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Old December 12th 17, 11:26 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Snow on the line

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:45:10 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
wrote:
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:24:05 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
Mike Bristow wrote:
In article ,
wrote:
I'd lay a lot of money on the ****wits not listening to the weather

forecast
and not spraying deicer on the power rails or sending up a train with any
kind of brush on it. Then next morning, "Oooo, theres snow on the rails,
train
won't move! Quick, lets blame the power supply and make it sound like its
someone elses fault!"

So how would you describe a problem where the snow/ice prevents the power
from getting from the rail to train?


I don't think that was the problem. I think it was genuinely a power supply
problem, as it also affected the Piccadilly line Uxbridge branch. Later,
when the Met line was running again, the Amersham branch continued to be
affected, and that might have been more to do with snow/ice on the running
and conductor rails.


A power supply problem which affected different lines on parts of the

network
seperated by 20 miles. Hmm, lets think about the likelyhood of that for a
second vs the didn't-bother-to-clear-snow-from-the-rails scenario...


Which "different lines on parts of the network seperated (sic) by 20
miles"?


Umm, amersham and cockfosters? Actually make that 25 miles.