On May 25, 2005, at 10:40 AM, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Apparently there was a car on fire in Bromley, which caused a huge explosion (prob. LPG tank) at about the same time as the power cut. There were bits of burning rubber flung far and wide. There are some power pylons round there somewhere, perhaps they got hit with something?
That's basically what today's Press said, although I seem to recall they wrote that "a car exploded" near the Bromley substation.
High-voltage power systems tend to try auto-reconnecting a few minutes after a fault occurs, under the assumption that whatever caused the fault in the first place was probably blown to bits by the fault current. In this case I'm curious to know just how the fault occurred in the first place.
Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
