In message , Tom Robinson
writes

"Person taken ill" on the Bak last night.

This usually means someone fell onto the live rails and had to be
scraped off before they could start the trains again.

No, that would be a person under a train. Person taken ill is usually
some drunk in a comatose state.
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Steve Fitzgerald has now left the building.
You will find him in London's Docklands, E16, UK
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