What happened to the District Line east of Plaistow? I heard there was
a fire at Barking on Friday, but still disrupted today?

"Dr. Sunil" wrote in message
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What happened to the District Line east of Plaistow? I heard there was
a fire at Barking on Friday, but still disrupted today?

A major amount of line side cabling completely burnt out affecting traction
supplies, signalling and telecoms. Expected to take 5 or 6 days to rewire
and test apparently, so possibly still out of action until Thursday...

Paul S

Dr. Sunil wrote on 06 July 2010 14:48:31 ...
What happened to the District Line east of Plaistow? I heard there was
a fire at Barking on Friday, but still disrupted today?

See press release at
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/medi...tre/16124.aspx

"The fire destroyed dozens of 50 year old cables affecting signals and
traction on District line and Hammersmith & City line services east of
Whitechapel. The heat was so intense that cables and equipment melted.
Specialist London Undergound (LU) in-house engineers were called in to
hand trace the routes and splice in hundreds of metres of new cabling."

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On Jul 6, 3:23*pm, "Richard J." wrote:
Dr. Sunil wrote on 06 July 2010 14:48:31 ...

What happened to the District Line east of Plaistow? I heard there was
a fire at Barking on Friday, but still disrupted today?

See press release athttp://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/16124.aspx

"The fire destroyed dozens of 50 year old cables affecting signals and
traction on District line and Hammersmith & City line services east of
Whitechapel. *The heat was so intense that cables and equipment melted.
Specialist London Undergound (LU) in-house engineers were called in to
hand trace the routes and splice in hundreds of metres of new cabling."

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Richard J.
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All filmed in glorious technicolour

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...king+fire&aq=f

On Jul 6, 3:23*pm, "Richard J." wrote:
Dr. Sunil wrote on 06 July 2010 14:48:31 ...

What happened to the District Line east of Plaistow? I heard there was
a fire at Barking on Friday, but still disrupted today?

See press release athttp://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/16124.aspx

"The fire destroyed dozens of 50 year old cables affecting signals and
traction on District line and Hammersmith & City line services east of
Whitechapel. *The heat was so intense that cables and equipment melted.
Specialist London Undergound (LU) in-house engineers were called in to
hand trace the routes and splice in hundreds of metres of new cabling."

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

All filmed in glorious technicolour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8T_7tx-NWw

On 6 July, 15:23, "Richard J." wrote:
Dr. Sunil wrote on 06 July 2010 14:48:31 ...

What happened to the District Line east of Plaistow? I heard there was
a fire at Barking on Friday, but still disrupted today?

See press release athttp://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/16124.aspx

"The fire destroyed dozens of 50 year old cables affecting signals and
traction on District line and Hammersmith & City line services east of
Whitechapel. *The heat was so intense that cables and equipment melted.
Specialist London Undergound (LU) in-house engineers were called in to
hand trace the routes and splice in hundreds of metres of new cabling."

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

Assuming that it happened at a time of day when most trains were out,
where are they parking the ones that can't get to Upminster, can they
walk them through somehow?

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, MIG
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Assuming that it happened at a time of day when most trains were out,
where are they parking the ones that can't get to Upminster, can they
walk them through somehow?

They had 4 D stock trains in Northfields depot for the last few days but
a couple disappeared today. I gather some C stock was stabled at
Neasden.
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