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Never ready for it... ...nation at a standstill... ...Government should do something about it... ...More old cobblers. Get over it.

This is the real story of the event.

Rail traffic was reportedly at a standstill in Kent. Not so. One train got through with little problem. Of course it did have an advantage in as much as it was being pulled by a steam engine. It has all the advantages in this kind of weather. It's got big wheels, it's heavy, and it gets very hot. It does have another advantage in that it can haul far more carriages than the diesel and electric competition, but unfortunately they're in short supply so it could only carry what its available carriages could hold and most seats were booked in advance, but still, a lot of people who thought they weren't getting home for Christmas managed it thanks to technology ditched by British Rail decades ago.

There's a moral there somewhere.