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‘Please Get My Dad Home On Time’ – 6-Year-Old Writes Touching Letter to Rail Firm

‘Please Get My Dad Home On Time’ – 6-Year-Old Writes Touching Letter to Rail Firm

A six-year-old girl has written to rail bosses begging them to get her dad home in time to tuck her into bed.

Mirror UK reports little Ellie Porter penned the note to chiefs at Southern after her beloved father Neil missed putting her into bed.

Mr Porter, a graphic designer from Uckfield, East Sussex, takes the train to east London each day to get to his work in Shoreditch, paying £4,000 a year for his commute. But disruptions, delays and cancellations between Uckfield and London Bridge mean he faces “major chaos” on his journeys, making him late home.

Young Ella also chastised Southern for “taking all of daddy’s money”, meaning she can’t go on a holiday to Disneyland.

In the letter, which Mr Porter posted on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, she wrote: “Dear Mr Railway Man, my daddy is always late home and I miss him very much because he always used to tuck me into bed, this makes me upset. Please get him home on time. Daddy says you take all his money, that is why I can’t go to Disney Land. I really want to go to Disney Land.”

She signs off: “Ella aged six.”

Tweeting his daughter’s letter, Mr Porter wrote: “Please share my daughter’s letter, I think Southern Rail UK should compensate my daughter for her time without her Dad. I pay £4,000pa, I accept the odd disruption. Major chaos surrounds every journey. It’s stressful.”

The letter appears to have melted the heart of at least one person at Southern.

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A tweet from the rail firm said: “Really sorry for the disruption caused to you. Genuinely has got me welling up. I’m sorry.”

A spokeswoman for Southern said: “We are sorry that Mr Porter has been delayed on his way home and that his daughter misses him. Trains to Victoria and London Bridge travel over the most congested part of the whole of Britain’s railway network and we are constantly pushing against the boundaries of what is physically possible on the infrastructure to provide as much capacity as possible to and from London. London Bridge station is being rebuilt with fewer platforms and tracks for our trains currently, and this has made train performance even more challenging. We and Network Rail are determined to improve the situation and have made some additional changes to the timetable today to help with this.”

Source: mirror.co.uk

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