"TheOneKEA" wrote in message
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Gunnar Thöle wrote in message
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Boltar schrieb:
You have to wonder what would (does?) happen if some of the newspaper
& tissues
etc that people drop around the system were to get lodged in some hot
traction
equipment. I imagine this could be quite likely to happen in a tunnel
section.
Something similar happened on the Hamburg S-Bahn system last autumn,
debris left in tunnels caught fire. The result was a ten-day block of
the relevant tunnel, 3 stations and approx. 4 km of tunnel where every
surface was covered with corrosive residues making it necessary to clean
the entire tunnel, a burnt-out power substation, destroyed signalling,
power, phone and data cables and a half-frequency train service for the
following 6 weeks.

GASP! That's pretty large-scale!

If that happened on TfL two years ago we'd STILL be waiting for
resumption of services...although I thought the cleaning ladies who
travel through the LUL network at night removed debris anyway, so it's
not likely to happen, correct?

Errrr, we got rid of the "fluffers" donkey's years ago, replaced 'em with a
giant track-borne hoover. Which I belive broke down about 2 years ago, ain't
been fixed yet. Languishing in NFDT last time I looked...
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Cheers, Steve.
If The Good Lord had meant for us to be fiscally prudent, He would not have
given us the platinum credit card...
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