Crews/trains where in wrong place following earlier fatality involving 1P30.
Yes, from my workplace we saw the whole sorry performance and the subsequent operations. We overlook the station and the line. Not a nice sight.
Crews/trains where in wrong place following earlier fatality involving 1P30.
Snowing heavily in crewe half hour ago. My coat had blobs of snow just from the walk to the train. Stafford however is lacking snow.
Yes, from my workplace we saw the whole sorry performance and the subsequent operations. We overlook the station and the line. Not a nice sight.
Job's gone seriously bad on the GEML. Multiple signal failures at the London end. Last time I looked there was one train on the East Side of LST.
Winter weather in winter shock!
(and of course the only reason why this is news is it just happens to be affecting SE England)
DE-icers running on the underground tonight, this is a statement not a question.
Oh what a surprise, another attempt to have a pop at people for the hideous crime of living in a certain part of the country. The tribal primitive nonsense that people come out with is really pathetic. :roll:
If he meant it very seriously I'd agree with you, but if it was what I expect, he was having a laugh - we do get time off from walking our whippets and eating black puddings to indulge ourselves in half-truth ironies, you know
Speak for yerself, I've got a 34 hour shift down't pit to get to, through 18 feet of snow!
In my days on the Scottish Region it was when the locomotives stuck.What's the maximum height of snow relative to the top of the rail above which services get suspended?
I know that these trains will be ones with sleet brushes and fluid to keep the current rails clean through sheer use and burning off the ice. What might be useful to explain is that they are NOT salt / gritting trains, as it is well known what effect salt has (in terms of corrosion) on steel rails and fastenings.
A good point to make is just what the effect on the line is of excessive use of salt on platforms (usually a good half inch thick in GEML land - far too much).
Railways are not roads.
This page may be of interest to you:What's the maximum height of snow relative to the top of the rail above which services get suspended?
Locos and units must be fitted with miniature snowploughs to operate in snow more than twelve inches deep, but other than that, as long as Network Rail have access to a snowplough in the vicinity then it seems that the railway can pretty much crack on. Though I do recall a report a few winters ago of the crew on a West Coast Railway operated snowplough working electing to turn back on one of the freight branches around Buxton when the drifts got higher than the cab windows.https://www.networkrail.co.uk/feeds/keeping-trains-moving-snow-ice/
•The first line of defence, before snow reaches 18 inches high, is the miniature snow plough (MSP). This fits to the underside of a locomotive at the front and can be adjusted according to the depth of snow. They are ideal for clearing a route.
•We also use Independent and Beilhack snow ploughs. The Beilhack is shorter in height than the Independent, giving the driver greater visibility over the plough.
•Two locomotives must be coupled up to use the Independent plough, due to its size. This is required operationally but also gives flexibility and resilience. Both Beilhack and Independent ploughs are stored at strategic locations and help to clear heavy snow, but aren’t deployed for avalanches, which could contain hidden rocks, ice and debris.
Yeah, there's some dramatic photos on the walls of the Bridge of Orchy Hotel showing a class 37 hauled passenger train trapped in drifts on the nearby West Highland line, sometime during the BR blue era. Big, heavy locomotives could generally bull their way through better than today's modern lightweight units, though I have seen a couple of impressive videos of 156s shooting snow left and right with their miniature snowploughs on Rannoch Moor in more recent times.In my days on the Scottish Region it was when the locomotives stuck.
Significant flooding between Berwick and Polegate has been reported. Line blocked.
1F64 was the only train to run between the two stations - at approximately 00:10 - after the flooding was reported. The down line was blocked for roughly 5 hours, whereas the up line hasn't seen a train since 19:00 yesterday evening!
I only went through that area about an hour before it all went wrong!
You are joking.....??....There seemed to be quite a lot of very wet snow last night, which settled to a depth of approximately 1-2cm.....!
Flooding from rain or the high tide?
They probably haven't been operated by TOC drivers since the old converted EPBs etc were retired a few years agoAre the de-icers run by the TOCs then?
One of the periodic reports from control earlier stated that performance is at 100% for one national passenger operator, with no issues to report. The railway keeps on rolling, while my better half ummed and ahhed about whether she would be able to get to work in the car through the one inch of snow we had this morning (cars all over the road, and off it too, apparently, despite such a pathetically thin coating).
They probably haven't been operated by TOC drivers since the old converted EPBs etc were retired a few years ago
Ok thanks, didn't realise they'd worked them in recent timesSWT drivers used to drive weedkilling MPVs on the North Downs Line circuits up until very recently. I haven't seen them on RHTTs recently so I'm not sure if they still have the knowledge or contracts.
If your using a Windows computer. Not so on a Mac, Unix or other machine or mobile or other smart device.Alt. 248 gives you degree symbol: °
If only the flooding had occurred on a strike day...Significant flooding between Berwick and Polegate has been reported. Line blocked.