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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Following a train accident in Edinburgh, the trade unions [=RMT=] and [=ASLEF=] announce their intentions to hold a strike that puts the railways out of action over safety concerns. However, as well meaning as this action might have been, it results in [[DisasterDominoes setting a chain of events in motion that directly leads to the deaths of 87 people and the injury of many others.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Following a train accident in Edinburgh, the trade unions [=RMT=] and [=ASLEF=] announce their intentions to hold a strike that puts the railways out of action over safety concerns. However, as well meaning as this action might have been, it results in [[DisasterDominoes setting a chain of events in motion that directly leads to the deaths of 87 people and the injury of many others.]]]] Subverted a bit, as one interviewee points out that the strike only added 5% more drivers on the road; everything else was a knock-on effect of a system already running at capacity.
* OhCrap: After two planes collide over Heathrow, air traffic control has all flights diverted away from the airport. The junior transport minister, who'd been in Edinburgh all day, notices his secretary has this reaction and worries they don't have enough fuel to make it to the next airport over. It's the first time the minister realizes just how serious the situation is.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Several of the interviewees lost children in the disaster.
* OhCrap: After two planes collide over Heathrow, air traffic control has all flights diverted away from the airport. The junior transport minister, who'd been in Edinburgh all day, notices his secretary has this reaction and worries they don't have enough fuel to make it to the next airport over. It's the first time the minister realizes just how serious the situation is.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Several of the interviewees lost children in the disaster.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: One of the reasons why the traffic gets so bad is an international friendly between England and Turkey at Old Trafford. However, international friendlies do not take place during the Christmas period (when even Premier League sides are known to play up to four times in ten days), and the two sides would not play a friendly so soon after facing each other in the qualifiers for Euro 2004. Also, at that time international fixtures weren't played on Friday nights.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: One of the reasons why the traffic gets so bad is an international friendly between England and Turkey at Old Trafford. However, international friendlies do not take place during the Christmas period (when even Premier League sides are known to play up to four times in ten days), and the two sides would not play a friendly so soon after facing each other in the qualifiers for Euro 2004. Also, at that time international fixtures weren't played on Friday nights.nights outside of major tournaments (which, the [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup 2022 World Cup]] aside, are never played in December).
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The Grinch is specifically for characters who hate Christmas.
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* TheGrinch: Dramatically deconstructed with the rail unions. While we don't really see the union's side of the story, it is quite clear that - intentionally or otherwise - the rail workers' union and their decision to go on strike was the trigger for this documentary.
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* BittersweetEnding: On the bitter side, the failures of Britain's transport network are revealed; 20 December sees the aftermath of the plane collision over London and the nation needing to clear hundreds of thousands of abandoned cars off the motorways, which will undoubtedly take weeks. Many people also tragically died thanks to the nationwide gridlock and the crash, including children. However, the death toll still remains remarkably low given the scale of the disaster, and the overworked air traffic controllers are cleared of manslaughter charges.
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* PostApocalypticTrafficJam: While it's not the apocalypse, the roads leading into London end up looking like this by 20 December, with almost a million abandoned cars clogging the M25.
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* SleazyPolitician: The Transport Minister has shades of this at first, hoping blame will fall on the unions for the chaos of 19 December and that people will turn to his party as a result. The collision at Heathrow gets him to rethink that perspective and even accepts his part of the blame for the whole thing.
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A {{mockumentary}} first aired by [[Creator/TheBBC BBC2]] in 2003, focusing on the possible breakdown of Britain's transport system, and how tragedy can ensue from the fallout.
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A {{mockumentary}} first aired by [[Creator/TheBBC BBC2]] in 2003, focusing on the possible breakdown of Britain's transport system, and how tragedy can ensue in [[DisasterDominoes a long chain of events]] from the fallout.
fallout of a single incident.
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* DeathFromAbove: Following the mid-air collision, pieces of both planes fall on Hounslow, flattening streets and setting areas of the town ablaze.
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* DeathFromAbove: Following the mid-air collision, pieces of both planes fall on the destroyed aircraft and burning aviation fuel rain down across the neighbouring district of Hounslow, flattening streets and setting areas great swathes of the town area ablaze.
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* HopeSpot: One poor woman spends hours trying to contact the authorities to learn whether her husband was on the plane that crashed, and learns that his flight was a completely different one... only to receive a call moments afterwards informing her that he had transferred onto the one that crashed after all.
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* HopeSpot: One poor woman woman, the wife of a pilot for British Airways, spends hours trying to contact the authorities to learn whether her husband was on the plane that crashed, and learns that his flight was a completely different one... only to receive a call moments afterwards informing her that he had transferred onto the one that crashed after all.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Following a train accident in Edinburgh, the trade unions [=RMT=] and [=ASLEF=] announce their intentions to hold a strike that puts the railways out of action over safety concerns. However, as well meaning as this action might have been, it results in [[DisasterDominoes setting a chain of events in motion that directly leads to the deaths of 87 people and the injury of many others.]]
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The catalyst for the rail strike was a train wreck caused by sloppy maintenance and cost-cutting by the new private consortium that had taken over after rail privatisation, much like the one at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_rail_crash Hatfield]] a few years earlier.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The catalyst for the rail strike was a train wreck caused by sloppy maintenance and cost-cutting by the new private consortium that had taken over after rail privatisation, much like the one at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_rail_crash Hatfield]] a few years earlier. The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potters_Bar_rail_accidents#2002 2002 Potters Bar accident]], also the result of poor maintenance, is also mentioned as being one of the events that led up to [=RMT=] and [=ASLEF=] initiating the strikes that set everything in motion.
