Dr. Sunil wrote on 06 July 2010 14:48:31 ...
What happened to the District Line east of Plaistow? I heard there was
a fire at Barking on Friday, but still disrupted today?

See press release at
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/medi...tre/16124.aspx

"The fire destroyed dozens of 50 year old cables affecting signals and
traction on District line and Hammersmith & City line services east of
Whitechapel. The heat was so intense that cables and equipment melted.
Specialist London Undergound (LU) in-house engineers were called in to
hand trace the routes and splice in hundreds of metres of new cabling."

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Richard J.
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