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*Date:* Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:35:30 -0700 (PDT)

All trains were been cancelled in and out of Paddington for the best
part of this afternoon. Trains only started going through H&H about
an
hour ago (18,00). We arrived at H&H just now and they were still
scrubbing the surface and surrounds of platform 3. All was roped off
there. The smell was over-powering. No further details. We're
getting
about one suicide every three weeks on this line - usually at
Southall
and now H&H. Appalling. And nothing seems to be getting done about
this situation.

And of course thousands of passengers for Heathrow missed their
flights, with consequent missed flight connections, hotel
reservations
and appointments. HCon and HEX (aka BAA) failed to provide
alternative
transportation.

And there did not seem to be any contingency plans at Paddington
despite this being a regular occurrence.

CJB.

There's a news report from 2007 he
http://tinyurl.com/ycy8lx9
apparently, in 2006, one third of all one-unders on NR were in this area.

Roger