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White City Derailment

As you do when your sitting waiting to leave, I continually refresh the news to see whats happening, especially when one of the articles concerns my journey home. Whilst I was doing this, I noticed that the original quote of the 6th carriage and 20 miles an hour, has now changed to the 7th carriage and 15 miles an hour.

On a side note, part of the BBC article includes the text:

It said the White City train derailed at a set of points undergoing routine maintenance where a 20 mile-an-hour speed restriction was in place.

Presumably it would be safer not to perform maintenance during operational hours? Or perhaps as I think they mean, to keep having to stop works to enable the line to keep running. Perhaps they could do works contemporaneously with the other outages that happened and are happening on the central line these past few weekends. Or even have done some when the entire line was broken because of Chancery Lane. Or maybe not.

I get the sneaky suspicion that heads will roll after this, because surely after 4 derailments (2 x Central , 1 x Northern and 1 x Picadilly) in just over 16 months, people should be realising that crashing trains aren't good for a) the rail network; b) the companies running them; c) the shareholders; d) peoples morale; and perhaps most importantly e) peoples health.

Sadly in this day and age, I feel that c) is given the largest priority much to the detriment of e).

11 May 2004 16:18 | (0) comments | London


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