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David Hansen · March 27th 08, 06:40 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:53:37 -0700 (PDT) someone who may be
wrote this:-

There are 4 rails, all carry electrical currents at different potentials.

So just avoid all of them then?

That is good advice. The best way of doing this is to remain on the
platform.

I live near a tube track and have, over the years, seen thousands of
workmen cross the tracks (as well as a few drunk teenagers). They all
survived,

Not all of them do. Go to news.bbc.co.uk and type "girl
electrocuted" and "boy electrocuted" into the search box you will
read of many of those who did not.

You will have to look harder to find stories about staff who have
been killed, but it does happen.

so your statement that it is impossible to get near a track safely

Not a statement he made. What is untrue is your distortion of what
he did say.

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David Hansen, Edinburgh
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