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Re: Know When to Run: The Story Behind the Xmas Kings Cross Problems

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Post by walshemj » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 2:44 PM UTC

parados wrote: post #10

bmsleight wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The rail accident investigators, are very very good engineers. They area ready attend any accident across the UK in a mater of hours. They even have powers of arrest.

> They even have powers of arrest. Source?

A lot of the X civil service org have some odd grandfathered powers BT's an d the royal mail internal security have more powers the average function in an ordinary PLC has.

Not Bruce Sheniers resignation statement and notice how careful he is to be nice to BT security.

Re: Know When to Run: The Story Behind the Xmas Kings Cross Problems

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Post by walshemj » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 2:47 PM UTC

Joeboy wrote: post #3

When the trains are screwed I tend to just swear a lot and imagine that rail engineering meetings consist of crack addled muppets riding around in clown cars. It's interesting to get an actual behind the scenes explanation. They should publicize this kind of thing more, it's good PR. What I would really like to know is, what's the story behind the London Norwich line being frequently down at weekends since I started…

they don't seem very good at emergency response ie unable to sort out the minor flooding at Farringdon recently - how hard is it to quickly get some pumps in to clear the problem.

It was messed up on Saturday - they had an entire day and night to sort something

Re: Know When to Run: The Story Behind the Xmas Kings Cross Problems

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Post by jheriko » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 4:20 PM UTC

parados wrote: post #10

bmsleight wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The rail accident investigators, are very very good engineers. They area ready attend any accident across the UK in a mater of hours. They even have powers of arrest.

> They even have powers of arrest. Source?

everyone in the UK has powers of arrest afaik - you don't even need to be a citizen.

however, i'd imagine that these guys are instructed on how to use it, unlike the wider populace

Re: Know When to Run: The Story Behind the Xmas Kings Cross Problems

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Post by Animats » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 7:15 PM UTC

Animats wrote: post #7

The NYC MTA has Youtube videos ( http://www.aetherltd.com/communicating.html ) and a Flickr feed ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos ). They're offered with little commentary; most of the videos are just raw images of construction, repair work, and emergencies. You get a sense of the huge construction and repair efforts required for a major subway system.

Oops, wrong Youtube link. Should be: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHkn788ZQJO45542MXbv...