It did seem a shame.
Did it actually never happen?
Probably left open by a fitter, happens quite regularly. They have never been used by Scotrail.
Yeah a very common occurrence for bikes to be turned away, especially on the HML during the busier months, even with the enhanced space onboard now. Bit of a wasted opportunity having to turn away business.
Do you know what the 5th coach is please?
I'm afraid I don't, but I can say it's one of 42009, 42047 or 42213. @43096 might be able to confirm the actual vehicle in question.
What's the ratio of 4-5 car sets now?
7 five-car
I’ll try and check it later when I have time. Busy with other HSTs today!
And there’s still another lot at Slateford to come, looks another 5 from what I saw earlier.
Sorry, should have read 22 'operational' sets.
That makes sense. For clarification are those 3 sets previously delivered ones that have gone for maintenance, or rather undelivered examples?
Correct!
I've never heard the term 'high-speed' brake before, and I think what you must be talking about is running with one E70 isolated (must be rear one), which from memory restricts max speed to 100mph, which would be fine other than the brake would respond a little more slowly.
So here is a question. So we take it that in 125mph service, the (GWR, LNER, EMR maintenance teams would have tried to anticipate these kind of failures by having a maintenance regime that would service/ repair/ replace parts before they became faulty to avoid services being cancelled? But because they are now on secondary services running at 80 to 90 mph max speed with limited 100 mph running, the maintenance regime is run it until it fails?
I think that’s a fair way to put it. I remember LNER running with one power car switched off on a London to Aberdeen service. It wasn’t ideal, but it still ran. I think if ScotRail ended up in that situation then the service would just be cancelled.
ScotRail runs HSTs on one powercar frequently.
Do they? I've had 1 in 6 years.
Yes. Have a look in the log (that is if, as a driver, you have access) and you’ll see.
In this case it ran the whole route on 1 power car. The only ones in Craigentinny were on maintenance so as you say it suffered horrendously on time and had to skip Inverkeithing and possibly even Kirkcaldy. I’m sure it was a Sunday it happened as the diagram only involved the set doing 1W11 from London to Aberdeen.
Also happened at least once for the Mon to Fri 1818 Aberdeen to Leeds in 2014 to 2016 (no idea which year). Skipped all stops between Aberdeen and Dundee as well.
Back in September 2019 I was waiting for a 2+4 HST to Edinburgh and one power car had failed. It was taken out of service and replaced with a pair of 158's. I was told at the time that was ScotRail policy not to run on 1 power car - which shocked me, as other operators would try to run a 125mph service with one PC. Maybe the glut of available or spare DMU's made it easier for SR whereas in the past on Intercity use, there was usually no replacement traction - so run it or cancel it.
I don't know who told you that but there is no such policy; they can and do run in service with one power car when necessary. There is a defined process to follow for Control, maintenance staff and drivers but it is there to be used.
