The 25kv Group

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The current daily, or even twice daily, major failures of the overhead line electrification on the WCML are statistically so improbable that they cannot be attributed to normal maintenance errors.

Interestingly they are clustered at the southern end of the route.

Conspiracy theorists suggest that the cause may be sabotage!

Perhaps by a renegade group of DafT civil servants with the dual aim of discrediting electrification and justifying investment in the ludicrous dual powered IEP?

UPDATE: Tom from Blairwatch writes...

Nonsense.

It's Boris Johnson and his transport team campaigning to discredit those nasty bendy foreign trains preparatory to holding a competition to design a 21st century Britannia Pacific.

Perhaps the Tornado team need to clear their diaries...