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martin.coffee · July 5th 18, 03:35 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On 05/07/18 15:45, wrote:
On 05/07/2018 14:50, Jim Chisholm wrote:
On 05/07/2018 11:28, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:58:26 on Thu, 5 Jul
2018, Graeme Wall remarked:

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worseâ€¦

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44721415

I smell a rat.
Of course it could be a rat (probably fried)
&
I bet a lot of equipment cabinets are not designed to dissipate the
sort of heatÂ* we currently have. I remember building simple circuits
and seeing how tolerant they were to both low and high temperatures as
they were to be in a field.

I wonder how often failures like this occur in India due to heat?

We do have hot summers and cold winters -- perhaps not to the same
degree and length, respectively, as India and Russia, but nonetheless we
are hit with weather extremes.

Even if the equipment is designed for these temperatures it is being
stressed in a way that faults not normally apparat will emerge so it is
not surprising that that there are heat related problems.