Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 18/06/2014 13:31, ken wrote:

The headlines of the Evening Standard last night was "POLICE FAILED TO
STOP DEATH RAVE" and follows with a story about how a boy died from
drinking beer laced with ketamine after attending an illegal rave. The
police are under scrutiny for not attempting to stop the rave which
apparently started on Saturday night going on to early hours of Sunday
Morning. What the police did do was to tape out a crime scene at 08:15
on Sunday Morning outside East Croydon railway station which prevented
any trams or buses from moving. It didn't involve the railway service
but anyone disembarking from a train with the intention of continuing
journey by bus or tram would have been stuck.

The tram indicators were operating as normal, this destination x
minutes, that destination y minutes, and no indication that anything had
happened. I presume that must have been the same throughout the nework.

By about 11:15 the PIDs were showing things were in a mess. And at East
Croydon, the countless policemen, Tramlink staff and people having a
look to see what was happening made it pretty clear things were broken.

Yes I know it was obvious that things were broken. But it wouldn't have
been so obvious for someone waiting at, say, Sandilands. Do you happen
to know when the scene was untaped and buses and trams were alloed to
continue?

It wasn't superficially obvious why trams weren't running past the
scene. Surely a CR4000 can cope with some broken glass on the track, and
even so, the swept path could be swept - would there be "evidence" as
such on the tramway?