On Jan 9, 3:38*am, "Steve Dulieu"
wrote:
gapped. Sadly LU's reading of the electricity at work act coupled with the
current elf n' safety fetish has meant that gap jumpers have been deemed to
be a BAD THING and have been removed from the majority of sites where we
used to have them just in case someone who doesn't know what their doing
tries to play with them.

Thats just bloody dumb. I suspect even the nappy wearers at the H&SE
would assume that an electric railway sometimes requires people to
work with electricity! Someone in LU management needs a kicking.

These were at Golders Green, the ERU were coming from Vauxhall so we ain't
talking instant response here.

Words for once fail me.

The various discharges of traction current meant that we were not able to
reverse at Oakwood from about 16:00 to 16:20 and from 17:10 to 17:40.

If the announcements had just said that the power supply had to be
switched off to detrain passengers instead of just saying "stalled
train. the end" all would have been explained.

Arnos DMT drove to CK, that man was me, only problem is I had not driven a
car since 1990, so you can comfort yourself with thought that at least one

So i'm guessing you don't own a car and had to borrow one so why
didn't the owner of the car drive up there? I won't ask about
insurance

of the bone idle useless layabouts who work for LU was actually sh*tting
himself.

Look at it from a passengers point of view stuck in a tunnel yet again
north of finsbury park with no information. Lets be honest , its not
the first time this has happened. In the end me and the wife ended up
getting a train back southbound to finsbury park to catch FCC which by
then was offering a once every 20 mins service. Ended up at new
southgate (no service on the hertford north line it appeared) and
waiting in the cold for a 382 bus for another 20 mins which then
proceeded to go around every damn side street it could find. Ended up
taking not far off 2 hours to get home from central london. It only
takes 3 hours to walk it! (I had to do just that on 7/7).

Anyway , I take back what I said about LU staff. It seems your knob
headed management caused this by removing all the gap leads. Bunch of
****s.

B2003