1 November 2011

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THE Town Council has written to Network Rail to complain that East Grinstead commuters were left stranded without notice after essential weekend maintenance work over-ran into Monday, 24 October.

Hundreds of travellers were left with the choice of working from home, or taking a bus journey to Hurst Green after unfinished weekend work on the track left trains unable to enter the town station.

“We understand that these things happen,” said Town Clerk Julie Holden, “but as far as we have been able to establish, no-one knew about the closure until they arrived at East Grinstead station hoping to travel to work on Monday morning.

“Had we been informed about the problems earlier we could have liaised with the town radio station, and put an alert on our website, which would have given travellers more time to make alternative plans.

“We weren’t told, so there was nothing we could do about it and the result was chaos.”