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Thursday February 8th and Sydenham awoke to the
forecast snowfall. Around 3" which lasted into midmorning.
This is Kirkdale roundabout at 9am. Almost deserted.
Clearly many motorists decided to stay home.
The gritters had kept the main roads reasonably clear.
All the buses appeared to be running so there was no excuse not to be at
work.
While the main roads were being kept clear by the
gritting lorries - there was none to be seen on the pavements. Here you see two
commuters terrified at corner to Station Approach. The fast drop in two
directions is dangerous in good weather. In snow and slush it was impassible.
We had to use the road.
Would there be any trains? Concientious commuters might
check the railway website. Sadly they seem to have the wrong sort of snow on
the servers. It seems that they don't expect users to use it. Oh - and that
link to www.nationalrail.co.uk/badweather was yesterday's forecast that we
could have snow today. I don't think we need to know that ... the departure
board wasn't working either so it was a bit of a gamble.
Yippee - all the trains appeared to be running. I guess
that is better then website working and the trains being halted because there
were too many passangers. Meanwhile those left in Sydenham might feel it was
like a very quiet Sunday morning.
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