Greater Anglia PBoro to Ipswich service abandoned

CockneySparrow · 7 Jan 2020

dk1 said:
Hopefully back up and running very soon once the hiccups are sorted. The much hoped for hourly service however maybe several years away.

Indeed, the first goal is for your company to run the 2 hourly service

#smallsteps

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CockneySparrow · 7 Jan 2020

Southern Dvr said:
Meanwhile of course Cross Country and East Midlands Railway just plough through Manea & Whittlesea as per usual. Once upon a time on a joined up railway far far away special stop orders may have been issued to cover for the cancelled trains.

I heard CC want money to stop at Manea and Whittlesey but GA dont want to pay them

dk1 · 7 Jan 2020

CockneySparrow said:
Indeed, the first goal is for your company to run the 2 hourly service

#smallsteps

Its made a decent restart.

AndrewE · 7 Jan 2020

dk1 said:
Its made a decent restart.

Pleased to hear it - from 2 sources: Son has just emailed

I am on a train from whittlesey to ipswich. It may be an old 156 and running late but still good! Level crossing problems at stonea? Long q of traffic.

dk1 · 7 Jan 2020

AndrewE said:
Pleased to hear it - from 2 sources: Son has just emailed

Good to hear mate. As long as a train of some description turns up, who cares?

eastdyke · 7 Jan 2020

swills said:
Interesting, I do not recall anyone reporting such an incident in the box, and there has been no mention of it on any shift ! A thing like that would be the talk of the box, for some considerable time

I am wondering if the Modern Railways piece was either mistold in the first place and/or misreported?
Cannot believe all wheelsets, however badly contaminated, would fail to complete the track circuit on the tight curve from Trowse Swing Bridge to Carrow Road Bridge.
The actual wording in MR is:

.... without being detected by track circuits from Trowse swing bridge.

Could perhaps mean that a train did not show on the Vaughan Harmon MCS VDU work station controlling the Whitlingham Junction to Sheringham line? Which is of course located in the Trowse Swing Bridge Box.
https://photos.signalling.org/picture?/4025/categories
Other views inside the box available by toggling the thumbnails under the picture.

TheBigD · 7 Jan 2020

AndrewE said:
Pleased to hear it - from 2 sources: Son has just emailed

I am on a train from whittlesey to ipswich. It may be an old 156 and running late but still good! Level crossing problems at stonea? Long q of traffic.

The underpass at Stonea has been closed since October following a bridge bash which has caused significant damage to the bridge. All traffic has to use the level crossing.

LAX54 · 7 Jan 2020

eastdyke said:
I am wondering if the Modern Railways piece was either mistold in the first place and/or misreported?
Cannot believe all wheelsets, however badly contaminated, would fail to complete the track circuit on the tight curve from Trowse Swing Bridge to Carrow Road Bridge.
The actual wording in MR is:

Could perhaps mean that a train did not show on the Vaughan Harmon MCS VDU work station controlling the Whitlingham Junction to Sheringham line? Which is of course located in the Trowse Swing Bridge Box.
https://photos.signalling.org/picture?/4025/categories
Other views inside the box available by toggling the thumbnails under the picture.

That system as far as I can recall is for the Cromer Line only, and a bit of the Wherry, the Main Lines which can be controlled from Trowse Bridge when they switch in, is on an NX style panel.

AndrewE · 9 Jan 2020

dk1 said:
Good to hear mate. As long as a train of some description turns up, who cares?

Looks as though they have all run today as well! At last a bit of good news to set against the bad news in the comment below https://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2020/01/09-franchising-crisis-deepens-as-west.html although you can't see when it dates from

Yet another Abellio Franchise in the mire, straight after eviction from Scotrail. But why are they not being hounded for the outright shambles on Greater Anglia? Yesterday they were flag-waving as one new main line train between Norwich and London. They forget to mention that 2 others were cancelled and the rural debacle continued on the Ipswich-Felixstowe and Ipswich-Peterborough lines (and probably elsewhere if truth be known). Yet to this date I have not seen or heard any real remorse or regret, apart from the bog standard rubbish. Ands they STILL try and pass the buck by blaming "signal issues" as if it's down to Network Rail when the whole world knows it's the new trains inter-action that is the issue

dk1 · 9 Jan 2020

AndrewE said:
Looks as though they have all run today as well! At last a bit of good news to set against the bad news in the comment below https://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2020/01/09-franchising-crisis-deepens-as-west.html although you can't see when it dates from

All went superbly with 745007 yesterday. Looks like 006 will be coming in next week. Good to see the Peterborough up & running again. It's not been a happy time but everyone is doing their best to get things back to normal.

eastdyke · 9 Jan 2020

dk1 said:
All went superbly with 745007 yesterday. Looks like 006 will be coming in next week. Good to see the Peterborough up & running again. It's not been a happy time but everyone is doing their best to get things back to normal.

