"Jack Taylor" wrote in message k...
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Male person, scene treated as a crime scene by BTP and body not
recovered until 1300 approx. The lack of a contingency plan by SCT for
the main lines being closed during the peaks meant services ran up to
180 mins late!

Which once again highlights how bloody disgraceful it is that nowadays the
police are permitted to cause disruption on such a scale to the general
public. Perhaps they should be forced to compensate all of those caught up
in their incompetence (as everyone else seems to be expected to these
days) - that might focus their minds to get the job done more quickly.
Bearing in mind that this incident allegedly occurred at around 01:00 the
railway should have been cleared and open for operation by 05:00 at the
latest.

On the day in question there were many rumours doing the rounds
including that the person was a 14yr old "graffiti artist". Any more
news on the truth yet ?
I have to say that I was amazed how the Sth central service was still
doing at 13.00 when I went to work some 12 hours after the initial
incident. Just to show how bad:

13:02 Victoria to Portsmouth CANCELLED AT VICTORIA
13:03 Victoria to Dorking CANCELLED AT EPSOM 36" Late
13:05 Victoria to Sutton CANCELLED AT VICTORIA
13:06 Victoria to Brighton CANCELLED AT VICTORIA
13:07 Victoria to West Croydon CANCELLED AT VICTORIA
13:11 Victoria to London Bridge CANCELLED AT VICTORIA
13:15 Victoria to Caterham CANCELLED AT VICTORIA
13:17 Victoria to Southampton CANCELLED AT VICTORIA
13:20 Victoria to Epsom CANCELLED AT VICTORIA
13:22 Victoria to London Bridge arrived 50" late having started CJN
13:23 Victoria to East Grinstead CANCELLED AT VICTORIA
13:25 Victoria to Epsom Downs CANCELLED AT VICTORIA
13:32 Victoria to Chichester CANCELLED AT VICTORIA
13:33 Victoria to Horsham Arrived 20" late having started CJN
13:35 Victoria to Sutton CANCELLED AT VICTORIA
13:36 Victoria to Brighton Ran E Croydon to Brighton only
13:37 Victoria to West Croydon Ran RIGHT TIME Claphm to WC !
13:41 Victoria to London Bridge Ran 6" late
13:45 Victoria to Caterham CANCELLED AT VICTORIA
13:47 Victoria to Hastings Ran E Croydon to Eastbourne only 30" late
13:50 Victoria to Epsom CANCELLED AT VICTORIA
13:52 Victoria to London Bridge CANCELLED AT VICTORIA
13:53 Victoria to East Ginstead Ran East Croydon to East grinstead 58"
late
13:55 Victoria to Epsom CANCELLED AT VICTORIA

!!!!

I actually done Selhurst to Kings Cross by CAR instead ! Not something
I would normally do even in quite bad times/

Fat Richard