Thread: BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East
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Old August 29th 03, 02:48 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway,uk.transport
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Default BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:03:37 +0100, Tim Southerwood wrote:

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:40:15 +0100, Joe Patrick wrote:

There has been a power cut, affecting the Tube and trains BBC News
Reports:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3189755.stm

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Someone should be getting their balls on the line for yesterday, but it's
not the railways as far as I can see.

Why? You and everyone are now paying the price for the privatisation of the
electricity supply industry, as well as the railways, and everything else
that previous governments refused to invest in properly. The ESI was built
up with a tremendous amount of fat in the system, but all of that was taken
out in the quest for profit and fat dividend payouts.
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