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Major Delays following 2 Broken trains near Berwick/broken down train near York 01/10

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And Waverley is gummed up now with two Northbound trains waiting outside with no platforms available.

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Thunderbird attached - and it would appear 1E14 is now finally on its way.

Apparently 1E17 has been stood at Grantshouse, not that much further north, with a fuel leak from one power car. Not sure how serious the leak is, or how it may additionally impact services.
 
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No movement evident at 1600. Those in 1E14 have been in that train for four hours now. Must be getting cosy in there.

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Quite a queue outside Berwick at 1645.

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Any idea why 1S16 has been held Northbound at Berwick for an hour (it's the London to Inverness HST Chieftain)?
 
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1E17 will be eventually terminated at York and run to Neville Hill.
 
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There was an hour over run at Dunbar which had everything up the creek prior to the breakdown.
 
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father_jack said:
There was an hour over run at Dunbar which had everything up the creek prior to the breakdown.
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some of those trains should have be in kings cross by now ready to go back north. wonder if VTEC will run out of trains this evening

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Several services cancelled this evening

18:03 London Kings Cross to Harrogate
18:27 London Kings Cross to Newcastle
18:30 Edinburgh to London Kings Cross
19:08 London Kings Cross to Lincoln
19:30 London Kings Cross to Newcastle
20:00 London Kings Cross to Newcastle
21:00 Edinburgh to Newcastle

20:00 Edinburgh to Leeds is expected to be leaving around 1hr late
 
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I'm generally loathe to reproduce something like this but the world and it's dog has seen it so here goes. A mess of epic proportions.

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Following a broken down train between Dunbar and Berwick-Upon-Tweed the Southbound line has now reopened.

Impact:
Train services running through these stations are returning to normal but some services may still be cancelled or delayed by up to 120 minutes. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

Customer Advice:
Virgin Trains East Coast are conveying passengers via any reasonable route until further notice. Arrangements have been made for CrossCountry rail tickets to be accepted for these journeys. Mutual ticket acceptance is in place for Virgin Trains East Coast tickets to also be accepted on CrossCountry services.
ScotRail are conveying passengers between Edinburgh and Glasgow Central in both directions until further notice. Arrangements have been made for CrossCountry rail tickets to be accepted for these journeys.
ScotRail are conveying passengers between Edinburgh and Glasgow Queen Street in both directions until further notice. Arrangements have been made for CrossCountry rail tickets to be accepted for these journeys.
Virgin Trains are conveying passengers between Glasgow Central and Birmingham New Street in both directions until further notice. Arrangements have been made for CrossCountry rail tickets to be accepted for these journeys.

Customers are able to travel from Edinburgh via Glasgow Central / Glasgow Queen Street and the West Coast Main Line for onward travel connections at Birmingham New Street.

Arrangements have been made for CrossCountry tickets to be accepted on these routes on ScotRail and Virgin Trains West Coast services.

Internal Information:

19:23 - Code Red concluded 19:15. Services, however, still running with severe disruption.

19:21 - Multiple VTEC services stoof at NCL without drivers, causing severe congestion in the vicinity.

19:05 - No further update.

18:52 - No further update.

18:36 - Agreement reached that customers may travel tomorrow on tickets for today if required.

18:33 - No further updates.

18:18 - No further updates.

18:03 - No further updates.

17:45 - southbound services are now moving albeit extremely slowly - there is no clear explanation why but we believe this is due to loadings of passengers heading to Newcastle United v Liverpool (16:30 k/o) who have now missed the match and are alighting at Berwick to either go to the town or abandon their journeys and head back north.

17:25 - 1E15 / 1S16 have finally departed Berwick at 17:21 / 17:25 respectively.

17:10 - 1E14 clear of main line, 1E15 and 1S16 standing in Berwick (crew changes). All other traffic now moving south.

16:50 - 1E14 now detrained and moving into Tweedmouth loop. Block lifted on southbound services leaving Edinburgh.

16:30 - 1E14 will be terminated at Berwick, detrained and looped at Tweedmouth to permit 1E96 and 1E15 into Berwick. 1S16 stands at Berwick on Down line awaiting guard from 1E15.

16:15 - VTEC/NR confirm 1E14 with rescue loco attached is now on the move towards Berwick.

