PaxVobiscum
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If your using a Windows computer. Not so on a Mac, Unix or other machine or mobile or other smart device.
Awww, no need to give L&Y Robert the 3rdº
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If your using a Windows computer. Not so on a Mac, Unix or other machine or mobile or other smart device.
The main issue appeared to be a 455 with a failed horn which had to run at 20mph from Claygate to Wimbledon, then terminate at Wimbledon to run in to the depot. This caused some lengthy delays to other London bound trains.
I didn't mean to be hard. Just get the urge to mention others forms when people only refer to one.Awww, no need to give L&Y Robert the 3rdº
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Makes change for it to be SWT! It's usually just the Tube or Southern. LOL! And yes I don't like their anti rail stance.i see the Standard so called paper went into another rant because the service cocked up on SWT last night.:roll:
That toilet rag slags the railways all the time because it has nothing better to do.
I missed the fun because I was early turn.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/tran...wreaks-havoc-across-the-capital-a3439386.htmlNothing to do with the two minutes of snow that fell. The train broke down hours ago. Never happened like this when we had steam trains.......
You are joking.....??
Sorry dangie I can't get the quote to work properly. Very sensibly I guess you were making the point that 1-2cm of snow is not a lot. That deserves a response. You're quite right of course, but there was quite a lot of snow before any settled. I was out running in it for 20 minutes and none settled in that time. I didn't think it was going to settle and was quite surprised a couple of hours later to see that in fact some snow had settled.
The other point is that you're quite right; this is the effete South and with the area being fairly low and urban we don't often get snow which settles. I would guess this was more settled snow than I see most years in this part of the town. The countryside around does seem to get more.
Because we get so little snow people don't tend to be prepared for it and the roads and trains are usually pretty bad after any snow. On this occasion, however, the trains were fine.
What I would like to know is why all went so well. I guess the advance warning helped, but were there any other factors?
Thanks for your comment anyway!
... The roads were a different story, how is people driving incompetently somehow the fault of "the authorities"?
What I would like to know is why all went so well. I guess the advance warning helped, but were there any other factors?
Thanks for your comment anyway!
I have the deepest sympathy for those charged with gritting the roads when the downpour comes between 3pm and 6pm on a weekday. There's no point in gritting bofore the snow settles as it just gets pushed into the gutter by the traffic. By the time that the snow starts falling, the roads are full of vehicles trying to get away before the rush, so the gritters cannot do much of the network as they are stuck in those queues.
Of course, the media then makes a big fuss saying "where were the gritters (that we pay for in out council tax)?" The gritting teams are damned either way.