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To: Smiling Bob who wrote (6196)	8/28/2003 2:38:19 PM
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Full impact hasn't made it across the pond yet. Thursday August 28, 07:27 PM Chaos as London hit by power cuts LONDON (Reuters) - Power cuts have hit transport services across London, causing travel chaos for thousands who had to abandon trains and take to the streets. Street lights went out in scenes reminiscent of the blackout that hit North America earlier this month. A British Transport Police spokesman said some of London's mainline stations were closed on Thursday. "Waterloo, Victoria, Charing Cross, London Bridge are all closed because there are no trains and no power." "There are trains trapped in Underground tunnels. But we have police at most locations." No injuries have been reported so far. "It's obviously a wider problem than a local power problem." A spokesman for the London underground railway system told Reuters: "It appears to be affecting the majority of the London underground. "Trains in stations are being evacuated. We're trying to get alternative power sources started," he added. He said a majority of the network was affected and blamed a National Grid power failure. But a spokesman for London Energy, which supplies the capital, said: "We have no information about this at the moment." Earlier this month, one of the largest power outages in North American history blacked out New York and other major U.S. and Canadian cities overnight, disrupting life for millions of people and trapping thousands in lifts and on crowded subways. uk.news.yahoo.com