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I have seen an email from the guard who was on that train at the time. Said guard sent in a rather detailed email of all the delays on that service after York.
The York extended dwell was indeed partly due to a lot of passengers trying to board coaches A and B only, when the doors at C and D...
Top and tail mode (rather a full set of 5 cars with a loco on each end) is already programmed into ASDO for rescue purposes. For example a loco attached to the DT dragging the failed train set.
Anyway, regardless the software issue is sorted now so back to normal from Monday. No sets out this...
Annual Leave. To put it simply we are in the high point of conductor and driver leave and this affects the new traction more at the moment.
There are quite a few conductors current on the Nova 3 who are on leave. Many of those still working don’t sign them yet.
As for the drivers, they need to...
Most of the issues are software related. Only one loco until recently had the correct (latest) software fitted hence why the others running are having recurring ETS faults. This is in motion to be updated on the other locos but needs CAF and DRS to sort it together.
Apart from that, looks like...