| Topic: | Big traffic jams around South Ealing Tube station (Gas) | |
| Posted by: | John Murias | |
| Date/Time: | 24/09/16 23:32:00 |
| Big traffic jams around South Ealing Tube station (Gas) Gas seeping out through manhole covers with ventilation holes drilled all over them to disguise the smell have all been opened around South Ealing tube station from the pas couple of weeks as the Gas Bastards glue together Victorian cast iron gas mains that are over a hundred and twenty years old. The same place outside South Ealing tube station has an annual "check up" with a large hole blocking traffic on one side of the road and temporary signals. Old iron and steel pipes of this age adsord gas over the years and centuries making them brittle and subject to cracking under stress (like having 30 tonne juggernauts running over tham). Age, vibration. etc, has resulted in cracks and leaks all the way up the B455 from the Thames to Ealing Broadway. Several, giant and ancient gas pipes bring the has from the old Brentford gaswroks site into central Ealing. The route is punctuated with ventilated covers on telephone, CCTV, electric, etc. manhole covers. Anyone who wants to check our the weirness of the situation should stand next to the mobile telephone mast opposite the Ealing Park Tavern in South Ealing and smell the gas coming out of the blowers cooling the electrical installation. It is worth noting that the expoxy patched repairs that they attemp woulb be illegal on your domestic installation! |