London Liverpool Street is still closed due to overrun of engineering
works - and looks like it will remain closed for some time:

"Sorry! Some problems have arisen with the complex engineering work
being carried out over the 10 day Christmas and New Year period.

As a result all services will be severly disrupted this morning -
Wednesday 2nd January 2008.

We and Network Rail are doing everything possible to ensure that
services return to normal as soon as possible, but at the moment it is
not possible to be precise about the effect on individual services.

We do advise not to travel into London if your journey is not
important."

From:
http://www.onerailway.com/rtti

Let me blaming game start!

(a bit) more from BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7167413.stm

"alex_t" wrote in message
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(a bit) more from BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7167413.stm

That article talks about the bridge removal works allowing the inference
that these works are the cause of the problems. However according to the
'one' website that all went smoothly and the problem is the OHLE replacement
works in the station.

G.

On 2 Jan, 12:02, "Graham J" wrote:
That article talks about the bridge removal works allowing the inference
that these works are the cause of the problems. *However according to the
'one' website that all went smoothly and the problem is the OHLE replacement
works in the station.

That sounds about right to me. I had another look at the bridge site
on Monday and the wires were back up and everything looked finished,
but further west there were lots of men in orange jackets milling
around (though no sign of any tools or equipment), and the OHLE looked
untouched.

U

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In article
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(Mr Thant) wrote:

On 2 Jan, 12:02, "Graham J" wrote:
That article talks about the bridge removal works allowing the
inference that these works are the cause of the problems. *However
according to the 'one' website that all went smoothly and the
problem is the OHLE replacement works in the station.

That sounds about right to me. I had another look at the bridge site
on Monday and the wires were back up and everything looked finished,
but further west there were lots of men in orange jackets milling
around (though no sign of any tools or equipment), and the OHLE
looked untouched.

I see that Cambridge was advertising trains to and from Liverpool St when
I got back there at 16:30 tonight. When did Liverpool St actually
re-open?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message
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In article
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(Mr Thant) wrote:

On 2 Jan, 12:02, "Graham J" wrote:
That article talks about the bridge removal works allowing the
inference that these works are the cause of the problems. However
according to the 'one' website that all went smoothly and the
problem is the OHLE replacement works in the station.

That sounds about right to me. I had another look at the bridge site
on Monday and the wires were back up and everything looked finished,
but further west there were lots of men in orange jackets milling
around (though no sign of any tools or equipment), and the OHLE
looked untouched.

I see that Cambridge was advertising trains to and from Liverpool St when
I got back there at 16:30 tonight. When did Liverpool St actually
re-open?


I think it was being reported mid afternoon on National Rail eng works page
that all platforms except 13-16 would be in use for the evening peak Colin.
[Sorry if numbers wrong, I'm not too familiar with LPL St.]

Paul S

Mr Thant wrote:
On 2 Jan, 12:02, "Graham J" wrote:
That article talks about the bridge removal works allowing the
inference that these works are the cause of the problems. However
according to the 'one' website that all went smoothly and the
problem is the OHLE replacement works in the station.

That sounds about right to me. I had another look at the bridge site
on Monday and the wires were back up and everything looked finished,
but further west there were lots of men in orange jackets milling
around (though no sign of any tools or equipment), and the OHLE
looked untouched.

And yet a few minutes ago (Wednesday evening), BBC News 24's reporter
was still blaming the delay in re-opening Liverpool Street on "late
completion of a bridge demolition". Can you believe *anything* that BBC
TV News says these days?

--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

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(Richard J.) wrote:

Can you believe *anything* that BBC
TV News says these days?

Not just the BBC. Journos seem long ago to have forgotten what facts are.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

This from the TfL site....

+++++++++++++
Current Overground network status
A good service is operating on all London Overground lines.

Other London rail operators
ONE RAILWAY: Due to a late finish to engineering works One services are not
serving Liverpool Street station.
++++++++++++++

To me this seems like a contradiction. The problem is that the Liverpool
Street line is a London overground line, but it isn't a London Overground
line. TfL should not have used "London Overground" to mean a small subset of
what the words have meant for the last hundred years.

"John Rowland" wrote in message
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This from the TfL site....

+++++++++++++
Current Overground network status
A good service is operating on all London Overground lines.

Other London rail operators
ONE RAILWAY: Due to a late finish to engineering works One services are
not serving Liverpool Street station.
++++++++++++++

To me this seems like a contradiction. The problem is that the Liverpool
Street line is a London overground line, but it isn't a London Overground
line. TfL should not have used "London Overground" to mean a small subset
of what the words have meant for the last hundred years.


You're definitely not the first to have come to that conclusion - and don't
forget all over South London stations still have the remains of the previous
'overground network' signage which is now meaningless.

Paul S