Large UXB in Bromley-by-Bow

On 6 Jun, 09:39, Mizter T <mizte...@> wrote:
> Rather than saying the bomb had started ticketing


Was there a previous tendency of users of the adjacent lines to avoid
ticketed travel? :)

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gordon

In message
<eb77fbbc-ef0e-42a2-8ae4-92e06d11aba5@d45g2000hsc..com>, at
01:31:15 on Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Mizter T <mizter.t@> remarked:
>One wonders just how many more unexploded wartime bombs might be found
>on the Olympic site, in particular in the many waterways that run
>through the site.

They won't find any more on land if they've finished digging up the site
and are now building on top.

I wonder if any pile-drivers have ever set off a UXB, though.

The ones in the water will be found if there are any additional dredging
works.
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Roland Perry

On 6 Jun, 09:58, Roland Perry <rol...@perry.co.uk> wrote:

> In message
> <eb77fbbc-ef0e-42a2-8ae4-92e06d11a...@d45g2000hsc..com>, at
> 01:31:15 on Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Mizter T <mizte...@> remarked:
>
> >One wonders just how many more unexploded wartime bombs might be found
> >on the Olympic site, in particular in the many waterways that run
> >through the site.
>
> They won't find any more on land if they've finished digging up the site
> and are now building on top.

Er, whilst I'm not sure on the latest I think the site has now been
cleared but I'm wouldn't think that necessarily precludes more digging
(for foundations etc).

>
> I wonder if any pile-drivers have ever set off a UXB, though.
>
> The ones in the water will be found if there are any additional dredging
> works.

I think there's a far bit more work on the waterways both within and
without the Olympic Park site to be done (note that this bomb is
actually outside the boundary of the Park).

On 6 Jun, 09:47, "tshan...@" <tshan...@> wrote:

> On 6 Jun, 09:39, Mizter T <mizte...@> wrote:
>
> > Rather than saying the bomb had started ticketing
>
> Was there a previous tendency of users of the adjacent lines to avoid
> ticketed travel? :)
>

Ha! Er... yes!

In message
<fe410cb7-2e93-42aa-a869-af8d7124c143@m73g2000hsh..com>, at
02:47:06 on Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Mizter T <mizter.t@> remarked:

>> >One wonders just how many more unexploded wartime bombs might be found
>> >on the Olympic site, in particular in the many waterways that run
>> >through the site.
>>
>> They won't find any more on land if they've finished digging up the site
>> and are now building on top.
>
>Er, whilst I'm not sure on the latest I think the site has now been
>cleared

So they probably won't fin any more on that land

> but I'm wouldn't think that necessarily precludes more digging
>(for foundations etc).

But they might on that land.

>> I wonder if any pile-drivers have ever set off a UXB, though.
>>
>> The ones in the water will be found if there are any additional dredging
>> works.
>
>I think there's a far bit more work on the waterways both within and
>without the Olympic Park site to be done (note that this bomb is
>actually outside the boundary of the Park).

--
Roland Perry

In message
<eb77fbbc-ef0e-42a2-8ae4-92e06d11aba5@d45g2000hsc..com>,
Mizter T <mizter.t@> writes
>
>A policeman on the local television news yesterday was stressing just
>how potentially dangerous this bomb was, a

Are they though ? I understand that TFL must take public safety as
their first priority, but is a 60 year old bomb that's been in the mud
all that time a credible risk ?

I think that trains stopped running and London City airport was
disrupted for a rusty canister full of harmless sludge !

I'd love to know what the military really think about this.

--
Edward Cowling "Must Go - Eldrad Must Live !!"

"Edward Cowling London UK" <edward@genghis0.> wrote in message
news:dhlSDYBZNlSIFw6u@genghis0....

> I'd love to know what the military really think about this.

A deep respect I should imagine!

Survival being a basic human need.

Paul

In message <g2dmcu$be1$1@aioe.org>, Paul Stevenson
<paul.pdsteveo@phonecoop.coop> writes
>
>"Edward Cowling London UK" <edward@genghis0.> wrote in
>message news:dhlSDYBZNlSIFw6u@genghis0....
>
>> I'd love to know what the military really think about this.
>
>A deep respect I should imagine!
>
>Survival being a basic human need.
>
It's a serious point that all that disruption could have probably been
cured by carting it off on a truck to the nearest dump :-)

--
Edward Cowling "Must Go - Eldrad Must Live !!"

In message <7153a7ab4f%Rail@greywall.>, Graeme Wall
<Rail@greywall.> writes
>
>The military think it is a very dangerous object. There are around a dozen
>people killed every year by WW1 munitions dug up on the Western Front in
>Northern France and Belgium and the sludge in those rusty canisters is 90
>years old.
>

Really ? I'd love to see the source of info ? There was a TV programme
a few years ago which showed French farmers regularly ploughing up all
sorts of WW1 ordnance and selling the decent stuff.

No one seemed to think it was any threat !

--
Edward Cowling "Must Go - Eldrad Must Live !!"

"Edward Cowling London UK" <edward@genghis0.> wrote
> >
> It's a serious point that all that disruption could have probably been
> cured by carting it off on a truck to the nearest dump :-)
>
But much less than the disruption which would have been caused if someone
had tried that and it went off, doing major damage to the LUL and c2c lines,
as well as to a lot of property over a wide area.

Peter