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There are absolutely no trains going either way through Vauxhall at the
moment, 15.55. There is one outbound Eurostar which has stook at
signals for about 10 minutes now.

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Kev wrote:
There are absolutely no trains going either way through Vauxhall at the
moment, 15.55. There is one outbound Eurostar which has stook at
signals for about 10 minutes now.

kevin

I bet the people on the Eurostar that has been sat in Vauxhall for half
an hour now wished that they had gone on the plane. You know the ad, by
now you would be, well sitting in Vauxhall.

Kevin

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Kev wrote:
There are absolutely no trains going either way through Vauxhall at the
moment, 15.55. There is one outbound Eurostar which has stook at
signals for about 10 minutes now.

I bet the people on the Eurostar that has been sat in Vauxhall for half
an hour now wished that they had gone on the plane. You know the ad, by
now you would be, well sitting in Vauxhall.


Indeed. It's unheard-of to get on a plane and then be stuck on the
tarmac at Heathrow for 45 minutes. Imagine the furore if that were to
happen!

What's that, Skippy? "Loads of flights get stuck on the tarmac awaiting
take-off, and the average delay on short-haul flights is far greater
than the average delay on intercity trains"? Wash your mouth out with
soap, Skippy: we'll have none of that Commie train-loving talk round
here...

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Kev wrote:
There are absolutely no trains going either way through Vauxhall at the
moment, 15.55. There is one outbound Eurostar which has stook at
signals for about 10 minutes now.

kevin

I bet the people on the Eurostar that has been sat in Vauxhall for half
an hour now wished that they had gone on the plane. You know the ad, by
now you would be, well sitting in Vauxhall.

Kevin


how long is this due to be affected do you know?


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Kev wrote:
There are absolutely no trains going either way through Vauxhall at the
moment, 15.55. There is one outbound Eurostar which has stook at
signals for about 10 minutes now.

kevin

I bet the people on the Eurostar that has been sat in Vauxhall for half
an hour now wished that they had gone on the plane. You know the ad, by
now you would be, well sitting in Vauxhall.

Kevin


how long is this due to be affected do you know?

According to SWT website its due a lightening strike on signal cabling so
your guess is probably as good as anyone's!




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Paul wrote:
According to SWT website its due a lightening strike on signal
cabling


Ah, those lightning strikes. Can't get the staff, you know!


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Paul wrote:
"MarchGDB" wrote in message
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"Kev" wrote in message
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Kev wrote:
There are absolutely no trains going either way through Vauxhall
at the moment, 15.55. There is one outbound Eurostar which has
stook at signals for about 10 minutes now.

kevin
I bet the people on the Eurostar that has been sat in Vauxhall
for half an hour now wished that they had gone on the plane. You
know the ad, by now you would be, well sitting in Vauxhall.

Kevin


how long is this due to be affected do you know?

According to SWT website its due a lightening strike on signal
cabling so your guess is probably as good as anyone's!


TfL at 17:37 are advising passengers to travel to Clapham Junction,
presumably from Victoria. No trains Waterloo-Clapham Junction.
Waterloo & City Line also suspended due to power failure after lightning
strike. Met & Jubilee suffering minor delays due to lightning strike at
Finchley Road.

Well, we do need the rain!
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If the weather hadn't been privitised we'd never have had the Lightning,
Bloody Thatcher.


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Richard J. wrote:
Paul wrote:
"MarchGDB" wrote in message
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"Kev" wrote in message
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Kev wrote:
There are absolutely no trains going either way through Vauxhall
at the moment, 15.55. There is one outbound Eurostar which has
stook at signals for about 10 minutes now.

kevin
I bet the people on the Eurostar that has been sat in Vauxhall
for half an hour now wished that they had gone on the plane. You
know the ad, by now you would be, well sitting in Vauxhall.

Kevin


how long is this due to be affected do you know?

According to SWT website its due a lightening strike on signal
cabling so your guess is probably as good as anyone's!


TfL at 17:37 are advising passengers to travel to Clapham Junction,
presumably from Victoria. No trains Waterloo-Clapham Junction.
Waterloo & City Line also suspended due to power failure after lightning
strike. Met & Jubilee suffering minor delays due to lightning strike at
Finchley Road.

Well, we do need the rain!
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)




I arrived at Waterloo today at about 1840. Trains about ten minutes
late, but no spectacular problems.

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I arrived at Waterloo today at about 1840. Trains about ten minutes
late, but no spectacular problems.

It was starting to be cleared by then but it was obvious from the Southern
side something was screwed as the CIS displays at Clapham were kaputt and
there were crowds lining the SWT platforms ten deep.

Mind you Victoria had its own problems, after standing for fifteen minutes
past departure time waiting for someone to come and unlock the doors on the
East Grinstead service, the driver failed to show and a couple of thousand
very cheesed off looking passengers were forced to cram onto anything
heading to East Croydon.

The Eastbourne and Horsham services got suddenly very cosy!

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