On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:27:11 +0000 (UTC), "Peter Masson"
wrote:
[...]
As was to be expected, though, a collapse of the service for a reason
outside the control of the railways was accompanied by a collapse of
information. The Connex website even managed to proclaim 'no major
problems'.

TfL's site earlier helpfully said that there was no travel information
because of the power cut. If they were able to upload a specific
message to the site, why wasn't anything useful posted? Shouldn't
they have someone on call to do things like this? Now they are
telling us to ask at a local station as most services are "affected".
A list of lines that have service, and a plea not to travel at all
would be more useful. I'm sure everyone on the ground is doing their
bit, but where's the coordination?

And as for the other train companies... Connex are still "running
well", though their train running pages are quite helpful. SWT's news
about the delays is two clicks away from the home page and should IMHO
be much more prominent. c2c useless. SouthCentral useless.
Silverlink - gave up. Of the TOC sites I looked at, only WAGN have
news about the power cut on their first page. National Rail has a
very nice obvious link to the current disruptions page, however once
you get to the page, the information about tonight's delays has gone!

Even though most people affected won't be in front of a web browser,
it depresses me how little use was made of the medium by the
operators.

Richard.

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On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:27:11 +0000 (UTC), "Peter Masson"
wrote:
[...]
As was to be expected, though, a collapse of the service for a reason
outside the control of the railways was accompanied by a collapse of
information. The Connex website even managed to proclaim 'no major
problems'.

Connex are based on the South Bank, so I guess they would have been in the
dark for a while as well...

Mark

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:34:34 +0000 (UTC), "Mark"
wrote:

Connex are based on the South Bank, so I guess they would have been in the
dark for a while as well...

We've been hit with a few power cuts at work recently, and minimal
disruption was caused because we all use laptops, while the telephone
system has backup batteries. We lost network connectivity, but could
have dialed up to the Internet if necessary (indeed, some people for
whom it was critical did so).

Assuming the telephone system was not affected, I don't see how Connex
(or indeed any other TOC) couldn't have uploaded a simple message in
the same situation.

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Joe Patrick wrote:
There has been a power cut, affecting the Tube and trains
BBC News Reports:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3189755.stm


I struggled to get back home tonight and I live in North London.

I can sort of understand why the tube to my part of the world was
totally buggered, but any ideas why a power cut in South London should
wipe out virtually all the local trains from Kings Cross (and Euston)as
well?

wrote:
There has been a power cut, affecting the Tube and trains
BBC News Reports:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3189755.stm

Well, for some reason, the BBC are treating this (as I write) as their *top
national* news story, whereas Blair's hand in the death of Dr Kelly is
relegated to "other items in the news" status.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

"JNugent" wrote in message ...
wrote:
There has been a power cut, affecting the Tube and trains
BBC News Reports:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3189755.stm

Well, for some reason, the BBC are treating this (as I write) as their *top
national* news story, whereas Blair's hand in the death of Dr Kelly is
relegated to "other items in the news" status.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Your not suggesting some form of conspiracy like realising bad news on the day
of a royal funeral or bombing Iraq the day you are testifying in Zipergate?

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:59:48 +0100, "Depresion"
wrote:


"JNugent" wrote in message ...
wrote:
There has been a power cut, affecting the Tube and trains
BBC News Reports:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3189755.stm

Well, for some reason, the BBC are treating this (as I write) as their *top
national* news story, whereas Blair's hand in the death of Dr Kelly is
relegated to "other items in the news" status.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Your not suggesting some form of conspiracy like realising bad news on the day
of a royal funeral or bombing Iraq the day you are testifying in Zipergate?

As soemone else mentioned he probably shorted out the grid whilst
changing his arze lightbulb as the light shining out of it was dulling
off badly.
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As soemone else mentioned he probably shorted out the grid whilst
changing his arze lightbulb as the light shining out of it was dulling
off badly.

I particularly liked yesterday's cartoon in the Times, linking both the
power cut and Campbell's departure. It shows a National Grid official on
the phone saying "Its Tony Blair. He's lost the power behind the
throne".

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On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:40:15 +0100, Joe Patrick wrote:

There has been a power cut, affecting the Tube and trains BBC News
Reports:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3189755.stm

This one made me laugh

http://thisislondon.co.uk/news/artic...ing%20Standard

Quoting one affected passenger:

"I am so angry and frustrated," he said. "But this is what you come to
expect from the Tube. I am especially fed up with how the slightest thing
goes wrong and then everything falls completely apart. The other thing we
are rarely offered is alternative ways of getting home. I will be asking
for compensation."

Slightest thing? That's a good one! What would it take for him to accept
something as actually not being the railways' fault? Charing X being nuked
perhaps... Or perhaps all the railway staff should have plugged their
bicycle dynamos into the juicer and pedalled their hearts out...

Someone should be getting their balls on the line for yesterday, but it's
not the railways as far as I can see.

Cheers

Timbo

There has been a power cut, affecting the Tube and trains BBC News
Reports:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3189755.stm

I thought that the tube had emergency lights (well the signs on the 1992
stock say so!)
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