TRAIN passengers face longer journeys than before World War One as the biggest time- table shake-up in years fell apart yesterday.
Commuters from Lewes, East Sussex, will now spend at least 68 minutes travelling 48 miles to London Victoria.
The Independent’s travel editor Simon Calder told the BBC: “The locals will tell you that they are actually three minutes slower than they were in 1912.
“I wasn’t around to check but I have seen the timetable.”
Lewes is among the worst-hit places by the changes, which saw four million trains rescheduled.
Operators say it will increase frequency and reliability but hundreds of services were cancelled yesterday.
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Thameslink, which has been boasting about its new services for months, blamed an “operational incident”.
But one passenger tweeted: “Why not just admit you don’t have enough drivers?”
Commuters were warned to expect more problems today.
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