BELEAGUERED commuters are telling their tales of train woe with a poster campaign.

Brad Rees took inspiration from Southern adverts which profile train staff. Instead he featured his own story of commuting hell with a picture and the phrase Southern Fail.

The idea attracted attention from scores of other suffering passengers who are using the template with the hashtag #MySouthernStory to share their experience and spread the word online.

The 42-year-old, who lives in Durrington with his family and works in IT in London, said he wanted to draw attention to the human impact of the crisis on passengers.

He said: "I saw the posters that Southern publish on their trains which promote their staff. Their aim is to focus on the human element of the job. This is fair enough and I really feel for the Southern frontline staff at this difficult time.

"My wife used to work in Brighton but the unreliability of the coastal service meant she consistently couldn't get away from work in time to pick our son up from school so had to quit that job. The strike schedule means, if I travelled to work I'd only be in the office for six hours and fight with dangerous overcrowding to do so - my season ticket costs more than £5,000 per year and yet I'm faced with a choice on these days of not going in or paying London hotel prices to not see my family and stay over."