Landslip At Corby (13/06)

DanDaDriver · 14 Jun 2019

Mugby said:
Apologies if I've missed something earlier in this thread but at the start it was said there were 600 people on the stranded train.

That seems a very high number for a normal Thursday service, why would it have had so many people on board?

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M!T · 14 Jun 2019

As it appears from the pics that only the rear power car was affected, would it not have been possible to uncouple it and allow the front power car to drag the coaches as far as the nearest suitable location for detaining the passengers and organising their onward travel?

Kneedown · 14 Jun 2019

DarloRich said:
A single malt for medicinal use? goodness me!

( fairplay after a 19 hour shift! I hope the chief is on the phone to offer some thanks)

Only the 12yr old, not the 18 yr old!

She has a good manager who has already been on the phone with thanks.

SilentGrade · 14 Jun 2019

Both trains now clear of the site and the line is expected to reopen before tomorrow

InOban · 14 Jun 2019

When I was at school, sliding, or skidding, friction was less than static friction, so WSP/ABS should bring you to a halt more quickly than the generation of square wheels.

Mitchell Hurd · 14 Jun 2019

One of the engines must have been running for all that time. HST fuel tanks must be huge!

Darandio · 14 Jun 2019

Mitchell Hurd said:
One of the engines must have been running for all that time. HST fuel tanks must be huge!

It would be able to idle for days.

Steptoe · 14 Jun 2019

Does anyone else look at the online edition of the Daily Mail (I won't post a link as 95% of the article about this weeks flooding was not railway related)

They included quite a decent photo of this incident but the real gem was in the caption:

This train was dislodged in Corby, Northamptonshire, where about 500 passengers were stranded for around eight hours yesterday until another train came along and noticed the carnage caused by landslides

ainsworth74 · 14 Jun 2019

Steptoe said:
This train was dislodged in Corby, Northamptonshire, where about 500 passengers were stranded for around eight hours yesterday until another train came along and noticed the carnage caused by landslides

I mean they managed to get the location right. I'll give them that.

option · 14 Jun 2019

whhistle said:
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So this is the location;
https://goo.gl/maps/5RAvDXHfth1Msjv19

looks like the slip was on the western side of the cutting

Mitchell Hurd · 14 Jun 2019

Darandio said:
It would be able to idle for days.

Can't be bad

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Essan · 14 Jun 2019

Steptoe said:
Does anyone else look at the online edition of the Daily Mail (I won't post a link as 95% of the article about this weeks flooding was not railway related)

They included quite a decent photo of this incident but the real gem was in the caption:

This train was dislodged in Corby, Northamptonshire, where about 500 passengers were stranded for around eight hours yesterday until another train came along and noticed the carnage caused by landslides

Was that the same news story on this weeks floods that showed a picture captioned "the River Avon flooding Worcester"?

whoosh · 14 Jun 2019

Mitchell Hurd said:
One of the engines must have been running for all that time. HST fuel tanks must be huge!

Each power car has a 1050 gallon diesel tank.

Dren Ahmeti · 15 Jun 2019

T3 (Engineers) Possession given back at 1948, with a 20mph ESR (Emergency Speed Restriction) on both the Up and Down Corby.

Considering a Monday opening was on the cards, if the line opens in the morning, it’s a bloody brilliant job well done!
Some of the photos and reports coming from the people on the site showed just what a difficult situation this was.

philthetube · 15 Jun 2019

Roast Veg said:
That's no good for passengers who intended to make a connection at STP, many will have been after a cross London journey at what should have been a very reasonable time of day. Hopefully hotels and renumeration are in order, but for that many people I don't know how the staff will be able to address them all.

Definitely a glass half empty man, considering it was an unavoidable situation. how about a bit of praise for them organising a train at short notice.

ForTheLoveOf · 15 Jun 2019

Darandio said:
It would be able to idle for days.

