The first is responsible for London’s distribution network while the second is for the national high voltage electricity transmission network. Both admit the second fire was a cable fault caused by “small contained fire” at the substation during the power failure yesterday afternoon on our tube service.  

They insist these are two separate incidents involving equipment belonging to two different asset owners though they are still investigating the cause of the previous damage to the substation. Quite frankly, local residents will not be reassured of their safety, if they deal with this serious matter in such a bureaucratic manner, suggesting the two incidents are not related. Unfortunately they say when asked for further details, that it is not for public information, as the privatisation of Electricity distributors made sure they are not subject to freedom of information (FOI) requests! So we will have to await the London Fire Service Report on the matter of both fires and their links.

No wonder people lose faith in those running our infrastructure in this country!