http://usvsth3m.com/post/74285062011/you-wont-believe-why-the-victoria-line-is-currently

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25862543

That’ll polish out

I think I may well have the perpetrators of said grout coming in to give a CPD talk at work next week. Might make for some interesting questions!

You can imagine the conversation, can’t you. “Dave, this hole’s taking ages to fill!” “Don’t worry, I’ll make up another batch – it’s probably just found a crack or something”

“Dave, why’s it all gone dark and quiet?”

Builders did something similar to a colleague of the Mrs who had his car in a carpark under a building being fitted out – quick drying cement and a Bentley don’t go well together

somebodies going to get a bollocking then

2 sugars please

loum – Member
2 sugars please

As it happens sugar works as a retarder in concrete (stops it going off), though it might take more than two in this case!

Hmmm… That’s not going to be easy to fix.
What’s the betting on Victoria Line Upgrade happening a little bit earlier than expected?

Glad I’m not in London Village!

TfL are utter clowns. I like the way they come out with the usual rubbish, “Our engineers are working hard….repairing yet another ****-up”.

That equipment also looks far too new for TfL though so I am suspicious – I’m sure they didn’t have plastic in the early 1900’s…..

Oh great. And yet another strike.

Angry tube user.

Grout!!!
That lot is ****!

Angry tube user.

Get your bloody bike out! I haven’t suffered with an overcrowded tube, strike or delay in London since the summer 🙂

honeybadgerx – Member

As it happens sugar works as a retarder in concrete (stops it going off), though it might take more than two in this case!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/victoria-line-cement-flooding-fixed-workers-used-sugar-to-stop-spilled-concrete-from-setting-9082206.html

@theflatboy

You heard it here first folks!

There’s a fairly level headed discussion about this on London Reconnections. I’m just amazed that after part filling what appears to be a late 60s early 70s IMR which controls Victoria to Brixton with grout they’ve managed to recover the service this morning.
These kinds of things happen on big infrastructure projects, particularly when dealing with 120 year old underground structures, what’s astounding is how quickly they’ve recovered from a fairly catastrophic event. To the signalling equipment.

Reminds me of one of my favourite Goon Show gags from Tales of Old Dartmoor:

Entry in prison diary. January twenty second: Convict Eccles fell into a bucket of wet cement and looks like becoming a hardened criminal.

a spokesman for the RMT union said “… proving once again that it’s directly-employed public sector staff who are needed to deal with this kind of emergency, making a nonsense of Boris Johnson’s Tube staff cuts plans.”

I didn’t know Boris had his own tube staff? Is that because he gets confused by escalators?

aP – Member

what’s astounding is how quickly they’ve recovered from a fairly catastrophic event. To the signalling equipment.

The “after” pictures are pretty amazing considering the “befores”.

Screeding needs some work.

This is mildly amusing…

It’s going to trip up a few games of mornington crescent.