Tom Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Stephen Farrow wrote:

d wrote:
"John Rowland" wrote in
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Actually, it's best if all main lines passed through London, and all
lines interchanged with each other and with all tube lines, but not
too many lines interchanging at the same station. That way a
terrorist strike on a single station causes minimal disruption. A
single London Central station has no benefits and huge disbenefits.

Planning rail routes and services around terrorism? Does it really
happen that frequently?

*Attacks* don't happen that frequently. There have been periods where
disruption due to phoned-in (fake) bomb threats happened on a very,
*very* regular basis.

Phoning in fake bomb threats for multiple stations doesn't seem much
harder than phoning in for one.

It isn't, and that certainly used to happen as well - but the fact
remains that funnelling all routes through a single station makes
causing disruption easier.

--

Stephen

Fire bad. Tree pretty.