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Well if it wasn't in the Evening Standard or on the BBC or on Usenet
then it didn't happen. I will inform my co-worker that you think he is
a liar. Why do you who wasn't there presume to know more than my
co-worker who had just got off the train.

Because many people on this group have access to far more detailed
information about the operational railway. For example, several posters work
on the national network and have access to internal systems or direct
contacts with major station managers, employees and/or depot staff in the
areas concerned and have reported no incident of this nature.

There may well have been a small fire, possibly caused by combustible
rubbish discarded by idle passengers who couldn't be bothered to use the
litter bins provided on the trains or elsewhere or to take their litter away
with them . To imply that there was a major conflagration is nonsense, the
internal reporting requirements of such an event, together with systems for
delay attribution etc. would be require an incident of that magnitude to be
highlighted. Traction current in the affected area would require to be
isolated (which would be reported) whilst an investigation took place. The
fact that there is no trace of this event does not imply that nothing
occurred, merely that the seriousness of it was grossly exaggerated.