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Old June 1st 17, 10:44 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Crossrail 2 hits the buffers

On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 01:49:09 -0700 (PDT)
Paul Corfield wrote:
You seem to think that Network Rail had independence to just splash =C2=A37=
00m on reopening Waterloo. It didn't. The responsibility for the delay si=


The points to NR exist, the platforms were perfectly servicable until they
started to demolish part them (for whatever reason, another excuse to waste
more taxpayers money) and train information boards were already fitted so apart
from putting in some standard ticket gates what exactly needed to be done to
"reopen" these platforms and use them? Answer - absolutely **** all. It was
just incompetance and indifference all round.

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