London Transport and Blizzards

[InnerBrat]

This is what happens when the Guilf Stream slips South:

Ro Jo-Mu, living in the 'burbs, usually takes about 40 minutes to get to work in the West End, or about an hour to get to Krapy Rub Snif, where I live (the north inner city area). Today he left for work at 3:30, and he has just phoned me (9:50) to let me know he's made it to Finsbury Park station at last. 6 hours for an hour's tube journey.

Because of snow, and London transport's inability to deal with it.

[kheegster]

This is what happens when the Guilf Stream slips South:

Ro Jo-Mu, living in the 'burbs, usually takes about 40 minutes to get to work in the West End, or about an hour to get to Krapy Rub Snif, where I live (the north inner city area). Today he left for work at 3:30, and he has just phoned me (9:50) to let me know he's made it to Finsbury Park station at last. 6 hours for an hour's tube journey.

Because of snow, and London transport's inability to deal with it.

I thought the accident closed the station?

[Ted]

It can't be that bad Debi, if the Tube is running regularly when the snow falls, none will stay on the tracks. Unless ice builds up along the third rail, the Tube should have no difficulty.

Heck, the only time the subway in Toronto is closed down during winter is from ice build up on the hill at Davisville station, and some other places on the line.

[kheegster]

There was an accident in the Tube last weekend...a train slipped off the tracks near Finsbury Park station (might be wrong here), and the passengers were trapped in the carriages with no ventilation and light...quite a few cases of heat stroke. Not surprisingly the transport system has been a bit shit since they shut down the station and the line it lies on...

[Ted]

How many lines were shut as a result?

[kheegster]

Three...Central, Waterloo and City Lines, IIRC, which runs right through the heart of London, and a few more were suspended as well. A really major FUBAR. And I was mistaken...it wasn't Finsbury Park where the derailment occured, but at Chancery Lane.

[Ted]

Shit man, London must've been insane.

How long it take for them to clean it up?

[Rob Wilson]

Shit man, London must've been insane.

How long it take for them to clean it up?

Knowing London transport, somewhere in the region of july 2004.

[InnerBrat]

OK, the accident was at CHANCERY LANE.

The central doesn't go through Finsbury Park, on account of Finsbury park being to the NW of zone 1

--edit--
and not central... y'see?

FP is the Victoria and Piccadilly.

[InnerBrat]

Sorry, kheegan, I've just noticed you realised your mistake, but the Waterloo and City line is one line, not two.

--edit--
Got Kheegan's name wrong. Always doing that, oops!

[kheegster]

Yup...my bad....

[Admiral Valdemar]

Shit man, London must've been insane.

How long it take for them to clean it up?

Knowing London transport, somewhere in the region of july 2004.

I hear it's healthier to chainsmoke 20 fags a day and eat only high cholesterol food for life than spend a year riding on the London underground.

When doing a routine health check of the carriages, they found chewing gum several years old, food that was well past it, urine from numerous animals not just humans, faeces, semen(!) and newspapers and magazines and several types of fungus; two previously unheard of! I shit you not, this was a report by the PHLS that my immunology prof. showed us.

[Ted]

I hear it's healthier to chainsmoke 20 fags a day and eat only high cholesterol food for life than spend a year riding on the London underground.

When doing a routine health check of the carriages, they found chewing gum several years old, food that was well past it, urine from numerous animals not just humans, faeces, semen(!) and newspapers and magazines and several types of fungus; two previously unheard of! I shit you not, this was a report by the PHLS that my immunology prof. showed us.

I can readily believe that, as i got front row seats to a cuouple fucking on the tube.

[kheegster]

[A Big Flying Fish]

I hear it's healthier to chainsmoke 20 fags a day and eat only high cholesterol food for life than spend a year riding on the London underground.

When doing a routine health check of the carriages, they found chewing gum several years old, food that was well past it, urine from numerous animals not just humans, faeces, semen(!) and newspapers and magazines and several types of fungus; two previously unheard of! I shit you not, this was a report by the PHLS that my immunology prof. showed us.

And that surprises you why? Just going on the underground for about 2 hours out of the day for a week gave me some, unexpected surprises, including:
- drunk homeless man running through stations complaining about "them", never did find out who "them" was
- syringes put down the back of seats
- dodgy noises from the toilets (nearly shouted out to keep it down, then I realised what the noise was from)

[Ro Jo-Mu]

Shit man, London must've been insane.

How long it take for them to clean it up?

Knowing London transport, somewhere in the region of july 2004.

Actually still waiting for it to get all cleared up, should be about abother week!
And yes it was that bad, 6 hours to do a 1 hour journey. The thing was the snow fell so quickly and the temperature dropped so fast that the rails iced up inbetween trains passing. if i had got a train 5 minutes earlier i would have been fine!
I was stuck on one train for three hours which we aventually had to abandon on the top of kilburn bride and walk along the snow covered tracks to the next station. It might be usual in canada, but here we dont get that much snow in so little time very often.