A work colleague who lives in Whistable and commutes via SE Network
Rail to Dulwich SE London was five hours late today due to delays
caused by ice on the tracks!

What's happening in this country, its rapidly going down the plug-
hole.

Murderers and thugs stalk the streets with impunity, drug addicts and
teenage mums are victims and are the first in any state handout or
housing queue and those that go to work to keep this growing cesspit
funded are treated with seeming contempt as they are delayed by a
combination of H&S nutcases and opportunist excuses not to provide a
service.

It really is a sick joke.

On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:33:50 -0800, lawrence13 wrote:

A work colleague who lives in Whistable and commutes via SE Network Rail
to Dulwich SE London was five hours late today due to delays caused by
ice on the tracks!

A complete joke. I gave up getting to work today -- all trains cancelled
because of icy rails at Ashford International. Balmy here in Ramsgate all
day.

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writes:
A work colleague who lives in Whistable and commutes via SE Network
Rail to Dulwich SE London was five hours late today due to delays
caused by ice on the tracks!

What's happening in this country, its rapidly going down the plug-
hole.
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Electric trains using the third rail system have always struggled with
icy conditions. I can remember enormous problems in 1978-9, for
instance. It can produce some very impressive sparks. Not only is power
pick-up a problem, but I believe that the pick-up device has even been
known to become welded to the rail!

I've read somewhere that when the old Southern Railway decided on the
third rail as its electrification system they may have been encouraged
by the preponderance of mild winters at the time (the 1920s?).
--
John Hall
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless
information."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

wrote in news:b5f237a7-4337-49cd-ad34-b7080e6ff276@
33g2000yqm.googlegroups.com:

A work colleague who lives in Whistable and commutes via SE Network
Rail to Dulwich SE London was five hours late today due to delays
caused by ice on the tracks!

What's happening in this country, its rapidly going down the plug-
hole.

Murderers and thugs stalk the streets with impunity, drug addicts and
teenage mums are victims and are the first in any state handout or
housing queue and those that go to work to keep this growing cesspit
funded are treated with seeming contempt as they are delayed by a
combination of H&S nutcases and opportunist excuses not to provide a
service.

It really is a sick joke.

You missed the bit about the Met Office!

Apart from that, 9/10 - could have been straight from the Daily Mail
letters page!

Richard

On Mar 5, 10:06*pm, John Hall wrote:
In article
,*lawrenc writes:
A work colleague who lives in Whistable and commutes via SE Network
Rail to Dulwich SE London was five hours late today due to delays
caused by ice on the tracks!

What's happening in this country, its rapidly going down the plug-
hole.

snip

Electric trains using the third rail system have always struggled with
icy conditions. I can remember enormous problems in 1978-9, for
instance. It can produce some very impressive sparks. Not only is power
pick-up a problem, but I believe that the pick-up device has even been
known to become welded to the rail!

I've read somewhere that when the old Southern Railway decided on the
third rail as its electrification system they may have been encouraged
by the preponderance of mild winters at the time (the 1920s?).
--
John Hall
* * * * * *"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless
* * * * * * information."
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

The main reason for using the third rail is that it is much
cheaper to instal than overhead wires. The Oxted Line was electrified
as late as 1989. Prior to that it was diesel. It has now almost
reached the same level of reliabilty it had pre-1965, when it was
steam, and is quicker too, but not much.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

In message
,
writes
A work colleague who lives in Whistable and commutes via SE Network
Rail to Dulwich SE London was five hours late today due to delays
caused by ice on the tracks!

What's happening in this country, its rapidly going down the plug-
hole.

Murderers and thugs stalk the streets with impunity, drug addicts and
teenage mums are victims and are the first in any state handout or
housing queue and those that go to work to keep this growing cesspit
funded are treated with seeming contempt as they are delayed by a
combination of H&S nutcases and opportunist excuses not to provide a
service.

It really is a sick joke.


A sick joke? Look in the mirror Larry there'll be one staring back at
you.

What a sad gimp.
--


Jim

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On Mar 5, 10:06 pm, John Hall wrote:

The main reason for using the third rail is that it is much
cheaper to instal than overhead wires. The Oxted Line was electrified
as late as 1989. Prior to that it was diesel. It has now almost
reached the same level of reliabilty it had pre-1965, when it was
steam, and is quicker too, but not much.

I didnt know that Tudor. Is it electrified all the way to Uckfield and East
Grinstead?
Upper Warlingham used to be my local as a boy. The Steam train used to
struggle on some days getting out of Woldingham as I recall (with the
incline) and sometimes had to reverse out of Woldingham to go forwards
again!
I think we were the only Steam train still to go through East Croydon then.

Phil

On Mar 6, 9:11*pm, "Phil Layton" wrote:
wrote in message

...
On Mar 5, 10:06 pm, John Hall wrote:

* * * * * *The main reason for using the third rail is that it is much
cheaper to instal than overhead wires. *The Oxted Line was electrified
as late as 1989. *Prior to that it was diesel. *It has now almost
reached the same level of reliabilty it had pre-1965, when it was
steam, and is quicker too, but not much.

I didnt know that Tudor. Is it electrified all the way to Uckfield and East
Grinstead?
Upper Warlingham used *to be my local as a boy. The Steam train used to
struggle on some days getting out of Woldingham as I recall (with the
incline) and sometimes had to reverse out of Woldingham to go forwards
again!
I think we were the only Steam train still to go through East Croydon then.

On Mar 6, 1:51*am, Jim Kewley wrote:
In message
,
writes

A work colleague who lives in Whistable and commutes via SE Network
Rail to Dulwich SE London was five hours late today due to delays
caused by ice on the tracks!

What's happening in this country, its rapidly going down the plug-
hole.

Murderers and thugs stalk the streets with impunity, drug addicts and
teenage mums are victims and are the first in any state handout or
housing queue and those that go to work to keep this growing cesspit
funded are treated with seeming contempt as they are delayed by a
combination of H&S nutcases and opportunist excuses not to provide a
service.

It really is a sick joke.

A sick joke? *Look in the mirror Larry there'll be one staring back at
you.

What a sad gimp.
--

Jim

What a lefty tosser you are Jim. You deny all the evidence that falls
on your doorrmat every day, and turns up in your favourites on an
hourly basis. All the evidence, no matter how curtailed, is there
across the breadth of the country.

Just opposite to my building where I work in Dulwich, a man was shot
dead the Sunday before last. Just step over the body and deny the
truth. To ignore this daily carnage is a testamnet to ideologicall led
******** that is seemingly stalking our known world.
Please tell me why I should look in the mirror when clearly the other
tabloids are just as bad.

In message
,
writes

A sick joke? *Look in the mirror Larry there'll be one staring back at
you.

What a sad gimp.
--

Jim

What a lefty tosser you are Jim. You deny all the evidence that falls
on your doorrmat every day, and turns up in your favourites on an
hourly basis. All the evidence, no matter how curtailed, is there
across the breadth of the country.

Just opposite to my building where I work in Dulwich, a man was shot
dead the Sunday before last. Just step over the body and deny the
truth. To ignore this daily carnage is a testamnet to ideologicall led
******** that is seemingly stalking our known world.
Please tell me why I should look in the mirror when clearly the other
tabloids are just as bad.

Repeat above.

Does it ever dawn on you that maybe the simplistic doctrine you espouse
so enthusiastically has been tried for the last 30 years and so proven,
emphatically, to be a total failure?

No? Thought not.

Repeat again.

Look in the mirror.

--


Jim