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A {{mockumentary}} aired by Creator/TheBBC in 2003, focusing on the possible breakdown of Britain's transport system, and how tragedy can ensue from the fallout.
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A {{mockumentary}} first aired by Creator/TheBBC [[Creator/TheBBC BBC2]] in 2003, focusing on the possible breakdown of Britain's transport system, and how tragedy can ensue from the fallout.
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The events unfold in chronological order as seen from various people involved, including a monitoring officer for one of the motorways, several people stranded in the traffic jams, and a politician from the transport ministry. Additional drama is supplied by mock news reports describing the unfolding events (e.g., Sky News, Channel 4 News, France's [=TF1=]), along with real-life footage (from a train crash site, a speech by Prime Minister Tony Blair, and various stock films of British traffic congestion) and cameo appearances by various well-known British personalities.
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The events unfold in chronological order as seen from various people involved, including a monitoring officer for one of the motorways, several people stranded in the traffic jams, and a politician from the transport ministry. Additional drama is supplied by mock news reports describing the unfolding events (e.g., Sky News, Channel 4 News, France's [=TF1=]), along with real-life footage (from a train crash site, a speech by Prime then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, UsefulNotes/TonyBlair, and various stock archive films of British traffic congestion) and cameo appearances by various well-known British personalities.
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The story starts from early December, when a rail strike is called by the railway union due to an accident at Waverley railway station in Edinburgh. The rest of the film focuses on how the events manifest on a particular day (19 December). The rail strike forces more cargo and people on the roads than usual, with the Christmas rush not helping matters. An accident occurs on the M25 motorway outside of London, with traffic rapidly backing up. Due to other mismanagements within the traffic and police authorities, what was supposed to be a usual annoyance for motorists results in [[DisasterDominoes the dominoes starting to tip, the traffic jam extending to the whole of London,]] [[FromBadToWorse and eventually grinding the whole of Britain to a halt.]]
The events unfold in chronological order, as presented from various people involved, including a monitoring officer for one of the motorways, several people stranded in the traffic jams, and a politician from the transport ministry. Drama is further added with news footage which describes the unfolding events (e.g., Sky News, Channel 4 News, France's [=TF1=]), real-life footage (from a train crash site, a speech by Prime Minister Tony Blair, and various stock footage of British traffic congestion), and several cameo roles by well-known British personalities.
The events unfold in chronological order, as presented from various people involved, including a monitoring officer for one of the motorways, several people stranded in the traffic jams, and a politician from the transport ministry. Drama is further added with news footage which describes the unfolding events (e.g., Sky News, Channel 4 News, France's [=TF1=]), real-life footage (from a train crash site, a speech by Prime Minister Tony Blair, and various stock footage of British traffic congestion), and several cameo roles by well-known British personalities.
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The story starts from early December, when a rail strike is called by the railway union unions due to an accident at Waverley railway station Station in Edinburgh. The rest of the film focuses on how the subsequent events manifest on a particular day (19 December). The rail strike forces more cargo and people on onto the roads than usual, with the Christmas rush not helping matters. An Then an accident occurs takes place on the M25 motorway outside of London, with traffic rapidly backing up. Due to other mismanagements within the traffic and police authorities, what was supposed to be a usual moderate annoyance for motorists results in [[DisasterDominoes the dominoes starting to tip, extending the traffic jam extending to the whole of London,]] London]] [[FromBadToWorse and eventually grinding the whole of Britain to a halt.]]
The events unfold in chronologicalorder, order as presented seen from various people involved, including a monitoring officer for one of the motorways, several people stranded in the traffic jams, and a politician from the transport ministry. Drama Additional drama is further added with supplied by mock news footage which describes reports describing the unfolding events (e.g., Sky News, Channel 4 News, France's [=TF1=]), along with real-life footage (from a train crash site, a speech by Prime Minister Tony Blair, and various stock footage films of British traffic congestion), congestion) and several cameo roles appearances by various well-known British personalities.personalities.
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* RecycledSoundtrack: The film's soundtrack includes excerpts from the scores to ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'', ''Film/{{Heat}}'', ''Film/RequiemForADream'', and ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears''.
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* RecycledSoundtrack: The film's soundtrack includes excerpts from the scores to ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'', ''Film/{{Heat}}'', ''Film/RequiemForADream'', ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'', and ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears''.
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** One poor woman spends hours trying to contact the authorities to learn whether her husband was on the plane that crashed, and learns that his flight was a completely different one... only to receive a call moments afterwards informing her that he had transferred onto the one that crashed after all.
** One poor woman spends hours trying to contact the authorities to learn whether her husband was on the plane that crashed, and learns that his flight was a completely different one... only to receive a call moments afterwards informing her that he had transferred onto the one that crashed after all.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Many motorists, after making it out of traffic they'd been stuck in for hours, speed away as fast as they can, especially those who have deadlines they need to meet, but many of them end up crashing and clogging up free-flowing arteries. One particular example is a tanker driver who speeds up to meet his client, only for his truck to jackknife and crash, spilling chemicals everywhere and forcing the M25 to be closed.
