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Old January 19th 08, 06:13 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Edward Cowling London UK Edward Cowling London UK is offline
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Default Victoria Line early closures

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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:48:17 +0000, Edward Cowling London UK wrote:

Hi fellow brother of the damned, I do the same awful route :-) I've
lost track of the times I've started to move towards the doors, only to
have the train stop dead and chuck me about. I don't get this on the
Piccadilly line.

Plus the trains don't wait at the platform like the human driven trains
do if there is a bad morning with the trains up ahead. They just stop in
the bloody tunnel.

All in all give me a human being at the wheel any day.


It's still a human being that presses the buttons to close the doors
and start the train moving.


That's like calling the guy in the space capsule a pilot :-)

Say what you like, but the trains always felt safer and seemed to run
better when they had a driver and a guard.

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Edward Cowling "Must go - Got to rub lard on the Cat's boil !"