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Bletchley Derailment

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I too was on the sleeper, caught train from Preston to Manchester at 0606, 0715 from Manchester to Leeds and am now on 0815 Leeds to Kings X, I don't do the bus!!!
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34d, no point in making a big issue about it, staff were excellent on board, was not a poor show as you put it. Accidents happen.
 
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Well ticket acceptance is working well! I was booked on uber cheap LM 1st Advance to Stoke on Trent. Then onward to Manchester with another 1st Advance. Trotted over to King's Cross took 08.35 to Leeds and now enjoying a lovely East Coast breakfast with a few other 'displaced' West Coast travellers! Ticket check done with no 'pantomime' and all in all this disruption will lead to me getting to Manchester about and hour early! :D
 
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Yes, nothing to moan about. Staff on the sleeper and on the platform at Preston were very helpful and efficient.
I'm travelling on an ALR so not in a particular hurry anywhere today. I caught 6.23 Voyager to Chester to pass the time and then the WAG express south. Had a great breakfast on there and going to get off at Newport and head to Paddington
 
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merlodlliw said:
Ill take the Mods advice & not get chatty, however this link is about the most comprehensive from what I can see

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...ight-train-derails-on-west-coast-main-line.do

Bob
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well it sounds a bit wrong that article TBH!

Was the train not a light engine, class 90 rather than a diesel powered freight train!

EDIT - MKC staked up. 1 x LM 350 2 x Pendo, 2 x Voyager. I can imagine there will be lots of problems even whern things are cleared up!
 
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The entire freight train - a Freightliner operated by Virgin - came off the track but amazingly remained upright.
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Brilliant reporting there!
 
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Coming from south of MK it's a bit of a disaster getting there. I've given up and headed home to sit in the warm.
Virgin and LM are/were running shuttles to/from tring (VT reversing north of the station)

So for peeps heading to london they get a chance to bash a 390 vice there usual 350/321 :lol:
Very strange seeing people alight/board a pendolino at Berkhamsted!
 
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I'm due to travel to Liverpool on London Midland today (originally changing at Stafford). LM have said that Chiltern are accepting tickets from Marylebone to Brum, does anyone know what normally happens in this situation with super off-peaks? I've got one of those pre-purchased. I'll be travelling at lunchtime so within what LM class as supper off-peak, but don't want Chiltern to object...
 
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Say you were due to travel with London Midland on that ticket, they should accept it. I can imagine the Chiltern services will all be packed today.
 
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Hi there

I hope the driver is okay and his injuries are not bad.

On an interest note, why are London Midland only running shuttle services between Watford Junction and Tring and not London Euston, given the derailment is north of Tring. Is it due to number of trains they have.

Great that Virgin are running a shuttle service but I was wondering why they are not stopping at Harrow and Wealdstone. They are stopping at other stations towards Tring. I know the London Overground runs then that also stops at some of the other stations that the Virgin train is stopping at. So Virgin train might as well run fast to Watford Junction.

Ignoring all of that though, the most important thing is that the driver is ok and that they find out what caused it.
 
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infobleep said:
Ignoring all of that though, the most important thing is that the driver is ok and that they find out what caused it.
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I hope so too, the incident description said he had hand and unspecified back injuries so looks like it was a nasty jolt. Best wishes to the driver.
 
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infobleep said:
Hi there

I hope the driver is okay and his injuries are not bad.

On an interest note, why are London Midland only running shuttle services between Watford Junction and Tring and not London Euston, given the derailment is north of Tring. Is it due to number of trains they have.

Great that Virgin are running a shuttle service but I was wondering why they are not stopping at Harrow and Wealdstone. They are stopping at other stations towards Tring. I know the London Overground runs then that also stops at some of the other stations that the Virgin train is stopping at. So Virgin train might as well run fast to Watford Junction.

Ignoring all of that though, the most important thing is that the driver is ok and that they find out what caused it.
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Because LM have 3 trains south of MK!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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starrymarkb said:
I'm sure they'll emerge in time, if you are that desperate the hop in a car with your camera. Expect accredited media to be the only ones allowed near it..
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What, including on that bridge? NR have the authority to prohibit people going over that, do they, to avoid Bad Publicity?
 
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They could have knocked a diesel on the end of everything and run it via Nuneaton and Coventry into Euston via the Chilterns if they wanted to...

But condensing >10tph of pax onto 2 or maybe 3 at a push tph is a tincy bit of a challenge and would cause all mannor of havoc, this way everyone stays distributed over other operators.
 
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Schnellzug said:
How could one engine derailing manage to acheve all that?
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According to the control log, the loco was travelling on the up fast. This is located between the down fast and the down slow. Track damage has occured to the fast lines and OHLE dropper damage has occured to the neighbouring slow line.
 
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crewmeal said:
Perhaps they should get the voyagers running from the north via the Chiltern line. They did it 13 months ago.
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No paths available for this on a weekday timetable and really not a good day to start disrupting Chiltern services when they are going to be packed with extra people.
 
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might still be closed becuase it looks like the loco is off the road just after the bridge. I hope it didnt hit the bridge supports and i hope the driver is ok
 
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