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Thomas Crame · January 28th 04, 07:09 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Andy Coleman) wrote in message . com...
Hi,

I'm in North London and we do not seem to have much snow here,
apparently there are problems on the central and metropolitan lines.
So whats the snow like were these trains are going?

A couple of flakes probably blew across the line which this being britain
of course means that trains immediately break down, points freeze, rails
break and so forth. God help this country if we ever really get severe weather
like they have in scandinavia or central & eastern europe. God knows what we'd
do.

B2003

If we were in scandinavia all the point heaters would work, not
checked the morning after a snowfall, and there would be plenty of
de-icing trains running with de-icing fluid (instead of water as on
the metropolitan line last night).

I was in Stockholm before xmas; it snowed for around 24 hours. All the
point heaters were working and there were no problems at all.