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Mikey C
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There’s been a large scale emergency service/Network Rail/TPE multi agency training exercise in Standedge Tunnel on Thursday. Whereabouts did you see this?
fgwrich
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It would appear to have been part of this training exercise:
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I'm intrigued as to what the scenario was there, that would involve a road vehicle underneath the Pennines... a hijacked bus taken into the tunnel? Seems a bit far-fetched... and a Stagecoach bus at that, so the hijackers must have come all the way from Manchester or Barnsley! 
jonesy3001
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22434, a former stagecoach MAN ALX300.
I'm intrigued as to what the scenario was there, that would involve a road vehicle underneath the Pennines... a hijacked bus taken into the tunnel? Seems a bit far-fetched... and a Stagecoach bus at that, so the hijackers must have come all the way from Manchester or Barnsley!
The bus was ‘the train’ in this scenario
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My post was slightly tongue-in-cheek of course. However if as you say the bus was a "stand-in" for a train in the scenario it does raise some questions...
Presuming that this exercise would have involved the use of cutting gear, would I be correct in assuming that cutting into a modern railway vehicle in the event of an accident (a scenario which I hope we never have to face), would be significantly tougher than cutting into a bus that is beyond its useful life?
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The exercise was more designed to practise the working together of all agencies and conditions working in a tunnel, rather than the specifics of cutting into a train, which can be simulated off track and without the need for multi agency collaboration. It was far from true to life, of course, e.g. including multiple staff handovers to allow maximum training, but would you rather they didn’t practise until there was a suitable modern vehicle available to destroy in a tunnel?
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