Would it have been any different if it had been a Meridian? I do sometimes wonder what the idle 'range' is for different units, were they to get stranded.

SPADTrap · 15 Jun 2019

Dieseldriver said:
Simple, the Driver will spot the landslide at a range of 150 yards travelling at 125mph, put their foot on the brake, WSP will kick in and bingo, disaster averted.

Calm down, the train was doing 40MPH as there is a 40TSR over the 60PSR. HSTs have very good WSP and a good brake, anyway.

yorksrob · 15 Jun 2019

ForTheLoveOf said:
Would it have been any different if it had been a Meridian? I do sometimes wonder what the idle 'range' is for different units, were they to get stranded.

I bet the bogs would have packed up quicker.

Bletchleyite · 15 Jun 2019

whoosh said:
Each power car has a 1050 gallon diesel tank.

Can you imagine rocking up at the local Esso for that? Best get a mortgage

Dieseldriver · 15 Jun 2019

SPADTrap said:
Calm down, the train was doing 40MPH as there is a 40TSR over the 60PSR. HSTs have very good WSP and a good brake, anyway.

I wasn't aware that I wasn't calm?

SPADTrap · 15 Jun 2019

Dieseldriver said:
I wasn't aware that I wasn't calm?

Well now you know, it's a service this stuff

MichaelAMW · 15 Jun 2019

philthetube said:
Definitely a glass half empty man, considering it was an unavoidable situation. how about a bit of praise for them organising a train at short notice.

Although it would have been avoidable had the person not been standing on the parapet of a bridge South of Leicester, causing the MML service to be unnecessarily diverted that way...

43096 · 15 Jun 2019

whoosh said:
Each power car has a 1050 gallon diesel tank.

Not quite. Each power car has two fuel tanks. No 2 tank is 602gal and No 3 tank 427gal. Total fuel capacity is 1,029gal.

Edders23 · 15 Jun 2019

ainsworth74 said:
I mean they managed to get the location right. I'll give them that.

I'm struggling with this as everyone is quoting the location as Corby when Corby tunnel is to the north of the town and the only road bridge seen in some of the photos is near Gretton several miles North of Corby station and approx 1 mile north of the tunnel which would make sense as the train was in a cutting but there are mentions of lakes which I cannot think of any close to the line,

I would have thought the cause was more likely waterlogged fields and the water draining into the cutting

Whilst I live nearly 20 miles away I do know this area a little and there is no easy access to the line if this was where I think it was

randyrippley · 15 Jun 2019

43096 said:
Not quite. Each power car has two fuel tanks. No 2 tank is 602gal and No 3 tank 427gal. Total fuel capacity is 1,029gal.

and No 1 tank is....?

randyrippley · 15 Jun 2019

Dieseldriver said:
Simple, the Driver will spot the landslide at a range of 150 yards travelling at 125mph, put their foot on the brake, WSP will kick in and bingo, disaster averted.

foot???

43096 · 15 Jun 2019

randyrippley said:
and No 1 tank is....?

No longer fitted!

43096 · 15 Jun 2019

Dieseldriver said:
Simple, the Driver will spot the landslide at a range of 150 yards travelling at 125mph, put their foot on the brake, WSP will kick in and bingo, disaster averted.

Bingo, I think we've just ascertained that either you don't drive trains or you are taking the proverbial out of some people!

"Foot on the brake"
150 yards to stop from 125mph
What WSP actually does

randyrippley · 15 Jun 2019

43096 said:
Bingo, I think we've just ascertained that either you don't drive trains or you are taking the proverbial out of some people!

"Foot on the brake"
150 yards to stop from 125mph
What WSP actually does

next he'll be steeing the train to safety

DanDaDriver · 15 Jun 2019

43096 said:
Bingo, I think we've just ascertained that either you don't drive trains or you are taking the proverbial out of some people!

"Foot on the brake"
150 yards to stop from 125mph
What WSP actually does

It was quite obviously heavy sarcasm......

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