By candle light Mrs Margaret Hosteland serves beer to Mr W J Cox in the London Bar at St Pancras Station during a blackout at the London rail terminus. 18/10/04: Britain could face a winter of power blackouts and price rises because of a 'looming crisis' in the industry, one of the country's biggest trade unions warned. There was a 'real possibility' of blackouts in large parts of the country because of serious problems in generating capacity, said Amicus.