"Witch's Hat" stalls four tube trains

[class156]

Here's an unusual story from the bbc news website http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11661576

 

[SouthEastern-465]

Had to laugh!

 

[Royston Vasey]

Apparently it was made out of real fox fur, the driver who saw it was heard to shout "What the fox hat!?"

 

[Wyvern]

Priceless!

 

[Daniel]

..t'was 5 trains actually. No DSM on duty on the Edgware branch to authorise overtime if staff were willing to work it, so I walked out at my book off time. Had the power outage been fixed, there would have been no member of staff to greet the passengers on arrival, (have someone there to whinge at), and the supervisors wouldn't leave the office if lone working.

Although the cause is funny, it was quite ridiculous..

 

[Old Timer]

Daniel

I presume to that there is more to this than someone simply removing it from the third rail ?

 

[Mojo]

..t'was 5 trains actually.

You'd better tell the NOC, as in the Managers Daily Review it was reported as 4 trains

 

[Daniel]

You'd better tell the NOC, as in the Managers Daily Review it was reported as 4 trains

I noticed that - got a screenshot of tracker at the time, showing one in the pipe on the approach to Belsize, 1 in the platform at Chalk, one between Camden & Chalk, one in Camden platform, and one at Mornington. It is always possible one of them was an engineers / empty / detrained immediately and wasn't counted, however.

 

[142094]

Would be good if the person who threw the hat onto the line was made to pay for the disruption caused.

 

[Daniel]

Indeed. I did manage to make a customers day today over this incident, though.
He had two incomplete journeys due to excess journey time.
I went to resolve them, but asked him to wait as I checked something.
Ended up finding out for him that he's entitled to £100 compensation for being delayed on a train for more than 1 hour and detrained after 22:00.

 

[Mojo]

I noticed that - got a screenshot of tracker at the time, showing one in the pipe on the approach to Belsize, 1 in the platform at Chalk, one between Camden & Chalk, one in Camden platform, and one at Mornington. It is always possible one of them was an engineers / empty / detrained immediately and wasn't counted, however.

If it was in the platform then I don't believe it counts as a stalled train. I once watched a fatality at Charing + a few weeks ago and there were trains backed up to Marylebone but all were in platforms and it said there were no stalled trains the next day.

But you worked in the NOC, not me