On 6 July, 15:23, "Richard J." wrote:
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 athttp://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/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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Assuming that it happened at a time of day when most trains were out,
where are they parking the ones that can't get to Upminster, can they
walk them through somehow?