In message , dvr
writes
When will commuters shut their gobs and be grateful.

Well personally I would like to shake the hand of National Rail and
thank him for high fares, constant delays and ****ty dirty trains to
travel in.
And there a box of chocolates on my way to him to show him my
appreciation for the bank holiday train service.
I think I speak for every commuter in SE England and possibly the
country when I say we have the best rail system in the world and every
day I praise god for allowing me to live in a country which has this
service.
--
CJG

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That's odd...
My car performs as normal, despite the power cuts apparently
prevalent in the SE.
Even the headlights work.

Useful when crossing junctions where the traffic lights are out, or do
you just power through and trust to God?

Malfunctioning traffic lights are an everyday occurrence - and present no
problem to those with common sense.

AAMOF, sometimes/often [take your pick], dependding on location, the traffic
flows *better* when the lights are out.

"JNugent" wrote in message
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wrote:

writes

That's odd...
My car performs as normal, despite the power cuts apparently
prevalent in the SE.
Even the headlights work.

Useful when crossing junctions where the traffic lights are out, or do
you just power through and trust to God?

Malfunctioning traffic lights are an everyday occurrence - and present no
problem to those with common sense.

Treat the junction as a mini roundabout if the lights are out. Works a
treat - provided everyone else does!

wrote:

"JNugent" wrote:

wrote:

writes

That's odd...
My car performs as normal, despite the power cuts apparently
prevalent in the SE.
Even the headlights work.

Useful when crossing junctions where the traffic lights are out, or
do you just power through and trust to God?

Malfunctioning traffic lights are an everyday occurrence - and
present no problem to those with common sense.

Treat the junction as a mini roundabout if the lights are out. Works
a treat - provided everyone else does!

Absolutely.

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There has been a power cut, affecting the Tube and trains
BBC News Reports:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3189755.stm

Well, for some reason, the BBC are treating this (as I write) as their *top
national* news story, whereas Blair's hand in the death of Dr Kelly is
relegated to "other items in the news" status.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 04:00:20 +0100, Road Runner
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Depresion wrote:

Why isn't this plastered across all the US news channels the way there power cut
was across all of ours?

A 34 minute power failure affecting 10m people is far less serious
than an 8 hour power failure affecting 50m people.

Let's not kid ourselves - if those times and numbers had been
reversed, _we_ would still have heard of the events in the US, but
most Americans would be blissly unaware of what happened here. Yanks
don't do "foreign," remember.
--
Nick Cooper

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On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:40:15 +0100, Joe Patrick wrote:

There has been a power cut, affecting the Tube and trains BBC News
Reports:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3189755.stm

This one made me laugh

http://thisislondon.co.uk/news/artic...ing%20Standard

Quoting one affected passenger:

"I am so angry and frustrated," he said. "But this is what you come to
expect from the Tube. I am especially fed up with how the slightest thing
goes wrong and then everything falls completely apart. The other thing we
are rarely offered is alternative ways of getting home. I will be asking
for compensation."

Slightest thing? That's a good one! What would it take for him to accept
something as actually not being the railways' fault? Charing X being nuked
perhaps... Or perhaps all the railway staff should have plugged their
bicycle dynamos into the juicer and pedalled their hearts out...

Someone should be getting their balls on the line for yesterday, but it's
not the railways as far as I can see.

Cheers

Timbo

"Richard" wrote in message
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:27:11 +0000 (UTC), "Peter Masson"
wrote:
[...]
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'.

Connex are based on the South Bank, so I guess they would have been in the
dark for a while as well...

Mark

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:14:09 +0100 someone who may be Roland Perry
wrote this:-

In article , 3518+3227
writes
Greenwich power station is retained as a backup supply, normally unused.

Including during the power cut today, perhaps?

That's one of a number of questions which they will have to answer.
I see that journalists were beginning to ask this question this
morning.


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There has been a power cut, affecting the Tube and trains BBC News
Reports:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3189755.stm

I thought that the tube had emergency lights (well the signs on the 1992
stock say so!)
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