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« on: March 01, 2013, 12:36:09 »
Rail passengers face disruption to their journeys after overhead wires on the West Coast Main Line near Milton Keynes were damaged...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21627169

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/sa7e46e0bd204cc09c51a2b2c7a9ce80/details.html
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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2013, 12:54:10 »
Things to come on the GWML▸ (Great Western Main Line)......:-(
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« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2013, 15:17:27 »
It looks like a Pan ripped off in one of the photos in the BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) report.
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« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2013, 17:53:59 »
Its a pan of off one of Branson's Pendilieno's
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Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly, or a RUD, during ascent,”
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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2013, 18:33:16 »
A real nightmare out of Euston, by all accounts - SWT▸ (South West Trains) have been making announcements at their stations all day warning passengers of the disruption.
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« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2013, 20:55:46 »
Quote from: inspector_blakey on March 01, 2013, 18:33:16
A real nightmare out of Euston, by all accounts - SWT▸ (South West Trains) have been making announcements at their stations all day warning passengers of the disruption.

NR» (Network Rail - home page)'s Director of Maintenance will not be a happy bunny, he stated after the St Neots incident that NR is not to have another de-wirement, bit of a King Canute statement. 

The cold weather is the likely cause for the St Neots freezing moisture in a porcelain insulator causing it to fail, Radlet the jury is still out on the cause
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« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2013, 12:44:51 »
ET, I suspect you will know this.  Tabloids will ask 'why can Swiss railways operate with all the ice and snow....etc, etc'.

Do you have an inkling or is SBB just as vulnerable?
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« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2013, 13:26:24 »
Switzerland has just over 3000km of railway.

Great Britain has just under 16000km of railway.

I dare say if we had a network a fifth the size of the one we do that we'd have a fifth of the operating issues.
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« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2013, 15:05:09 »
Plus the Swiss know they are going to get snow and ice every year.

Re the incident was the Pan or the Wires that caused the problem or has that not been ascertained yet?
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« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2013, 16:50:36 »
I bet the Swiss have de-wirements, as N SE said we have a much larger newtwork higher intensity of trains faster speeds.

Don't know what caused the WCML▸ (West Coast Main Line) incident, it usually takes a day or two for the info to come through the grape vine
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