"Terry Harper" wrote in message ...
"Richard J." wrote in message
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Clive Page wrote:

I couldn't help thinking that in London, with a similar technical
failure, we'd probably have been trapped for hours. As it was,
everyone used their common sense and we all got out with only a small
delay, and only a few grumbled complaints.

Mass unsupervised evacuation of passengers on to the track of a 3rd-rail
electrified railway doesn't sound like "common sense" to me. How did
people know the current wasn't about to come on again? Is the live rail
shielded?

Is it 3rd rail? The Moscow underground, for example, is overhead
electrified.

No it isn't , its 3rd rail like most of the east european metro systems
(that mostly all use the same type of russian built train just as an aside).
I believe its 850V DC and is broad gauge but I'm not 100% sure.

B2003