[HPFGU-OTChatter] To our UK friends

[Kathryn]

I figured I could add to this thread since I've been watching it on News 24
and make a few minoe corrections. First it was a WAGN train not GNER
(irrelevent I know, but still). Second there are now 6 reported deaths a
dozen or so seriously injured and 70 walking wounded. The train didn't
explode - the explosion-like noise people heard was the fourth carriage
jumping in the air turning through 90 degrees, sliding along the platform
and demolishing the waiting room. It is currently sat off the ground with
one end on each platform. It's in Potter's Bar, btw. It also partially
demolished a bridge over the High Street so I guess it's a miracle only 6
people died. I shudder to think what the figure would have been if it had
happened during rush hour when the station would be packed instead of
lunchtime.
Frankly I'm sitting here being incredibly grateful that I'm a lazy sod since
I was supposed to be going home today and that might well have been my train
 As it was I hadn't even managed to leave Windsor when the news broke. Most
of my thoughts are with the families etc etc, but there is one, relatively
small, and incredibly selfish part of my brain, which is bemoaning the fact
that it's my birthday this weekend and I want to go home damn it. Instead I
m stuck here till someone can come and get me. However, things could be much
worse so I'll just have to stop being such a brat and get over it.

K
-------Original Message-------

From: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Date: 10 May 2002 14:21:31
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] To our UK friends

I am hoping that none of you have been struck in the train-accidnet 
which apparently has taken place in Hertfordshire, shortly North of 
London. As I am typing this, news are just breaking, but they are 
talking about "unconfirmed reports of deaths" and that the train 
exploded after the crash. The train apparently was a GNER Express-
service between London Kings Cross and King's Lynn, Norfolk. The 
crash occured two miles South of Hatfield, where four persons were 
killed in an October 2000 when a GNER Express came off the tracks. 

Best regards
Christian Stubø 


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