16:10 - No further update at this time from NR/VTEC. Numerous alterations to CrossCountry services for service recovery

15:45 - VTEC control advise rescue loco is attached to failure and has overcome the interlocking fault. Service building up air and will depart shortly

15:35 - Rescue vehicle has entered section to assist failure.

15:15 - Edinburgh IECC Shift Manager advises that VTEC 1E14 has declared a failure at 1503hrs and is placing protection. 1Z99 rescue loco at Berwick ready to run bang road to 1E14.

15:00 - No further updates available at this time, other than rescue loco - if required - is now visible at Berwick on CCF

14:45 - Ticket acceptance confirmed with ScotRail, VTEC and VTWC as detailed

14:10 - VTEC 1E14 late start from Edinburgh due to a fault with 82200. Fault rectified but reappeared, with train at a stand at EG404 signal north of Lamberton HABD fault finding since 13:00. VTEC services 1E14, 1E96,1E15, 1E16, 1E97 and 1E17 all standing to rear. XC 1V64 being held departing Dunbar awaiting events. MOM eta to site 15:20.

 
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Last Saturday it was Peterborough 8 days on it's Berwick which has the severe disruption
 
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Mag_seven said:
The thread title states "2" broken down trains. Aside from 1E14 what was the other one?
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Inverness to Kings Cross had a fuel leak

As well as the breakdowns a set of level crossing barriers between Berwick & Alnmouth also failed which delayed services even further on both lines
 
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And to cap it off

A train has broken down between York and Doncaster all lines are blocked
 
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My son is still hoping to return to Exeter tonight from Burton on Trent on 1V68 booked time 19:38 now estimated at Burton 22:58. What is the chances of this last train still going as far as Exeter at such a late hour. Would CrossCountry have staff in the early hours to operate the train? Or are we talking of a long distance taxi from Birmingham or Bristol?
 
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My son is still hoping to return to Exeter tonight from Burton on Trent on 1V68 booked time 19:38 now estimated at Burton 22:58. What is the chances of this last train still going as far as Exeter at such a late hour. Would CrossCountry have staff in the early hours to operate the train? Or are we talking of a long distance taxi from Birmingham or Bristol?
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Terminating at New Street according to NRE
 
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Sniffingmoose said:
My son is still hoping to return to Exeter tonight from Burton on Trent on 1V68 booked time 19:38 now estimated at Burton 22:58. What is the chances of this last train still going as far as Exeter at such a late hour. Would CrossCountry have staff in the early hours to operate the train? Or are we talking of a long distance taxi from Birmingham or Bristol?
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Not running beyond Birmingham

http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/ldbdetails/zTWPTPKIoyONqJOAs1fksw==

They'll either provide a taxis or put people up in hotels overnight might well depend on the distance no XC services are showing to run south of Birmingham now for those still in northern England
 
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1200 Glasgow to Plymouth a cheeky 5 hours 35 mins late leaving Newcastle
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I'm on that train. NCL was dreadful. There were no XC staff and VTEC staff refused to help as we have XC advance tickets.

We are trying to travel Newcastle-Tamworth-Nuneaton.

A XC train arrived on terminal platform 10 but the guard said it wasn't going next and we should wait on platform 3 and take a VTEC to York.

We boarded a VTEC on platform 4. Everyone was then told to get off as there was no driver.

We then boarded a VTEC on platform 3. Everyone was then told to get off that. This was by an off-duty VTEC staff member "from head office" who was on his way back from the football. All on-duty staff had vanished.

The boards showed a 19:26 to Birmingham but with no platform and timed as "Delayed". We then spotted the XC train on platform 10 departing. It was difficult to see from the other side of the abandoned VTEC train on platform 3 but it appeared to leave empty. Checking Real-time Trains showed this was actually the 19:26. It was never platformed on the boards and never announced.

A few minutes later another XC train started pulling into platform 5. Once again, this was not announced or listed on the boards. There was a mass stampede of passengers from platforms 3/4 across the bridge to 5 while lots of other passengers were coming the other way. The pushing, shoving and running was such that I expect a few people got injured or at least picked up some bruises.

The XC train ended up rammed full and was ready to go but we had another wait of over 30 minutes because, according to the train manager, no VTEC despatchers were available.

Some passengers from Scotland have been on the train a very long time, but XC is not exercising any duty of care by providing water and food.
 
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