Hope everyone has a Happy Christmas
the blog of a computer science postgraduate
Monthly Archive for December, 2009
With all the horrible Snow and Ice about, and the so called freeze we are experiencing over in Britain. I read that alot of south coast trains were not running due to frozen electric rails. So many passangers were left stranded.
Trains between Ashford and Dover were suspended on Monday when cold weather disabled the electric rail.
Some commuters at London Victoria faced lengthy delays until Tornado – Britain’s first mainline steam engine in 50 years – offered them a lift.
They were taken home “in style”, said the Darlington-built engine’s owners.
Train services in Kent were hit hard by the freezing conditions at the start of the week.
Tornado, a £3m Peppercorn class A1 Pacific based at the National Railway Museum in York, was in the South East for one day, offering “Christmas meal” trips from London to Dover.
Its “Cathedrals Express” service, the last mainline journey in its first year of operations, was about to depart when staff heard about the stranded passengers.
About 100 people were offered free seats, according to Mark Allatt, chairman of The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust – the charity which built Tornado.
The wordpress theme k2, which i use to power this blog and all of my websites has just been updated to 1.0. I have just installed the upgrade on this blog and i am impressed with all the fixed bugs and all of the enhanced features, check out the release over at the k2 website.
Also its worth a note since wordpress is also now up to 2.9 release, the new feature of post thumbnails is very interesting, this article is worth a read.
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