On Thu, 29 May 2008 12:35:41 +0100, Roland Perry
mangled uncounted electrons thus:

In message , at 10:07:32
on Thu, 29 May 2008, Richard J. remarked:
'The contractors were jacking up the bridge. The jack collapsed and

And this was happening while trains were running underneath ?!?!?!

Indeed. I have no doubt that HSE will have some fairly robust
views on this, once the investigation has finished - and they
tend not to take prisoners...

The London Lite was speculating this evening, in the rather vague
way that free papers tend to when they don't have any real facts,
that Network Rail allowed the work to be carried out over live
tracks because they were unwilling to close LST again due to the
criticism over the closures that have already taken place on
every (so far!) Bank Holiday this year.

Not mind you that I put any faith in what LL says about anything
(except their quite true claim that the ink doesn't come off on
your hands ^_^ ) !

debris from the supports

Which some reports are calling "scaffolding", perhaps.

for the bridge fell onto the tracks. We are investigating
the incident,' he said."

How much damage was done to the OHLE? There must have been
*some*, surely?

Martin D. Pay
Who was evicted from my service from Chelmsford at Stratford this
morning. Fortunately the DLR came to my rescue!