There has been a power cut, affecting the Tube and trains
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Joe Patrick wrote in message ...
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

Interesting. I thought the Underground still took its juice from Lots Road
(ie its own dedicated power station). Or is that closed now?

John Abbot wrote in message ...
Interesting. I thought the Underground still took its juice from Lots Road
(ie its own dedicated power station). Or is that closed now?

Lots Road is closed, and is in the process of decommissioning. All LU power supply is now taken from the National Grid, via a small number of Bulk Supply Points at strategic points around London. Greenwich power station is retained as a backup supply, normally unused.

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Greenwich power station is retained as a backup supply, normally unused.

Including during the power cut today, perhaps?
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In article , 3518+3227
writes
Greenwich power station is retained as a backup supply, normally unused.

Including during the power cut today, perhaps?

That's one of a number of questions which they will have to answer.
I see that journalists were beginning to ask this question this
morning.


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"3518+3227" wrote in message ...
John Abbot wrote in message ...
Interesting. I thought the Underground still took its juice from Lots
Road
(ie its own dedicated power station). Or is that closed now?

Lots Road is closed, and is in the process of decommissioning. All LU
power supply is now taken from the National Grid, via a small number of
Bulk Supply Points at strategic points around London. Greenwich power
station is retained as a backup supply, normally unused.

Methinks, that in the investigation into what went wrong, the whole question of
how the LUL gets its power supply will be looked into. While I accept that
when the decision was taken to shut Lots Road, the question of "Can the National
Grid cope with this extra loading?" was probably looked into closely, maybe the
answers that they came up with were not widely broadcast, other than a bland
"The system can cope".

Perhaps, LUL (and should I add TfL here as well) could when the Lots Road site
is cleared, put the money from the sale of the site into some new investment in
the power supply. Though wasn't the Lots Road building listed?

Can an incident like this do much for the 2012 Olymipic bid for London? Cynic's
will say it won't, but all I'll say is that it won't go unoticed.

Trevor

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Joe Patrick wrote in message ...
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

Interesting. I thought the Underground still took its juice from Lots Road
(ie its own dedicated power station). Or is that closed now?


Lots road closed 18 months ago. There is still a back up facility at
Greenwich IIRC.
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Interesting. I thought the Underground still took its juice from Lots Road
(ie its own dedicated power station). Or is that closed now?


Lots Road closed earlier this year.

Marc.

That's odd...

My car performs as normal, despite the power cuts apparently prevalent in
the SE.

Even the headlights work.

It's OK until you need petrol - I notice that few outlets use gravity feed.
Or do you have your garage lined with jerry cans which you rotate properly
to avoid "stale" petrol, so that you have your version of the Greenwich
back-up station. Of course, you always carry a full jerry can with you ....



DW down under (and yes, we have outages too).


"JNugent" wrote in message
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: That's odd...
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: My car performs as normal, despite the power cuts apparently prevalent in
: the SE.
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: Even the headlights work.
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