[WillowTheWhisp]

I was just listening to the interview on the radio this morning where the spokesman said that, although they hadn't ruled out other possibilities, it looks like a problem with the points. The interviewer was trying to get him to admit that they don't do as thorough an inspection these days as they used to, but he kind of wangled out of it.

I remember years ago travelling on a test run of one of the early APTs which tilted, coming up from London to Preston. I was just waiting for my usual train, as you do, when a chap came up to me and asked if I'd be willing to try out this new fangled creation and I'd get home a lot quicker. It seemed really strange at the time, the only way the passengers knew they were tilting was by looking outside at the scenery. A lot of us spilled drinks because we were holding them 'level' which of course wasn't level at all! We were all given a questionaire to fill in about what we thought of it. Some of the older passengers decided it would never catch on.