On Jan 18, 12:08*pm, Paul wrote:
From the Tfl website at lunchtime today:-

Northern Line

Minor delays are occurring between Camden Town and Kennington via
Charing Cross due to a fox on the track at Warren Street.

How could a fox get on to the sub surface section of the track? Any
more unusual excuses for delays?

My favourite excuse for a delay was in the early hours of New Year's
Day 2007 at Finsbury Park.
"Piccadilly Line services are currently suspended eastbound due to a
fight in progress at Caledonian Road. The police are in attendance,
and once they're satisfied that it's reached its conclusion, services
will resume, but for now services are suspended and we hope you
realise that this fight is beyond our control."

martin wrote:

"Piccadilly Line services are currently suspended eastbound due to a
fight in progress at Caledonian Road. The police are in attendance,
and once they're satisfied that it's reached its conclusion, services
will resume, but for now services are suspended and we hope you
realise that this fight is beyond our control."

Was that pre-recorded? ;-)

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"Paul" wrote in message
...
From the Tfl website at lunchtime today:-


Northern Line

Minor delays are occurring between Camden Town and Kennington via
Charing Cross due to a fox on the track at Warren Street.

How could a fox get on to the sub surface section of the track?

Wouldn't a tube line look just like a bolt hole to a fox? And there are
surface sections of the Northern Line which looked verdant, green and nice
foxy country to me.



Any
more unusual excuses for delays?

With several days around 42C down here, reminds me that not that long ago,
train services in Perth were often disrupted in summer due to "twisted" or
"distorted" rails. A fellow vollie at a community care organisation here
suffers asthma (he's 70). The heat doesn't treat him kindly at all. His
brother in Leeds joked about swapping weather.

Would be happy to send some excess warmth up your way, if only we had the
technology.

DW downunder

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:28:17 +0800
"DW downunder" noname wrote:
With several days around 42C down here, reminds me that not that long ago,
train services in Perth were often disrupted in summer due to "twisted" or
"distorted" rails. A fellow vollie at a community care organisation here
suffers asthma (he's 70). The heat doesn't treat him kindly at all. His
brother in Leeds joked about swapping weather.

Don't people consider the heat before they emigrate to australia?

B2003

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:34:18 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:28:17 +0800
"DW downunder" noname wrote:
With several days around 42C down here, reminds me that not that long ago,
train services in Perth were often disrupted in summer due to "twisted" or
"distorted" rails. A fellow vollie at a community care organisation here
suffers asthma (he's 70). The heat doesn't treat him kindly at all. His
brother in Leeds joked about swapping weather.

Don't people consider the heat before they emigrate to australia?


They probably make a snap judgment to emigrate having been driven
around the bend by chronic moaners like you!

You are the very definition of a "Whinging Pom". ;-)

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:36:57 +0000
Bruce wrote:
They probably make a snap judgment to emigrate having been driven
around the bend by chronic moaners like you!

You are the very definition of a "Whinging Pom". ;-)

Whinging is complaining about stuff you just don't happen to like. Thats
different to complaining about a ****ty service you pay through the nose
for. I doubt many aussies would put up with the same kind of **** train
service we get in this country.

B2003

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:55:35 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:36:57 +0000
Bruce wrote:
They probably make a snap judgment to emigrate having been driven
around the bend by chronic moaners like you!

You are the very definition of a "Whinging Pom". ;-)

Whinging is complaining about stuff you just don't happen to like. Thats
different to complaining about a ****ty service you pay through the nose
for. I doubt many aussies would put up with the same kind of **** train
service we get in this country.


If London is so unattractive to Australians ...

.... why are so many of them over here?

On 2010-01-18, d wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:36:57 +0000
Bruce wrote:
They probably make a snap judgment to emigrate having been driven
around the bend by chronic moaners like you!

You are the very definition of a "Whinging Pom". ;-)

Whinging is complaining about stuff you just don't happen to like. Thats
different to complaining about a ****ty service you pay through the nose
for. I doubt many aussies would put up with the same kind of **** train
service we get in this country.

B2003


It's not what you complain about, it's how you do it (and to whom).

As for bad train services, I have lived, worked, and commuted in and
near both Sydney and London and, if you take a long-term view, there's
not much difference in the number of things that go wrong or in the
technical and human causes of them. And a Australian commuter has no
more power to get problems sorted out than you do.

Eric

d wrote on 18 January 2010 16:55:35 ...
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:36:57 +0000
Bruce wrote:
They probably make a snap judgment to emigrate having been driven
around the bend by chronic moaners like you!

You are the very definition of a "Whinging Pom". ;-)

Whinging is complaining about stuff you just don't happen to like. Thats
different to complaining about a ****ty service you pay through the nose
for. I doubt many aussies would put up with the same kind of **** train
service we get in this country.

Some comments on the London Tube on a TripAdvisor thread last month:
"The most efficient transport system I've had anything to do with"
"not one delay, not one closure ever.........so I am in awe of the tube !"

- both from Aussies!

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Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

Paul wrote:

Minor delays are occurring between Camden Town and Kennington via
Charing Cross due to a fox on the track at Warren Street.

Oh, for fox sake!
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Brian
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