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Channel 4 news were showing the city area as far a Victoria station as out of power ....tubes are buggered , but thats not much of a surprise anyway....Im glad I'm home...arf arf

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Channel 4 news ...Ken livingston has stated that its a massive failure on the national grid (but not terrorist related) . People trapped in the tubes ,now being removed . Even if power is restored the transport network will be out for hours...........

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LONDON, England -- Passengers were trapped on the London Underground as a power outage struck the city during evening rush hour Thursday.

"We have lost supplies to large parts of south London in the last few minutes as a result of a National Grid failure supply in the south London area," a spokesman for electricity network operator EDF Energy told Britain's Press Association.

"It's difficult to predict how long this is going to take. National Grid has got to get the circuit back."

A spokesman for London Underground said 60 percent of the subway system had been halted by the outage, including the majority of services in central London. The failure happened around 6:15 p.m.

By 7:30 p.m., Britain's energy regular Ofgem said power was returning to parts of London.

"There was a fault on a transformer system. There was loss of power for 34 minutes, but London Electricity has re-energised the system and it's back on," Reuters quoted an Ofgen spokesman as saying.

Thousands of people took to the streets as dusk approached. Street lights in some parts of London were not working in scenes reminiscent of the blackout that hit North America earlier this month.

London Underground said the power failure was having a "serious" impact on the whole of the city's metro network. Rail services from major stations including Victoria, London Bridge and Waterloo were also affected.

"There has been a National Grid failure which has affected the underground. At the moment we are assessing the impact of that, but it is having a serious impact on the whole system at the moment," a spokesman for the London Underground said.

He added: "It's also having an affect on some of our buildings. Certainly quite a lot of the network appears to be affected."

"There will be travelers underground. I don't know the extent of that yet. It's at the end of rush hour, the peak period, so it's a busy time."

An Underground spokesman told Reuters: "Trains in stations are being evacuated. We're trying to get alternative power sources started."

A spokesman for British Transport Police said the power cut had affected all major railway stations in south London.

"There is no power in a lot of stations and no trains running in the whole of south London," he said. "All major stations -- Victoria, London Bridge, Waterloo -- are affected and all main train lines have stopped. Some stations are in darkness and others have emergency lighting."

Euston Station was evacuated because of overcrowding, apparently because passengers could not get on the Underground.

Power is now starting to come back on.............

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LONDON (Reuters) - Power returned to parts of London hit by a blackout for just over half an hour on Thursday, Britain's energy regulator Ofgem said.

The cut hit transport services across the British capital, causing travel chaos for thousands who had to abandon trains and take to the streets. Many were trapped in underground trains.

"There was a fault on a transformer system. There was loss of power for 34 minutes, but London Electricity has re-energized the system and it's back on," a spokesman said.

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All this bloody fuss about London, anyone would think it's the only place in the country. A few weeks ago we had a blackout in the Burntwood area of South Staffordshire. The power went off on the Thursday evening at about 11-PM. We were back on at about 3-20 am, although some areas were told that it would take much longer. At lunch time on the Friday the power went down again. This time we were offline for the rest of that day. At 11-30 PM on the Friday a huge mobile generator was parked in the next road, alongside a small sub station, and power was restored at about 3-AM again. Due to the massive load on this generator, and the fact that several more were dotted about the area and needed constant topping up with diesel, the power was on and off until the Sunday evening. The cause turned out to be a major fire in the switch room of one of the four largest sub stations in the country. In excess of 45,000 homes were affected. Did we kick up a fuss? Of course not, I bet that most of you never even heard about it. All this bloody fuss over London wimps is sickening. The country has about 65,000,000 people in it, most of whom live well away from mucky London. Londoners seem to think that the world revolves around them.

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Think its been enough time for a baby boom in 9 months

Thank god I don't have those worries ;) :rolleyes:

with the miracles of modern science artist, who knows!!!!

Don't you just think that is the most stupid thing - all those old grannies wanting to start a new family?

Most of tham already have kids too. Wonder what they think! :ph34r:

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It's the kind of place that's OK for a quick visit, but to actually live or work there?????, no thanks, when you can live close to Cannock Chase and the North Midland moors. Beside who would want 'er indoors at Buck House for a neighbour?

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Don't you just think that is the most stupid thing - all those old grannies wanting to start a new family?

i think that sick sums it up better than stupid!!!

would never have had you down as a granny artist, a great granny perhaps but a granny......

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Andsome
In excess of 45,000 homes were affected

and from The Guardian

Early reports suggested that 250,000 people were affected by the blackout, including tens of thousands of tube passengers stuck in tunnels as trains broke down.

A slight difference, at least you were close to home andsome.

45000 homes, 250000 people, there may not be much difference in the actual number of people. My point is that London is considered worthy of national news coverage for a relatively short power cut, when most of the population live elsewhere and don't give a toss.

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Do people north of Watford need electricity anyway......?

I thought that they all lived in caves.....

Where the hell is Watford???? Regarding caves, there are some very nice caves in The Midlands.

watford is a very nice?! town that marks the most northern point of england, anything further north is both inconsequential and pointless....

please do not show any disrespect to watford especially when Luton is just up the road and a far easier target!

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