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Snow on the line
On 2017\12\12 20:59, Recliner wrote:
Mike Bristow wrote: In article , Recliner wrote: Epping and Amersham were both affected, and are about 30 miles apart as the crow flies, and 44 miles apart by track kilometerage. I mentioned Uxbridge, not Epping. ... in the context of "power supply problems" - which may or may not have been caused by iced-up conductor rails. Which were reported all over the network: https://twitter.com/centralline/stat...41391773061120 https://twitter.com/metline/status/939783801387061248 https://twitter.com/northernline/sta...67343521550336 https://twitter.com/jubileeline/stat...91679812505601 I can't think of an explaination for the widespread disruption that /isn't/ ice-on-the-conductor rails - something like the national grid being unable to supply sufficent current to LUL due to their issues would have affected the victoria, circle and bakerloo too: and they didn't report power supply problems. What's a plausible alternative? Problems with substations? Aren't the substations on the deep lines just as exposed to the weather as the substations on the surface lines? |
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