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‘a coach becoming uncoupled on this train earlier today’

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talltim

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Yesterday the 17:43 Norwich service was announced as running late at Sheffield due to ‘a coach becoming uncoupled on this train earlier today’ looking at RTT it was 13 mins late leaving Liverpool and progressively lost time but with no big jumps that you would expect if something had happened to the train
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/ ... 2020-01-20
The inbound service https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C64597/2020-01-20/detailed
spent 25 minutes at Nottingham, ten longer than scheduled so I wonder if it was a case of having trouble coupling rather than anything more dramatic, but it seems a bit of an alarming announcement to make!
 
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Maybe someone with an axe to grind wanted to cause problems ? otherwise it seems an odd announcement to make
 

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I suspect they may have had trouble connecting the trains. It was made up of 2x 153 and a 156 so there might have been some difficulty connecting it all.
 

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It is;

However I’d have used this reason in Tyrell

“a fault occurring when detaching a part of this train”
 

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The problem is that 'operational difficulties' is an utterly useless phrase in making passengers feel they have had a reasonable explanation.

It is, though you would expect some safety-related stuff to get masked - you wouldn't expect "due to a train crash".
 

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TRUST showed the westbound service (1R78) having a unit swap at Nottingham from a 158 to a 156+153+153. Someone needs to get a grip of these dumbed down public explanations (or at least use the right ones) as the wording is often very poor and just makes the industry look stupid. I seem to recall commenting last week on a delay reason that said a train was late due to 'a speed restriction due to heat' (in January!) when in actual fact the delay code used in TRUST meant a blanket speed restriction due to wind or heat (and in this case was due to high winds).
 

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Yeah, as 3270 has said there was a set swap at Nottingham, though if I remember right there was some issue with coupling the units. Initially the delay was down to a set swap, then recoded to coupling fault, now it seems to have ended up down to the reason for the set swap, late running caused by a possession overrun at Cheadle Hulme at approx 05:20 that morning.
 

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I seem to recall commenting last week on a delay reason that said a train was late due to 'a speed restriction due to heat' (in January!) when in actual fact the delay code used in TRUST meant a blanket speed restriction due to wind or heat (and in this case was due to high winds).
A couple of years ago I was on a train delayed by a passenger being taken ill and the train having to wait for an ambulance to arrive. On arrival at the next station the automatic announcement said the delay was due to poor rail adhesion, this was in the middle of summer!
 

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Yesterday the 17:43 Norwich service was announced as running late at Sheffield due to ‘a coach becoming uncoupled on this train earlier today’ looking at RTT it was 13 mins late leaving Liverpool and progressively lost time but with no big jumps that you would expect if something had happened to the train
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/ ... 2020-01-20
The inbound service https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C64597/2020-01-20/detailed
spent 25 minutes at Nottingham, ten longer than scheduled so I wonder if it was a case of having trouble coupling rather than anything more dramatic, but it seems a bit of an alarming announcement to make!

Interestingly the reason on RTT has now changed to 'late arrival of crew from an inbound service'
 
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