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Old June 18th 06, 10:55 AM posted to uk.transport.london
[email protected] boltar2003@yahoo.co.uk is offline
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"Paul Weaver" wrote:
wrote:
The power failure you referred to was probably when the current was
discharged to allow the evacuation of the train(s) stalled in the
tunnel.


Why couldn't the train edge forward and push the failed train out of
the way, or move the train behind the stuck train backwards and reverse
the stuck train back to Liverpool Street?


They had this problem a year or so back when a train stalled at bank
but (apparently) because of the curvature or the line there it couldn't be
coupled to by a following train and pushed out the way. So instead of
walking people out through the tunnels the morons in charge let hundreds
of people sweat it out for hours which let to dozens suffering from
heat exhaustion. I didn't see the news but it looks like something
similar though not quite as bad happened this time. You'd think that LU
would have a sensible procedure that they'd bring in to action quickly
for this sort of eventuality by now but then I suppose I'm not thinking
like someone in a public sector buck passing job.

B2003