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On Sun, 01 Feb 1998 17:53:00 -0800, "A.Boodoo" <axb640@bham.ac.uk>
wrote:

>01/02/98
>
>Birmingham Cross City Line
>
>"No trains today until further notice" at University station
>
>Any idea what's going on?
>
>A.Boodoo


There was a total power failure at Saltley panel which controls the
signalling in the area.   Quite a few of the long distance trains
(Virgin XC) were diverted via Worcester and Stourbridge.

Sandy Saunders
Worcester



Sandy Saunders
Worcester

Ian G Batten (I.G.Batten@batten.eu.org) wrote:

: Ah, so that'll be the reliable train network, which we are all expected
: to forsake our cars for.  One component fails on the other side of the
: city and the railway stops working.  I presume the railway apologists
: will now tell us how this is expected behaviour.

It's a good thing motorways are totally unaffected by the extremely rare
accidents which occur, eh? Otherwise it might have taken my taxi driver
90 minutes to get from Milton Keynes to Luton this morning. No, hang on, it
_did_ take my taxi driver 90 minutes to get from Milton Keynes to Luton
this morning. Damn railways, clogging up the motorways.

Ian

In article <6b9nfp$pdv$1@ftel.ftel.co.uk>,
 Ian G Batten <I.G.Batten@batten.eu.org> wrote:
> Ah, so that'll be the reliable train network, which we are all expected
> to forsake our cars for.  One component fails on the other side of the
> city and the railway stops working.  I presume the railway apologists
> will now tell us how this is expected behaviour.

> Coming next ``some traffic lights have failed in Wolverhampton: let's
> shut down the M6''.

Like our 2 hour journeyfrom Milton Keynes to Towcester, along the A5,
because of an accident on the M1?

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In article <6b9nfp$pdv$1@ftel.ftel.co.uk>,
Ian G Batten  <I.G.Batten@batten.eu.org> wrote:
>Coming next ``some traffic lights have failed in Wolverhampton: let's
>shut down the M6''.

Many a true word.

When the tail back reaches the motorway .....

> Incidentally on Saturday 31/01/98, New Street was evacuated for a long
> time due to a bomb scare, probably until they realised it was some
> construction worker's toolbox or something.
> 
> Interesting how RT plan to make Birmingham New Street "light and airy"...
> 
> A.Boodoo

Apart from my having spent many formative years sitting on the Brute
trolleys at BNS and therefore having a little fondness for the place,
wouldn't they be best to ignore all 'tool box' alerts in the hope that
one of them turned out to be something which would make the station
'light and airy'? (I don't mean leave the passengers around of course!)
Then they could claim the whole rebuilding exercise on the insurance!

Tony Miles

Quoting "A.Boodoo" <axb640@bham.ac.uk>:

>
>Incidentally on Saturday 31/01/98, New Street was evacuated for a long 
>time due to a bomb scare, probably until they realised it was some 
>construction worker's toolbox or something.
>
The trouble is, of course - what if they *didn't* evacuate, and it
*wasn't* a construction worker's toolbox.  I'd far rather be evacuated
ninety-nine times by someone's sandwiches than be caught up in the 
hundredth time when it wasn't.

They no longer have litter-bins at the main London stations since
someone was killed by a bomb hidden in one some years ago.  I find it
irritating having nowhere to throw away any litter I might have acquired
on the train (only the more modern rolling stock have litter-bins), but
again, I'd rather take it home than take a risk.....
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