Asbestos at South Ruislip

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I just saw on Chiltern Railways' web site that South Ruislip has asbestos and that LU has closed the station until further notice.

Anyone have any more information?

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TfL website:
Realtime travel news
Fri 03 Feb 2006 to Fri 03 Feb 2006
Central

SOUTH RUISLIP STATION: Closed due to emergency engineering work.

Local bus services are accepting tickets via any reasonable route. A shuttle taxi service is operating between South Ruislip and Ruislip Gardens.
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"Emergency engineering work" could be almost anything. I like the idea of a replacement TAXI service!

[DWS]

theonekea said:

I just saw on Chiltern Railways' web site that South Ruislip has asbestos and that LU has closed the station until further notice.

Anyone have any more information?

Contractors put a scaffold pole through part of the station building and found Brown Asbestos.

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dws said:

theonekea said:

I just saw on Chiltern Railways' web site that South Ruislip has asbestos and that LU has closed the station until further notice.

Anyone have any more information?

Contractors put a scaffold pole through part of the station building and found Brown Asbestos.

Ouch. What is the significance of the colour - are some colours more likely to become airborne?

[rayb]

There are 3 main variants, Brown, Blue and White. Each has a different composite, but they are all at best "dangerous".

I would expect that there is a significant amount of Asbestos still in many stations and other public places - if it's identified, corrctly maintained and undisturbed, it will be safe for years - but putting a scaffold pole through a sheet does not meet this criteria!

A full breakdown of which types of asbestos have which properties is available on the HSE site, but I'm not in the right place to have the full link available.

RayB

[Colin]

rayb said:

A full breakdown of which types of asbestos have which properties is available on the HSE site, but I'm not in the right place to have the full link available.

RayB

Is this the link to which you refer?
www.hse.gov.uk/asbestos/index.htm

[Chris M]

HSE: It is generally recognised that heavy doses of white asbestos are required to produce clinically significant lung fibrosis. However, the situation for blue and brown asbestos is more uncertain and fibrosis has been observed at much lower exposures"

:Wikipedia: There is some evidence that [white] asbestos is not actually harmful when inhaled. However it should be noted that there is also evidence that this type of asbestos is harmful, although not perhaps as harmful as other forms

Blue asbestos is commonly thought of as the most dangerous type of asbestos

From this it seems that brown asbestos is worse the white asbestos (the most common type) but not as bad as blue asbestos.