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POWER FAILURE IN EAST ANGLIA

CliveS
What happened?   Why did the grid cascade trip and not isolate the immediate network?  Natgrid is NOT responsible for failure of British rail or hospital emergency supplies and MUST NOT fiddle the protection around trying to keep key areas/cities railways on!! 

Just shed the immediate area in this case Norfolk and Suffolk.  We do not need an expensive legal inquiry or someone to blame;  just reset the protection and shed the nearest area to the fault.  Sorry for the RANT.
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    Clive,

    I agree with much of what you say but I suspect the problem with the railways, or at least the problem with the trains not resetting and needing a someone to attend to restart the trains, was not something that had been foreseen. Whether it should have been foreseen is a different issue but I would suggest it is the designers of the trains who should have carried out the risk assessments, not the purchasers.

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    Clive,

    I agree with much of what you say but I suspect the problem with the railways, or at least the problem with the trains not resetting and needing a someone to attend to restart the trains, was not something that had been foreseen. Whether it should have been foreseen is a different issue but I would suggest it is the designers of the trains who should have carried out the risk assessments, not the purchasers.

    Alasdair
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