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Thunderbug[_2_] · June 1st 08, 01:26 AM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:
When?

I know that it is on the Circle Line, but is there a specific time that it
kicks off?

Well it certainly kicked off at Kings Cross - waiting on the westbound
Met (&Cirlce etc) platform at about 22.40 there was a Circle line with
plenty of drunken idiots onboard.

In what they'd probably call a party atmosphere but what a single woman
would call a very uncomfortable one, the 'revellers' as the BBC calls
them used sticks to hit the CCTV cameras to point away from the crowds,
but I am tall enough to reach the cameras – so I moved one back.

They managed to break enough off the train that it first got taken out
of service, but when the staff were too disorganised to shove people
off, they evacuated the station. I hope I'm never at Kings Cross when
it actually needs to be evacuated in a genuine emergency because that
was hardly executed well either: closing shutters at street level
doesn't help people leave the station!

With little prospect of getting on any buses I walked down Euston Road
but each station as far as Baker St was also closed. I was fortunate
enough to get to Marylebone for the last Chiltern train and managed to
get a bus home from Harrow but I don't know what everyone else would've
done.

If it was supposed to be a protest to claim that drinking didn’t need
banning from the tube, I think they’ve just shot themselves in both feet
with quite a lot of bullets indeed.