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Old August 29th 03, 10:21 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 23:09:54 +0100, Bob Wood wrote:

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A system transformer failure ay Hurst in Kent, followed some 7
seconds later by a fault on a 275kv underground cable between their
New Cross and Wimbledon substations.


Where exactly is Hurst in Kent?



Staplehurst??


I was quoting National Grid's press release. Some of their substations do
use odd names though, not always directly related to geographic places.