"Tim Southerwood" wrote in message
om...

At least, by all accounts, there was some fairly rapid evacuation of
parts of the tube this time, instead of leaving the poor sods to stew
in the tunnels.

So quick that it appears that when power was available again (the grid
outage lasted about 40 minutes) passengers were being evacuated from trains
stranded in tunnels, so traction power could not be restored.

As was to be expected, though, a collapse of the service for a reason
outside the control of the railways was accompanied by a collapse of
information. The Connex website even managed to proclaim 'no major
problems'.

Peter