90044 Has Gone Bang

[VirginTrainFreak]

Apparently from someone at London Midland i know 90044 has caught fire at Berkhamsted and 66535 has gone to rescue it so that 2 Freightliner 90's out of service
Thought i should tell you
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90042
90044

 

[allticketspls]

From a contact at NR

4L89 loco on fire at Berkhamsted, slow lines blocked but Fire Brigade are on site and fire is out. MOM on site. Fast lines are open. OHLE team are at Berkhamsted as of 1100. A rescue loco (66535) is en route from Rugby, and a fitter is en route from Ipswich.

 

[The Planner]

Incident 289915 for those with TRUST. 700 minutes delay so far at 1136.

 

[Pumbaa]

Another fantastic day on ever reliable WC.

 

[VirginTrainFreak]

So is it passin rugby?
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So is it passin rugby?

 

[colchesterken]

was that the freightliner I see at Colchester at about 1700 double headed class 90s

 

[Tomonthetrain]

http://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/news/local/fire_closes_town_s_train_station_1_3160026

 

[87015]

About time these skoda crates were banned ala ECML teapots isn't it

 

[Schnellzug]

in the words of the vase of petunias, oh no not again!

 

[sprinterguy]

GEC/BRELs' late eighties electric technology really isn't standing up to the tests of time at the moment, what with reports that the class 91s reliability is beginning to drop again as well...

 

[Bittern]

It's almost like you can't make a joke in this place...

Wonder how long it'll be until NR bans them from the WCML for suffering from spontaneous combustion like they did Steam on the ECML.

 

[daikilo]

It's almost like you can't make a joke in this place...

Wonder how long it'll be until NR bans them from the WCML for suffering from spontaneous combustion like they did Steam on the ECML.

Anyone got the mean times/miles between failure for the 90s, and the81/82/83/84/85/86/87/91/92, on a say 3yr rolling average? Sorry, just interested in the statistic.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I am told it was a traction motor fire, not the innards, this time. So possibly 044 could be made good with a traction motor from 042? Make two bad locos into one good one?

 

[E&W Lucas]

About time these skoda crates were banned ala ECML teapots isn't it

"Teapots" successfully ran the network from inception to the late 1960's.

Late 1980's electric junk is struggling to make 25 years.

Which is the more successful technology?

 

[Nym]

This sucsessful technology is Silicon based control systems that are much more efficent bus move on quickly in technology terms so rarely get replaced like for like. And tend to degrade severely after 20 years of hard operation.

 

[The Planner]

2637 minutes (44 hours) delay currently, shouldn't go any higher than that.

 

[Schnellzug]

i think that should probably be enough to be going on with, don't you.

:-/