Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
I'm coming over to the idea that I might have misremembered the station i left from but its opening a can of worms now about how reliable my memory is for everything else.
What have the police blown up in North Greenwich Station?
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Proper break this time
Just face it... Research has been done - memory is very fallible.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
unlikely to blow up a bus load of kids in mosul. a shedload, yes, but not a bus load.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
It's theoretically possible - about the only possible route would involve the train from Marylebone continuing on the (usually freight train only) line beyond Aylesbury, turning on to the (again, freight only) line to Bletchley, then the Bletchley - Bedford line and re-joining the Midland Main Line there.
Railway operations are such that you can't just stick up 'diversion' signs and expect train drivers to follow them - train drivers require 'route knowledge' (as in knowing where signals, speed restrictions and so on are - and being able to know where they are in the dark), so if this did happen, it would have been a fairly major exercise with a fair amount of prior planning, not something done on the spur of the moment to deal with a short term problem.
It would also almost certainly have attracted the attention of railway enthusiasts with cameras who now have accounts on Flickr and the like - I have done a few searches for plausible combinations, and drawn a complete blank.
Memory is an odd thing - and there is a fair amount of discussion in historical academia about oral history (individual's memories rather than the 'official version of events') and the risk of recollections being blurred, particularly over one-off rather than every day events.
A few months ago, I got involved in an argument on a transport forum over whether there was a tram route through a particular chunk of London - someone was insistent that he travelled on a tram through a bit of London's west end in the 1930s. No published work (and there are a few) or any London Transport map of the era (and some people do have copies) that anyone else had showed any record of a tram route through that area, and some books record various proposals that were vetoed by combination of land-owners and borough councils in the west end. The person in question was still convinced that his memory of it carried more weight than any references we could quote.
I wouldn't worry about it too much...
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
No reason why you couldn't. Set the points and send the train on its way. Unless the train falls off the track, it'll get to where you want it to go eventually. Just get the train to go slowly to be on the safe side.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
It's certainly up there with CSI: Who Took My Yogurt From The Fridge (Even Though It Was Clearly Labelled With My Name)? and CSI: FFS Flush After You Do A Solid Is This How You Behave At Home No it Is Not.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
No reason why you couldn't. Set the points and send the train on its way. Unless the train falls off the track, it'll get to where you want it to go eventually. Just get the train to go slowly to be on the safe side.
suppose so, although would have thought it would be easier to divert to euston in that case - and to go to Nuneaton then across to Leicester rather than all the way to New Street (although might have been more capacity at Marylebone at the time)
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Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Yep, been there done that. You are absolutely convinced that you have it right, until someone proves that you are wrong.
Sasaferrato
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I did once wake up as the overnight train was going through Birmingham, which was something of a surprise, as it was Glasgow to London. Engineering works.
Sasaferrato
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Starry Wisdom
Do not go there, it is the path to madness.
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Starry Wisdom
oh don't talk tosh Police Professional :: News :: Terror suspect held over device found at stationBack on subject. I've heard an actual device was discovered and this has been D noticed. Cannot say more
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
I wasnt talking tosh. Genuinely overheard rumour. I didn't say it was true.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
by spreading a rumour you were talking tosh. especially reprehensible as a quick search of the interweb reveals what's going on. no d notice arsery. i didn't realise you were so easily gulled by people who don't know what they're on about.
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
Whatever
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
Actually it came from someone I consider to be a credible source but I'm not going to reveal who. Maybe I should have checked but I'm tired and stressed out and not in a place where I can easily Google things right now. Plus I'm not perfect like PM.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
you are when you're rested, chuck
andysays
Love and solidarity
Maybe at the very least you should consider just how credible your "source" really is when it comes to the subject of D-notices.
Even the BBC has been reporting the story this afternoon
Counter-terrorism arrest over North Greenwich Tube device
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Went through North Greenwich earlier, just around midnight, and it was closed due to a lack of staff 
By the time we'd got to Canning Town it was open again
By the time we'd got to Canning Town it was open again
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
I think my information was correct, albeit I was late to share: "either a device or something similar enough to a device to cause police to take it seriously. D notice served on the day to prevent this from being reported." Turns out it was something that resembled a device that a passenger picked up and handed to the driver."
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Memory isn't reliable, whatever lawyers and the like would have us believe. It's really easy to "re-program" your memory accidentally.
likesfish
You can't park here sir
Csi mount pleasant and their failure to break the great flying boot theft was possibly more pathetic.
( hint as an interrogation technqiue the spill the beans and you can go back to what you were doing otherwise its a night in the cells doesnt really work when the alternative to the cells is a windswept trench in west falklands
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not-bono-ever
meh
Damon Smith guilty of planting ball-bearing Tube bomb - BBC News
The bloke was utterly wrecked by the look of things
The bloke was utterly wrecked by the look of things
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