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Gangland tv show online2/13/2024 The short winter daylight meant it was already pitch dark when the wires came down. “Nearly four hours after we got on”, she said “we’re getting off the Elizabeth Line, woohoo!” possibly not the most ringing endorsement for which Transport for London would have been hoping. Counting down the hours to rescue from another of those busy cross-London trains was popular TV presenter and celebrity mathematician Rachel Riley, co-host of the long-running language and numbers panel quiz show: Countdown. The service has already come bottom of the reliability statistics, mainly due to its remarkable popularity leading to delays at stations. The Elizabeth Line was the unfortunate service most depreciated by the dewiring. Singer James Blunt mercifully was without his guitar while trapped on board an Elizabeth Line train Out of peanuts and wine”, he commented on his famously self-depreciating social media feeds. “Been stuck somewhere outside Paddington for close to four hours now. The former British Army Captain, who claims to have been shot at more often that gangland rapper Fifty Cent, was a passenger on an Elizabeth Line train, caught up in the bedlam. That more reserved passenger was the chart-topping singer James Blunt, who does know what he’s talking about. A fellow traveller declined to describe the scene as a war zone. One passenger, quoted on social media, said the train evacuation and walk in darkness to the nearby Westbourne Park station was like a wartime experience. I had the pain of experiencing it at first hand, both as a customer and as a colleague looking to support others in a testing circumstance. It wasn’t pleasant and I had the benefit of being with a great crew on a train with auxiliary power.” You’re (not so) Beautiful is the Blunt response “We let down thousands of passengers after a hugely disruptive incident just outside of Paddington station. Calm, patient, even supportive”, said one passenger, who just happened to be Andrew Haines, the chief executive of Network Rail, Britain’s infrastructure agency, and the man at the helm of the transition team, aiming to manage the move over to a body with wider responsibility for both track and trains, the much anticipated Great British Railways. “Firstly, the vast majority of customers were utterly brilliant. Andrew Haines is the chief executive of Network Rail, and was caught up in the chaos of Thursday night On the same day, widespread industrial action hit the north of England – but that’s not London, so all the media focus was on the capital’s calamity. This was however an undoubted public relations train wreck for the industry. Fury and frustration by the train load for sure, but there were no injuries nor fatalities among the hundreds trapped on board stranded trains, nor among the tens of thousands, abandoned on draughty platforms from Penzance, Plymouth and Port Talbot, to Patchway, Pangborne and Paddington, or indeed, Heathrow Express passengers, missing their flights. Thursday’s dewiring in London was probably the worst publicity the beleaguered British railway network could have feared. Oh, and it would probably be a bad idea to do it when the chief executive of Network Rail is on the train. If you are going to pull down the wires above the tracks on the approach to Paddington station, you probably don’t want to do it on a December day when traffic is building up for Christmas, and the evening commuters are getting ready for the run home.
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