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Old February 18th 10, 10:39 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Two hour Central line shut down during evening rush hour

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:57:16 +0000
David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 02:19:42PM -0800, Mizter T wrote:

Some kind of signalling problem near Liverpool Street area nuked the
service at around 5.30pm. The above story says the whole line was out
of action - a later radio travel report I heard suggested that the
line wasn't running between White City and Leytonstone, maybe the
situation changed over time though. Regardless, most definitely not
the sort of thing that should be happening.


No trains at all at White City at 1815, and hordes of people milling
about not knowing what to do. The poor dears obviously didn't think to
wander out of the station and catch a bus.


If you "wander out" of a station LU now kindly stitch you for the full fare
to that zone on PAYG oyster even if its obvious going by times that you
couldn't have been anywhere.

Btw , have you ever caught a bus in the evening rush hour when the tube is
down? You'd be quicker walking.

B2003