Services this morning have been cancelled or severely delayed in both directions (more so towards Leeds) because of an uncoupled freight train.
As far as I can work out it might be this train http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/H60899/2016/04/06/advanced
I have just gone past and it looks like the decoupling has occurred between wagons around half way down the train. the train is standing just to the Huddersfield side of Slaithwaite.
Is this an unusual thing to happen? Seems odd that it has got this far in its journey before the problem occurred. Presumably that means something had broken rather than human error?
As far as I can work out it might be this train http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/H60899/2016/04/06/advanced
I have just gone past and it looks like the decoupling has occurred between wagons around half way down the train. the train is standing just to the Huddersfield side of Slaithwaite.
Is this an unusual thing to happen? Seems odd that it has got this far in its journey before the problem occurred. Presumably that means something had broken rather than human error?