Lovely site, thanks for sharing!
But in reality its been in common use as a synonym of cancelled (at origin, en-route, whatever) for a very long time. No-one uses PINE unless they are trying to be clever or important, caped at xx does the job perfectly well and more people will know what it means!
A controller at London Midland used to use PINE fairly regularly meaning exactly that... the train had stopped or started short/early.
I will point out here that these two are unofficial (and listed as such)!
We’re not allowed to type “pine”, “pined”, “cape” or “caped” in the log where I am, it’s “terminated” or “cancelled” only.
That's actually quite interesting, as a glance at yesterday's log does indeed seem the action codes have now changed from the four-character abbreviations into full text now. Further digging shows that the change came into effect on 21st June 2017. Can't say I paid much attention to that.
