John Bishop
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Any idea why?
no idea. Stopped for around 4-5 minutes each time.
Any idea why?
We should be around Lancaster at the moment but haven’t even reached Carstairs yet.
Stopped at Haymarket on the combined 1M16 then onto the next signal and sat for about 50 minutes.
Disaster. What happened this time?
problem with the brakes apparently. Now 103L.
Any idea if last nights braking issue is related to the problems experienced a few months ago or an one-off issue?
Not exactly the same, but similiar (the one at Stafford area that is, not the Edinburgh one).
Brilliantly.Just to change the theme a little, how are the 73/9s and the 92s coping on the sleepers now?
Absolutely nothing wrong with the loco.If the problem is similar in too many ways to the stafford incident then that could be a very big headache for CS, i am just hoping that it was an issue with the loco. Loco swap is relatively easy, coaching stock and train managment software issues are not so easy to deal with.
Brilliantly.
Brilliantly.
To be fair i used the highland sleeper countless times since the 67s were introduced not once was there any major failure or issues with them.I agree, they’re great locos in the main. Yes, they’ve had their moments, but so did the 90s and 67s before them. I’d say that on the whole they seem more reliable than the 90s and 67s they replaced (I remember a number of pretty farcical failures behind these two classes in First Group and early Serco days; particularly common in my experience were ETS faults and failures don the 67s). The two 73s I had coming back from Inverness on Monday night seemed to make much lighter work of Slochd and Druimuachdar than the 67s did in the past.
That's good to hear that it wasn't related to the previous incident and performed as expected.Absolutely nothing wrong with the loco.
That said last night’s issues were only similar to the Stafford/Atherstone incident in that they involved brakes. Beyond that, not a lot in common.
There wasn’t a software issue with that incident either. It did what it was designed to do.
Certainly seems it is loading well at the moment - novelty ?
I'm surprised that so many mark 3 sleepers have reportedly found homes - I didn't think there'd be that many preserved railways looking for additional volunteer accommodation (The traditional preserve of withdrawn mark 3 sleepers)!https://twitter.com/Clinnick1/status/1187283776105340928
The former @CalSleeper Mk 2s and Mk 3s are off to their new homes. @PB_Leasing says it has 36 Mk 3 SLEP vehicles that all have new homes, while the Mk 2s also appear to have been snapped up. One, Eastern Rail Services' 6703, hired to @IconsOfSteam looks magnificent internally.
Having had a quick hunt about, it seems that at least five are now with rolling stock hire company Eastern Rail Services, who already own a number of air con mark 2s:i wonder where the Mkii's are off to?
Having had a quick hunt about, it seems that at least five are now with rolling stock hire company Eastern Rail Services, who already own a number of air con mark 2s:
http://easternrailservices.co.uk/fleet.htm
Mark 2F Lounge Cars: 6700/6703
Mark 2E Seated Brale Cars: 9800/9807
Yeah, stock off the Lowlander departing platform 1. TRUST has it listed as a loco fault.I believe that an empty stock move formed of Sleeper stock came to a stand as it left London Euston within the last hour or two, causing disruption.
Ah okay, first time I'd heard about it - Thanks.They've been with Eastern Rail Services for some time now, leased back to CS.
Chiltern used to have a blue and grey liveried rake of slam door mark 3s (Rather than mark 2s), used on a peak hour Marylebone - Banbury diagram. However they were repainted into the white variant of the Chiltern Mainline livery four years ago.dont chiltern railways have a rake of blue and grey ones, sure ive seen a video of them in service on a normal service
I believe that an empty stock move formed of Sleeper stock came to a stand as it left London Euston within the last hour or two, causing disruption.
Be a different set the set from tuesday night in inverness would of worked back north last night.Down Lowlander came to a stand just after leaving Preston last night causing 13 minute delay. ETS was switched off and on a few times before finally getting underway.
seems to be quite a few of these niggles in the MK5 stock. Happened twice also on 1M16 Tuesday night after leaving Inverness. Same set?
and it seems consistently cold.