Here's a conspiracy theory for you...

The District was fine for several months then all of a sudden we have
had one or more signal failures almost every day for the past
fortnight. Are the signal failures real or are some people at the tube
/ PPP contrators trying to make transport more of an election issue in
order to get more money?

CL

"Chris!" wrote in message
ups.com...
Here's a conspiracy theory for you...

The District was fine for several months then all of a sudden we have
had one or more signal failures almost every day for the past
fortnight. Are the signal failures real or are some people at the tube
/ PPP contrators trying to make transport more of an election issue in
order to get more money?

CL


Apparently the signals on the Wimbledon branch are prone to failure whenever
it rains! But they are the responsibility of Network Rail.

I think you're reading far more into things, I blame simple cockup over
conspiracy, after all it is MetroMess, and to think that it is a
conspiracy would imply that they have an IQ above a house fly!

Orienteer wrote:
"Chris!" wrote in message
ups.com...

Here's a conspiracy theory for you...

The District was fine for several months then all of a sudden we have
had one or more signal failures almost every day for the past
fortnight. Are the signal failures real or are some people at the tube
/ PPP contrators trying to make transport more of an election issue in
order to get more money?

CL



Apparently the signals on the Wimbledon branch are prone to failure whenever
it rains! But they are the responsibility of Network Rail.

Orienteer wrote:


Apparently the signals on the Wimbledon branch are prone to failure whenever
it rains! But they are the responsibility of Network Rail.



I infrequently catch tubes at Wimbledon Park and it's been "alright"
(for fairly respectable values of alright) for the last few weeks. This
morning, after the first decent rainfall for a while and, bosh, signal
problems.

There could be something in your "apparently" ...

Orienteer wrote:
Apparently the signals on the Wimbledon branch are prone to failure
whenever
it rains! But they are the responsibility of Network Rail.

But over the last couple of weeks there have been signal failures and
service suspensions on different parts of the line (Turnham Green,
Wimbledon Park, somewhere near Barking, etc.)