No Voyagers soon to do it, and not enough 805s.
A scarcity of MOMs full stop, I suspect...
You are assuming none of them are out of use.
Why? You aren't going to save a lot by singling it anyway.
The crossovers at Shap Summit and Harrison’s Sidings are certainly still in use, not sure about Clifton.
Very good point - I didn’t think of that! I’d very much hope some of them are at least, I’d assume the two I mentioned above where.
I’ve often wondered given their new Bi Modes why they can’t run one or 2 daily services London- Scotland via the S & C.
Mostly because they want to carry people
How much longer would that make the journey? If I was travelling wcml and saw the increased journey time, I would look to book a different service.
But at least it keeps people on the train rather than queuing for buses.
It’d retain route knowledge & give Appleby, Settle & Blackburn passengers at least 1 direct service each way between London & Scotland
I wonder if the line is actually fouled or is the kinematic envelope just compromised? The difference could be that between a collision and a close thing. The photos from NR appear (and only that) as if a train could 'scrape' by without anything damaging happening, but I could be wrong. Obviously there is a difference between knowlingly allowing trains past and a derailment coming to rest near a passing train. I don't know if there is any sort of compromise used for trap points where OHLE masts are nearby.
They ran a 57 down from Carlisle last night to check for clearance and it was determined that there was not sufficient clearance for trains to pass on the up line.
I know, but my point was about the safety suitability of the trap points (which had been questioned), in that the place where the freight came to rest would probably not have caused a damaging collision, but perhaps just a scrape or even a very close miss.
Reading your post again, that is not how it reads. You open by asking if the line is fouled, so interpret that as could they run things past.
The overall issue is that today's railway is hugely less flexible than in previous eras (with a far less than commensurate increase in safety) giving rise to railway-based alternative options being abandoned in favour of buses (or, often, a lack of them). This ranges from stuff like MOM shortages/lack of training to rolling stock shortages/lack of (paper) clearance/route knowledge, etc, etc.
A (slight but potentially life-saving) difference between the line being physically fouled to the extent that a very serious collision could have occurred or just the kinematic envelope being compromised. I had no doubt that trains would not be able to run past after the accident but wondered if, at the time of the accident, disaster would not have ensued (i.e. the trap points did at least most of their job).
Indeed Avanti social media are now lying, as they did in response to my tweet saying that the incident ‘affects the whole line’
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