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Old August 9th 11, 06:19 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Neil Williams Neil Williams is offline
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Default why are the new Victoria and trains so slow?

On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 13:46:11 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:
That's quite interesting. I've been at a couple of National Rail
stations (one SWT, one FCC) where the power had failed to the

station
itself, but remained in place for the trains. Neither had

escalators.

Unlike NR, LUL once had dedicated generating capacity, so it kind-of
makes sense.

Neil

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