Until these trains could be restarted, they blocked lines out of Farringdon and King's Cross, trapping other services. Blue-light escorts were provided where possible to get engineers to the stranded GTR trains to reset the software.

Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by dirty words. It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.

distasteful language

Point is we weren't a pack of mediafen barbarians, we were real, live, young litfans (and hardly any of us read any fantasy, were SF fans); but we were from the burbs and we were unfannish.