swt_passenger
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Yes, the wrong type of bogies, terminated at Andover, in 2015. It was reported in this thread started by @bnmWas there an example of an HST being diverted to Waterloo during engineering works at Paddington, and it was the wrong 'type' of HST? I recall that some HSTs have some under-carriage gubbins which could foul the third rail, and others don't, and it was one of those with the under-carriage gubbins which was being used. Or was it just that GWR had to be careful as to which HSTs were used on the diversion route, so no error was made?
HST's on 3rd rail lines.
I was on the 0748 Plymouth to London Waterloo FGW HST on Good Friday 2015. We were held outside Andover for a fair while with the TM announcing there was a 'train fault'. That 'train fault' was allowing a HST set into traffic to Waterloo with one of the Mk3 carriages in the consist on Long...
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