![]() That more reserved passenger was the chart-topping singer James Blunt, who does know what he’s talking about. A fellow traveller declined to describe the scene as a war zone. One passenger, quoted on social media, said the train evacuation and walk in darkness to the nearby Westbourne Park station was like a wartime experience. I had the pain of experiencing it at first hand, both as a customer and as a colleague looking to support others in a testing circumstance. It wasn’t pleasant and I had the benefit of being with a great crew on a train with auxiliary power.” You’re (not so) Beautiful is the Blunt response “We let down thousands of passengers after a hugely disruptive incident just outside of Paddington station. Calm, patient, even supportive”, said one passenger, who just happened to be Andrew Haines, the chief executive of Network Rail, Britain’s infrastructure agency, and the man at the helm of the transition team, aiming to manage the move over to a body with wider responsibility for both track and trains, the much anticipated Great British Railways. “Firstly, the vast majority of customers were utterly brilliant. Andrew Haines is the chief executive of Network Rail, and was caught up in the chaos of Thursday night On the same day, widespread industrial action hit the north of England – but that’s not London, so all the media focus was on the capital’s calamity. This was however an undoubted public relations train wreck for the industry. Fury and frustration by the train load for sure, but there were no injuries nor fatalities among the hundreds trapped on board stranded trains, nor among the tens of thousands, abandoned on draughty platforms from Penzance, Plymouth and Port Talbot, to Patchway, Pangborne and Paddington, or indeed, Heathrow Express passengers, missing their flights. ![]() ![]() Thursday’s dewiring in London was probably the worst publicity the beleaguered British railway network could have feared. Oh, and it would probably be a bad idea to do it when the chief executive of Network Rail is on the train. Also on the cast is Michelle Fairley as Marian Wallace, and it's another stellar outing from the actress perhaps best known as Catelyn Stark in Game of Thrones.If you are going to pull down the wires above the tracks on the approach to Paddington station, you probably don’t want to do it on a December day when traffic is building up for Christmas, and the evening commuters are getting ready for the run home. He's played by Joe Cole, who you may recognize from Peaky Blinders - despite the London-setting, it's not the former West Ham United footballer. The story takes off as crime lord Finn Wallace (Colm Meaney) is shot dead under mysterious circumstances, causing the network of alliances between London’s underworld to be be ruptured.Īmidst the turmoil, Wallace’s heir Sean sets out to avenge his father and mentor, whatever the cost. This week, that means it's episode 5 airing on Sky - and it has been lauded by critics as the best in the series, so we know you won't want to miss it.Ĭreated by The Raid director Gareth Evans and his cinematography partner Matt Flannery, this big-budget Sky/HBO Cinemax co-production is far from the straight-to-video fare we've come to expect from British gangster films. The show is set to air in the US on Cinemax later in the year. ![]() All 9 episodes of Gangs of London were made available to watch on demand in the UK on 23 April via Sky Atlantic - meaning you can watch them for FREE with a Now TV trial.
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