Ah, sorry.I should probably have put a smiley on that, I wasn't being serious.
Ah, sorry.I should probably have put a smiley on that, I wasn't being serious.
Whose to say that Agility Trains are not having to produce a report to ORR?Safety checks are safety checks and have to be done irrespective of the travel impact caused but when there is an event that has UK wide impact i would expect someone like Chris Heaton-Harris or Grant Shapps to make sure there is an acknowledgement of the severity of the inconvenience being caused and ensure that how its happened is understood and published as well as reviewing how the industry manages such events.
When National Grid had a major outage a few years ago the then Secretary of State for BEIS (department responsible for electricity supplies) Andréa Leadsom came on the media and advised National Grid were doing a report for OFGEM to review. So here Agility Trains aka Hitachi need to do likewise for ORR to review and TOCs need to scrutinised as to have they have managed the situation. This isn't for today but should be teed up next week.
Because its exactly the same as it was built back then. Brunel well known for continuous welded rail.These trains weren't meant for the old victorian infrastructure.
I believe there wereRoger Ford has just been on R4 and said he believes it is the yaw damper fault identified last month.
4000 brackets to check, and difficult to repair.
Odd that we have a similar problem with CAF Civity units at the same time.
I seem to recall 158's had a similar ProblemRoger Ford has just been on R4 and said he believes it is the yaw damper fault identified last month.
4000 brackets to check, and difficult to repair.
Odd that we have a similar problem with CAF Civity units at the same time.
Didn't 158s have a similar problem with dampers. Sounds like the structural analysis on this area seems less than robust.The potential issue is with welds on a different part though it's in the same general vicinity as the yaw damper mounting.
No problem!Ah, sorry.
Who knows point is nobody from the industry or its paymaster has shown there face yet. If it wasn't for the various elections going on the media would be all over it. It is what it is and a senior political figure acknowledging the situation wouldn't make it any better but it would at least show some empathy with those affected.Whose to say that Agility Trains are not having to produce a report to ORR?
Which, as luck would have it, was closed this weekend any way because of planned engineering work.The only station I can think of that can't be reached from London by rail alternative routes (generally the North & Midlands via Midland Mainline and changing or via Birmingham, Wales via Birmingham and changing once or twice, West County via Birmingham & Cross Country, or on local trains) is Pewsey.
And as it happens, Pewsey is planned bus replacements today anyway.The only station I can think of that can't be reached from London by rail alternative routes (generally the North & Midlands via Midland Mainline and changing or via Birmingham, Wales via Birmingham and changing once or twice, West County via Birmingham & Cross Country, or on local trains) is Pewsey.
Sky News just reported that LNER had informed them that the faults were discovered overnight. Yeah right!If they've known about it for a month, I wonder why they've stopped the show today ?
You do realise that, in the real world, this is just a few trains affected, across the UK. Given that the vast majority of the population will be driving cars, or simply staying at home, I doubt it will affect even 1% of the population.Safety checks are safety checks and have to be done irrespective of the travel impact caused but when there is an event that has UK wide impact i would expect someone like Chris Heaton-Harris or Grant Shapps to make sure there is an acknowledgement of the severity of the inconvenience being caused and ensure that how its happened is understood and published as well as reviewing how the industry manages such events.
When National Grid had a major outage a few years ago the then Secretary of State for BEIS (department responsible for electricity supplies) Andréa Leadsom came on the media and advised National Grid were doing a report for OFGEM to review. So here Agility Trains aka Hitachi need to do likewise for ORR to review and TOCs need to scrutinised as to have they have managed the situation. This isn't for today but should be teed up next week.
The only station I can think of that can't be reached from London by rail alternative routes (generally the North & Midlands via Midland Mainline and changing or via Birmingham, Wales via Birmingham and changing once or twice, West County via Birmingham & Cross Country, or on local trains) is Pewsey.
Sky News just reported that LNER had informed them that the faults were discovered overnight. Yeah right!
Perhaps people are rather busy addressing the problem?... point is nobody from the industry or its paymaster has shown there face yet.
I had assumed that TPE would be using class 185s to substitute. May not have the spare units available.TPE are running an hourly replacement bus between York and Newcastle, stopping at Darlington, Durham and Chester-le-Street. Chester-le-Street actually benefits from this, as today's replacement bus is twice as frequent as the usual train service!
I think it's been mentioned upthread that a Turbo has been sent along the Cotswold Line - 1W05 down and 1P66 back up. There might have also been an IET along the line? But apart from that, those stations haven't seen many trains. Combe, Finstock, and Ascott weren't expecting services today anyway though.How about everything between Hanborough and Pershore...
(though if GWR do run a Turbo in place of an IET then that might solve that one)
The government. Corrected that for you.Well, the TOCs will buy good quality .
The Midland Mainline going to be busy.
Well I thought this was funny even if the Britain-haters/Hitachi fanboys/humourless forum members missed the irony.Can't beat proper British engineering. Hitachi should stick to transistor radios
So just a normal day during disruption.The reality is, LNER Twitter have been downright rude and evasive, with some of their responses to customers wanting to know more information.
That's a good effort under the circumstances.There's an hourly service running between both Edinburgh and Leeds to London this morning with possibly more services this afternoon.