Commuters travelling home from a busy day's work in the city were shocked and bewildered to find that the big signs that usually display the name of the station they're arriving at had been painted over!

"we just didn't know where we were," complained Janet Karendotir, a website designer attempting to travel home Monday night. "With the station names whitewashed over we could have been anywhere at all! I wanted to get to Bromley South station to visit a friend but when the train drew in at the first station down the line there was no way of knowing where I was."

"I tried counting the stops from memory," said a flustered looking man who had been sitting next to Janet, "but I got absorbed in the music on my Walkman and lost count somewhere close to Rochester."

Confusion reigned and passengers were seen to be sticking their heads out of train doors and windows and shouting "what station is this?" to the passengers standing on the platforms as they arrived at each new station.

Frustrated Chartered Accountant Gareth Kingman told us "The thing that bugged me was that the driver of the train didn't even bother announcing where we were over the tannoy system. It wasn't until we reached Gillingham that I recognised a small sandwich bar on the platform and realised I should have got off two stations before".

The transport police were receiving disturbing reports late yesterday evening that this may have been yet another attack by the Blind Liberation Organisation (B.L.O.) who are also thought to be behind an attack on a supermarket in north-west London late last year. Many Railtrack staff from the twenty main stations on the London to Dover line reported physical attacks by masked cane wielders and Guide Dog Owners. Staff were subdued as small gangs of blind people located and painted out station names, making it difficult for sighted passengers to know where they were. Some of the smaller more self contained stations were attacked by blind men in NBC chemical suits spraying sleeping gas and it wasn't until the staff regained consciousness after rush hour that they saw the information devastation.

One Railtrack worker at Canterbury East station said "This is just some kind of callous display of wanton bitterness. These people can't see where they are and don't want anyone else to know either. It's pathetic and dangerous."