Problems have included:
- A fatal plane crash on 2nd January, near Stafford, which destroyed overhead power lines and caused service cancellations for a few days
- The power cables coming down near Watford Junction on 4th January, again causing a total suspension of services
- Another set of power cables coming down on 6th January, somewhere near Wembley, causing a total line closure, and
- Further power cable problems (this time in Warwickshire) today, 8th January.
Now, the first of these incidents was obviously a tragic accident, but the rest do seem to call into question the nature of engineering work and/ or maintenance of the West Coast Main Line infrastructure.
According to reports, Network Rail have set up a major enquiry into the events of this week. That is good to note - in my line of work a Post Incident Review would be instigated for events that would have a far smaller operational or financial cost.
I do not know what staff turnover is like within either Network Rail or its subcontractors, but I do wonder whether the person who has trained people how to tie up the power cables actually knows how to do it?
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Indeed... bit like "the blind leading the blind"...
Doesn't it make you wonder that we are supposed to be a so-called "1st World country" and yet somewhere like India, deemed a "third World" country seems able to move millions of people around by train every day with little porblem...?
Do you think it's all the "red tape" we have now with regard to people actually "doing" anything? A has to ask B, who has to clear it through C, but only after D has had a meeting with E and F about it etc etc etc.
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