it is formed of new or old stock!

1700 London Waterloo - Portsmouth Habrour : Well yesterday I was impressed with the early running and today I was amazed when the train formed of new stock went even better. At Woking we waited best part of three minutes, even after the short hop down to Worpleston we waited for a good minute and at Guildford we waited again for two minutes. At Haslemere we waited for two minutes and at Petersfield, one. So thats nine minutes waiting in stations because we are early so far. We then were running down to Havant, waited for 90 seconds north of the Havant level crossing junction and then proceeded into Havant station on time. We waited a minute and left on time. Some how we then managed to loose two minutes between Havant and Fratton as we crawled along between Havant and Hilsea - it appears that this is one area where the new trains cannot keep to time! We arrived two minutes down at Fratton!

0644 Portsmouth Habrour - London Waterloo : Having overslept I had to catch the later train which after yesterdays scrum was very nicely loaded. It arrived at Fratton at 0853 on time and continued to perform well, arriving at Waterloo on time at 0832.

1730 London Waterloo - Portsmouth Habrour : OK, firstly delays - there were none! It left Waterloo on time, sat at Woking for two minutes, Guildford and Goadalming each for 90 seconds just waiting so that the train could leave on time - yes, it was early! Now, for some reason, it has been decided that the Pompey fast services should all be slam door stock between about 1600 and 1900 with the odd exception. Why oh why oh why have they done this? All the stopping services are being run Desiro! These have to call at Stations with short platforms where only half the doors can be opened whereas longer distance commuters are subjected to even longer on slam door trains - I'm not happy! We arrived a minute early at Fratton by the way!

0615 Portsmouth Habrour - London Waterloo : Left Fratton on time at 0624, and kept time until London Waterloo. Now previously the train is seated full by Haslemere however this morning it was Petersfield and by the time we had also called at our new stops at Guildford and Woking and headed to Waterloo, there was between 150 and 200 people stood within the train. It even made the Evening Standard.

1700 London Waterloo - Portsmouth Habrour : Left Waterloo at 1700, another great journey and it was not too packed. Timing was ok until Petersfield where we lost a couple of minutes, again waiting to come into Havant and again waiting outside Hilsea. We arrived at Fratton at 1835, 6 minutes late.