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Forum: London Transport November 17th 06, 08:45 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 4,930
Posted By Chris Game
The first bow-string arch bridge in Britain to carry a railway

BH Williams wrote:

"Charles Ellson" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:30:23 +0000, Tom Anderson
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Forum: London Transport November 16th 06, 11:34 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 4,930
Posted By Chris Game
The first bow-string arch bridge in Britain to carry a railway

Charles Ellson wrote:

Isn't there a yonks-old bowstring bridge on a disused line
somewhere up near Penrith ?

LOL! I wondered how long it would take for someone to bring up the
Keswick-Penrith...
Forum: London Transport April 28th 05, 10:04 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,752
Posted By Chris Game
the great unmentionable of the general election

Mike wrote:

So if for a moment you thought that what the electorate wants
really matters to politicians, think again. Since when did they
ever listen to the voters?


I'm sure...
Forum: London Transport October 19th 04, 03:22 PM
Replies: 56
Views: 11,046
Posted By Chris Game
Epping-Ongar Railway services commence

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:41:27 +0100, Nick Pedley wrote:

Engage your braincell and see if you can tell us what point was trying
to be made by M. Whitson asking "Have you ever heard of HSE, ASLEF...
Forum: London Transport October 19th 04, 09:38 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 11,046
Posted By Chris Game
Epping-Ongar Railway services commence

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:08:55 -0700, Boltar wrote:

For the rest of us who are several hundred miles away from the DLR, it
might be better to make the point rather than give us a useless hint.
...
Forum: London Transport October 18th 04, 11:27 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 11,046
Posted By Chris Game
Epping-Ongar Railway services commence

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 04:08:56 -0700, Boltar wrote:

I have - what is your point?

Have you ever heard of the Docklands Light Railway? You might want to
check out the front seat full ahead...
Forum: London Transport September 23rd 04, 09:14 PM
Replies: 59
Views: 13,724
Posted By Chris Game
Technology for its own sake?

Chris J Dixon wrote:

Ware springs to mind, and most termini. That sounds high-tech
enough to break down a lot, and requires fitting of kit at
stations, which are the most easily vandalised...
Forum: London Transport September 13th 03, 10:10 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 8,232
Posted By Chris Game
A light shines where there was none

robsignals said:

I wonder how Mr Game will respond if, or probably when,
he's involved in an embarrasing cock-up...

I expect I would protect my arse, like anyone else. That's why we
have...
Forum: London Transport September 13th 03, 10:07 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 8,232
Posted By Chris Game
A light shines where there was none

Richard Catlow said:

One other observation. If Mr Game is a quality Guru, perhaps he
should offer his services to NGT?, he obviously knows better than
those within NGT who have a professional...
Forum: London Transport September 13th 03, 09:46 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 8,232
Posted By Chris Game
A light shines where there was none

Wanderer said:

Some of this seems fairly elementary - I know this is easy to
say with hindsight - but are the electricity supplies really
this badly managed?

No, they're...
Forum: London Transport September 11th 03, 12:06 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 8,232
Posted By Chris Game
A light shines where there was none

robsignals said:

The risk of a second fault on that circuit during this time is
estimated at 1:40,000 though that doesn't apply here with the
system wrongly set-up.

You mean that was the...
Forum: London Transport September 11th 03, 12:03 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 8,232
Posted By Chris Game
A light shines where there was none

PJML said:

"The fitter who fitted it is colour-blind" admitted the
refinery operators after some days of the trial.

A classic - and one of the things quality auditors are trained to
look out...
Forum: London Transport September 11th 03, 11:58 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 8,232
Posted By Chris Game
A light shines where there was none

robsignals said:

...I guess those engineers assumed they had been handed over
correctly installed equipment and never thought to check the
relay rating, pity they aren't brightly colour coded....
Forum: London Transport September 10th 03, 05:53 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 8,232
Posted By Chris Game
A light shines where there was none

Roland Perry said:

The *reason* for the second outage might have been human error
[1], but the second outage was most definitely *caused* (ie
triggered) by the first. It wasn't an "unrelated"...
Forum: London Transport August 31st 03, 03:09 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 22,439
Posted By Chris Game
BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East

Chris Lambert said:

Or maybe we should be addressing the issue of why thousands of
people were angry or shocked by a 40 minute power cut.

That bit's fairly obvious I'd have thought. No-one...
Forum: London Transport August 30th 03, 10:19 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 22,439
Posted By Chris Game
BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East

James Farrar said:

I haven't seen any reports that used the word "unrelated".

The Energy Minister's comments on the BBC on Friday.

Oh, a politician.

Presumably talking after a...
Forum: London Transport August 30th 03, 10:17 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 22,439
Posted By Chris Game
BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East

Paul Terry said:

Risk is ever-present in life. Managing risk is both an art and a
science, but one must not let the emotions rule. A power-cut such as
this was very much shorter than many...
Forum: London Transport August 30th 03, 01:23 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 22,439
Posted By Chris Game
BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East

Roland Perry said:

In article , Chris Game
writes
The faults were generally reported as 'unrelated'. Do you know
...
Forum: London Transport August 30th 03, 09:20 AM
Replies: 114
Views: 22,439
Posted By Chris Game
BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East

John Turner said:


"Depresion" wrote

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

It was, or must have been. I got...
Forum: London Transport August 30th 03, 09:17 AM
Replies: 114
Views: 22,439
Posted By Chris Game
BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East

Cast_Iron said:

Chris, you're suggesting that the powers that be engage in some
planning are you??

As "Sir Humphrey" might say, "That's a novel approach, Minister".

LOL!

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Forum: London Transport August 30th 03, 09:06 AM
Replies: 114
Views: 22,439
Posted By Chris Game
BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East

Paul Weaver said:

Do you want to pay twice the price for your electricity (and
increase in prices for every industry that relys on electricity)
to prevent a 40 minute blackout to a small area...
Forum: London Transport August 29th 03, 08:24 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 22,439
Posted By Chris Game
BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East

Wanderer said:

A system transformer failure ay Hurst in Kent, followed some 7
seconds later by a fault on a 275kv underground cable between
their New Cross and Wimbledon substations. ...
Forum: London Transport August 29th 03, 08:22 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 22,439
Posted By Chris Game
BREAKING NEWS!! Power Cut affecting Railways in the South East

Richard Catlow said:

From our records, we have never experienced a simultaneous loss
of two supergrid sites in the London area before now and it is
not a contingency we plan for, ...

(Our...
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