Think the Fire Service get more calls than staff do to attend a failure or incident !
So they send a fitter, to have a look, of course that fitter will not be just down the road, so we are looking at 60 mins, maybe 90 for him to arrive, so there is 2 hours minimum before you start Detraining is looked at from
With the wires down, and on an electric, you will be caught between a rock and a hard place ! running a diesel unit up alongside and transferring is by far the best and safest way of doing things, and should be done more often than it is now, although of course not always possible if both lines are blocked.
Couplings.. the joys of 21st Century railways, buying in stock from various makers dotted around all over the world.... bring back screw couplings and buck-eye couplings ! Gone are the days when ANY train could assist ANY train !
Things could be sped up a little, but would mean staff sitting around doing nothing for most of the time, as failures are still rare, even if they don't seem to be! but when you consider over 22,000 trains run everyday in the UK....although of course you don't think of that when it's your train
Its not just the Railway of course, you can name any Company and the 'wait time' will be somewhat long ! BT / Sky for BB or phone faults, AA / RAC you can wait a couple of hours or more ! Electrician / Plumber, unless you want to pay 'extra' then it can be over a week !
Not really. Most trains that stop do so for a fairly innocuous reason.
The point to start arranging for the possibility of an evacuation is probably the point that any kind of external intervention (e.g. fitters, S&T technicians) is seen as necessary.
As in - we'll send the fitters to see if they can fix it, but at the same time start planning how we will evacuate if they are unsuccessful, so when they notify that they will require a few hours to fix the plan is already in place and the staff identified, so it's just a case of "pressing go".
So they send a fitter, to have a look, of course that fitter will not be just down the road, so we are looking at 60 mins, maybe 90 for him to arrive, so there is 2 hours minimum before you start Detraining is looked at from
My daughter in law was stuck on a 333 outside Leeds for over 4 hours the other Monday (there is a thread on this somewhere) when the wires came down. Rescued by a pacer and gangplanks eventually from the adjacent track. Totally unacceptable to me.
I suspect the problem is staff do not practice various scenarios enough or not at all so when something goes wrong it's not like clockwork as it should be.
Not helped by probably the worst feature of privatisation I.e. every class of train seem to have different couplings.
Incredibly I hear Northerns new CAF train won't couple to there CAF built 333s.
K
With the wires down, and on an electric, you will be caught between a rock and a hard place ! running a diesel unit up alongside and transferring is by far the best and safest way of doing things, and should be done more often than it is now, although of course not always possible if both lines are blocked.
Couplings.. the joys of 21st Century railways, buying in stock from various makers dotted around all over the world.... bring back screw couplings and buck-eye couplings ! Gone are the days when ANY train could assist ANY train !
Things could be sped up a little, but would mean staff sitting around doing nothing for most of the time, as failures are still rare, even if they don't seem to be! but when you consider over 22,000 trains run everyday in the UK....although of course you don't think of that when it's your train
Its not just the Railway of course, you can name any Company and the 'wait time' will be somewhat long ! BT / Sky for BB or phone faults, AA / RAC you can wait a couple of hours or more ! Electrician / Plumber, unless you want to pay 'extra' then it can be over a week !