Late-running Highland Sleeper

[calc7]

Just had the up Highland Sleeper zoom past platform 4 at MKC whilst I was waiting for the 1102 to Euston. Anyone know the reason for the massive delay. It appears to have departed Falkirk on time.

 

[142094]

Train fault just outside Haymarket - looks to be running about 4 hours late.

 

[ralphchadkirk]

1M16 running 233 late at Tring.

 

[87015]

Just had the up Highland Sleeper zoom past platform 4 at MKC whilst I was waiting for the 1102 to Euston. Anyone know the reason for the massive delay. It appears to have departed Falkirk on time.

90039 decided somewhere between Slateford and Midcalder that it had had enough and didn't want to go any further. Usual skoda quality, a mere four hours late at Carlisle...

 

[calc7]

Interesting - well my SuperVoyager has presumably caught up with it as we're going slower than usual through Kings Langley.

 

[paul1609]

Just had the up Highland Sleeper zoom past platform 4 at MKC whilst I was waiting for the 1102 to Euston. Anyone know the reason for the massive delay. It appears to have departed Falkirk on time.

Thats not massive delays by Highland Sleeper Standards my records are: Southbound being woken at Garelochead when the train should have been passing Watford Junction after the first 37 caught fire and the rescue 37 failed. Northbound woken in a loop somewhere near Shap when we should have been approaching Crianlarich due to overrunning engineering works. On both occasions i slept really well I suspect because the train spent most of the night stationary!

 

[dk1]

90039 decided somewhere between Slateford and Midcalder that it had had enough and didn't want to go any further. Usual skoda quality, a mere four hours late at Carlisle...

Perhaps we should hire them one of our East Anglian machines. Well maybe not 90009

 

[calc7]

Thats not massive delays by Highland Sleeper Standards my records are: Southbound being woken at Garelochead when the train should have been passing Watford Junction after the first 37 caught fire and the rescue 37 failed. Northbound woken in a loop somewhere near Shap when we should have been approaching Crianlarich due to overrunning engineering works. On both occasions i slept really well I suspect because the train spent most of the night stationary!

Agreed it's not massively late, I was just very surprised to see it at 11am after I'd already gone to MK, had 2 meetings and was en route back to London!