Yesterday I had my worst ever journey from london to Winchester. Departure time from London was 17:00 with arrival in Winchester scheduled as 18:45 The time allowed is not generous but I usually make it before 19:00 At 18:30 I rang the depot in Winchester to speak to the driver who would be bringing the shuttle bus (to take the Southampton and Portsmouth passengers while the original bus continues on to Bournemouth) to the car park which is both the Winchester stop and our meeting point. “No need to go round to the car prk yet” I told him. “Where are you?” he asked. Let me put it like this I said “I can see the Hammersmith flyover but haven’t yet got there” I’m not sure how far Hammersmith is from Victoria but I’d guess at 4 miles and I’d been on the road for an hour and a half. I later found out that the problem was due to a broken down lorry near Junction 1 on the M4 which eventually built up a solid queue of traffic back as far as Hyde Park Corner. I got into Winchester one and a half hours late.