"Joe" wrote in message
...
Eh? You're having a laugh !

Joe

"Paul C" wrote in message
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Wrong Kind of Pressure Disrupts Trains

By Peter Woodman, Transport Correspondent, PA News


Rush-hour rail passengers were treated to a new excuse for broken
trains today - the wrong kind of atmospheric pressure.

A sharp rise in atmospheric pressure caused havoc with the fine
workings of Electrostar 357 trains used on the Essex Coast to London
services run by the c2c company.

Eight of the trains lost power, causing severe delays to journeys
into
and out of London's Fenchurch Street station.

A c2c spokesman explained: "Oil pressure plays a very important part
in the running of the engines on these trains and this pressure is
determined by atmospheric pressure.

"The atmospheric pressure in the c2c train area this morning was
more
than twice what it was yesterday and this led to an airlock which,
in
turn, led to the falling down of the pantograph which collects power
from the overhead wires."

He went on: "We had been working with our engineers to introduce a
modification to avoid this kind of problem, but it has not been
installed yet."


.... I've posted the gist of this into uk.railway: lets see how they
respond to this. Sounds most peculiar seeing as the weather situation
was fairly 'bog-standard' and pantograph technology has been around for
.... 100 years?

Martin.

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