Why is the train late?

It used to be that you stood at the train station and hoped your train would show up. Actually, that is still the case today...
However, something has changed. Before if your train was delayed or cancelled, the reasons were a mystery. Now they like to tell you why your train is late. I kind of like that. It makes it a bit easier to stand there on the platform a bit longer when you realise that there is a fallen tree on the tracks. I mean, you don't exactly want your train running into a tree, do you? But some of the other reasons are annoying, some are tragic and some are on the verge of being funny. "Signal failure" is a favourite excuse. That falls under the "annoying" classification. I mean there is signal failure all the time! Hasn't anybody thought of buying better signals? Sometimes you hear things you didn't really want to know. I can understand that a train has to be delayed if someone fell/jumped under a train, but suddenly you feel this weird sense of sorrow, for someone you never knew. In fact, maybe you know their dead before their family knows. It's all a bit weird.
Finally my favourite "on the verge of being funny" excuse is the following. "Ladies and Gentleman we apologise to the delay to your service, we are waiting for the driver to turn up". I guess it's logical, but before they started given reasons for trains being late, I never imagined that the train driver being late for work would be one of them. I think I have heard that excuse twice in the last two months. Imagine going in to your boss and saying "sorry I'm late for work but the train driver was late for work....". Maybe the train driver was late for work because his bus driver was late for work? You would have to explain that the bus driver driving your train driver was late for work........
I didn't realise being a train driver was such a big responsbility. If you are late for work, you make 800 people late for work.
Yesterday was back to the old classic. Snow. I mean we have been expecting snow for a week now, they knew when it would come and how much. But anyhow the railway company seemed very surprised. So how much fell? 2 feet overnight like we once had in Boston? One foot that we often had in Sweden? No, it was much worse. It was a catastrophic 2 inches.......