How a 90-second power outage sparked chaos for rail commuters
The incident raised questions about how a disrupted power supply can have such a widespread impact.
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"if one thing goes wrong, it can wipe out, as we saw, quite a lot of the network."
— Christian Wolmar , Academic
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The incident raised questions about how a disrupted power supply can have such a widespread impact.
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