>> As I said earlier the real question is why it disrupted the railways to the
>> extent that it did. Several reports though suggest passengers opening doors and walking on the
>> track might have been a factor.
>>
Looking at the outage map, there wasn't a power cut at home - confirmed by the Mrs and all clocks showing the correct time, but the railway signalling in the area did go down - hence my late post last night - didn't get home until the early hours then couldn't sleep - due to train lag!
I guess trains out of position - missing their arrival slots etc. it all has a knock on effect and the authorities are going to be cautious about sending a train down the line to an area with no signals - and as you pointed out, potential people on the tracks.
The authorities are denying a cyber attack.
"Ofgem has demanded an "urgent detailed report" into what went wrong.
It said it could take enforcement action, including a fine,."
If it were an unforeseen event or even foreseen but not planned for because the chances of it re-occurring are so rare then a fine is of little use and legislating for National Grid to correct the situation will just push costs up unnecessarily. Things go wrong. You can't legislate for everything.
Reminds me of two very different steel mills, one in Kent which was dangerous to the extent that I walked off site and another in Wales where the management admitted that there would be fatalities at the plant but did everything reasonably possible to prevent accidents and the culture in the business demonstrated that. Fining the firm after an accident would serve limited purpose and yet they were fined regularly. The only way not to have fatalities would be not to employ any staff and the jobs go abroad to countries that couldn't care less about employee safety.
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