BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East
 

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
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BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East
 

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.

BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East
 

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?

BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East
 

In article , John Abbot
writes
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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BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East
 

In article , 3518+3227
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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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BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East
 

That's odd...

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

Even the headlights work.

BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East
 

In article , Badabing
writes
in article , Andrew P Smith at
wrote on 28/8/03 8:03 PM:

In article , John Abbot
writes
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.

Someone better look into that 'back up' then, eh?

As far as I am aware it kicked in and provided power to shunt the trains
back into platforms with.
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BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East
 

"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

Great, all the cross-posted trolls are back X-(

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BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East
 

Andrew P Smith wrote:
In article , Badabing
writes
in article , Andrew P Smith at
wrote on 28/8/03 8:03 PM:

In article , John Abbot
writes
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.

Someone better look into that 'back up' then, eh?

As far as I am aware it kicked in and provided power to shunt the
trains back into platforms with.

But the TfL press release said "The Tube network was evacuated, including
some trains in tunnels between stations", which suggests that Greenwich
might not have been wholly successful.
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BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East
 

"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

Why isn't this plastered across all the US news channels the way there power cut
was across all of ours?