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suicide

Compound complications

September 17, 2009

A fallen tree, which should have been removed long before, causes serious delays and, a day later, a suicide on the line means a day spent working from home.

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Tube troubles

January 25, 2009

Coming home from the Royal Albert Hall on Friday evening should have been easy: Piccadilly Line to Holborn and then Central to Liverpool Street and on to the over-ground. Except it wasn’t. The Central Line was closed from Marble Arch to Leytonstone because of a ‘passenger under a Central Line train at Liverpool Street’. Code for ’suicide’.

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Slow going homeward

January 13, 2009

So last night’s trains were delayed by a person being struck by a train at Manor Park. Whether that was a suicide (attempted or successful – who knows) or someone being clipped as it passed the platform, I don’t know. What I do know is that it delayed the trains leaving Liverpool Street.

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