Thursday, November 11, 2010
Witch puts a stop to London Tube as if by magic
In the early hours of Halloween, I bet that some Northern Line Tube passengers were probably wishing they’d just travelled by car.
A witch’s hat had been thrown onto the rails by some drunken sorceress and it caused a power failure. What black magic is this? You may be thinking.
In fact, disappointingly as always, there was a perfectly boring explanation for the event.
The hat contained some metal, no doubt in the rim, and the belief is that when it touched the 630-volt rail at Chalk Farm station, a power failure occurred.
It stalled four trains in total, and passengers on the Northern line, many dressed up for the night of Halloween festivities, had to get out of their train, which had stopped between stations, and walk through the tunnel to get to the safety of Kentish Town station after the Tube train came to a halt.
A public relations executive from Archway, said that although Tube staff and British Transport Police were of great help to the passengers, “It didn't help that every five minutes you'd bump into a mummy, a zombie or a man with a bullet through his head.”
No, I can’t imagine that did much for the nerves.
What a way to spend the first hours of Halloween – in a dark tunnel full of monsters!
In fact, disappointingly as always, there was a perfectly boring explanation for the event.
The hat contained some metal, no doubt in the rim, and the belief is that when it touched the 630-volt rail at Chalk Farm station, a power failure occurred.
It stalled four trains in total, and passengers on the Northern line, many dressed up for the night of Halloween festivities, had to get out of their train, which had stopped between stations, and walk through the tunnel to get to the safety of Kentish Town station after the Tube train came to a halt.
A public relations executive from Archway, said that although Tube staff and British Transport Police were of great help to the passengers, “It didn't help that every five minutes you'd bump into a mummy, a zombie or a man with a bullet through his head.”
No, I can’t imagine that did much for the nerves.
What a way to spend the first hours of Halloween – in a dark tunnel full of monsters!
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