A long-suffering commuter has come up with an internet craze to pass the time waiting for late or cancelled trains at South West Train stations.
Philippa Mathers, 31, from Hampton Wick, started tweeting adapted song lyrics in protest.
She said: “Every day there is another problem. I was bored of moaning about it on my own."
The #swtrainssongs craze gets passengers adding train themes to popular song lyrics.
Some of the tweets include: ‘Weybridge over troubled water’, ‘Just another manic Sunbury’ and ‘Oxshott the Sheriff’.
But not everyone enjoyed the game.
DriverPotter tweeted: The Famous Mary Poppins ditty "Super-Whinging-Pugilistic-Self-Important-Punters”
To join in, search #swtrainssongs on Twitter.
The #swtrainssongs craze is the latest in a line of twitter projects Ms Mathers, head of sales at Seven Publishing, has come up with to keep commuters entertained.
Other mini-projects include a Christmas song version, and a ‘Friday Shoes’ tweet, in which people tweeted pictures of interesting shoes they spotted during commutes.
South West Trains was criticised by the Office of Rail Regulation in February, for failing to deal with snow and rain over Christmas.
Tweets
@Tubewisdom I'm on the right track, baby, I was Bournemouth this way #ladygaga Surely double points for getting 'track' in as well?
Dan @frequentlyrare The Kingston of Wishful Thinking by Go West Byfleet
Renbenbear @renbenbear Don't Stand So Close To Me
Stef Morley @stefaniemorley 'Oxshott the Sheriff'? 'Get Richmond, or Die Trying'? #swtrainssongs
Clive Andrews @CliveAndrews Or 'Jesus of Surbiton'?
Dan @frequentlyrare You say it best when you say nothing at Vauxhall #swtrainssongs
Tubewisdom @Tubewisdom all Sandown, Sandown...Sandown next to me...
David Popey @popeyworld Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, [Hampton] Court in the middle with you
ben @seawolf 13h Purple Raynes (Park)
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