Excellent news, thanks, and yes great work on the ground. :cake:

Will surely make Crown Point a much easier place to operate when all 90s and Mk3s can get shunted off?
As to the Peterboroughs, how is the Manea westbound stopping position beng managed with the Stadlers?
Must get down again and see for myself, next week perhaps.

306024 · 9 Jan 2020

Full service required next weekend. It is Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival. Next Saturday (18th) is the busiest day for Whittlesea in the whole year.

Midnight Sun · 9 Jan 2020

eastdyke said:
As to the Peterboroughs, how is the Manea westbound stopping position beng managed with the Stadlers?
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Two stop posts beyond the end of the platform towards March, One marked '3 car' the other '4 car'

dk1 · 9 Jan 2020

eastdyke said:
Excellent news, thanks, and yes great work on the ground.
Will surely make Crown Point a much easier place to operate when all 90s and Mk3s can get shunted off?
As to the Peterboroughs, how is the Manea westbound stopping position beng managed with the Stadlers?
Must get down again and see for myself, next week perhaps.

Looks like around 16 mk3s can be shifted to store & out of the way. Not spoken to any Ipswich/Colchester crew about Manea but ASDO must be doing its thing.

Onwards & upwards hopefully mate.

eastdyke · 9 Jan 2020

Midnight Sun said:
Two stop posts beyond the end of the platform towards March, One marked '3 car' the other '4 car'

Thanks very much.

306024 said:
Full service required next weekend. It is Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival. Next Saturday (18th) is the busiest day for Whittlesea in the whole year.

I initially mis-read that as a Straw Beer Festival, must be some drinking going on in the Town somewhere though?

dk1 said:
Looks like around 16 mk3s can be shifted to store & out of the way. Not spoken to any Ipswich/Colchester crew about Manea but ASDO must be doing its thing.
Onwards & upwards hopefully mate.

Cheers, yes!

306024 · 9 Jan 2020

eastdyke said:
I initially mis-read that as a Straw Beer Festival, must be some drinking going on in the Town somewhere though?

Maybe just a bit of drinking. Google it, a day of madness but great fun.

eastdyke · 9 Jan 2020

306024 said:
Maybe just a bit of drinking. Google it, a day of madness but great fun.

Yes thanks, have done. Not sure that the Grandchildren can sensibly get up from London (ECML part closure, service reductions and bustitutions etc.)

https://www.strawbear.org.uk/
Also, hope that GA can get the full 4 cars out and are using the day, not the date, shown on the Festival website!

Getting here by Train: 3 car units will be in operation on Greater Anglia trains on Saturday 19th Jan to allow more people to travel by train to and from Whittlesea.

Class 170101 · 9 Jan 2020

eastdyke said:
Yes thanks, have done. Not sure that the Grandchildren can sensibly get up from London (ECML part closure, service reductions and bustitutions etc.)
https://www.strawbear.org.uk/
Also, hope that GA can get the full 4 cars out and are using the day, not the date, shown on the Festival website!

ECML is open. NRES is offering journeys Kings Cross to Whittlesea with one change at Ely every two hours.

eastdyke · 9 Jan 2020

Class 170101 said:
ECML is open. NRES is offering journeys Kings Cross to Whittlesea with one change at Ely every two hours.

Thanks, yes ECML is open with some lines closed and reduced services which are expected to be busy. Journey times on the route offered over 2hrs vice normal via PBO times of 1hr20-30.
All in all, not regarded by family with the little ones as too sensible sadly.

Midnight Sun · 10 Jan 2020

No services between Bury and Cambridge/Peterborough today. large lorry wedged under the railway bridge at Kennett.

AndrewE · 11 Jan 2020

Sounds a bad one, https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/container-lorry-brings-services-to-a-halt.198174/ says

its moved part of the bridge and knocked one of the lines out of alignment (slightly).

70014IronDuke · 21 Jan 2020

A bit of a disaster yesterday, it seems. RTT shows five return workings canxed.

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/se...20/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=passenger&order=wtt

That could mean half a day's wait at Manea (:

TheBigD · 21 Jan 2020

70014IronDuke said:
A bit of a disaster yesterday, it seems. RTT shows five return workings canxed.

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/se...20/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=passenger&order=wtt

That could mean half a day's wait at Manea (:

There was only one lady all of yesterday afternoon/evening that turned up for a cancelled train. She walked back towards the village after being told no trains were stopping.

eastdyke · 21 Jan 2020

TheBigD said:
There was only one lady all of yesterday afternoon/evening that turned up for a cancelled train. She walked back towards the village after being told no trains were stopping.

Plus a few who had to be taxied home from March or Ely?

TheBigD · 21 Jan 2020

eastdyke said:
Plus a few who had to be taxied home from March or Ely?

No doubt. Tonight's 1709 ex Ely dropped off about a dozen people.

Midnight Sun · 25 Jan 2020

Rare sighting in the Fens at Lunch when a Greater Anglia serive run instead of being cancelled. Moreso with it being a four car FLIRT.

Ianno87 · 25 Jan 2020

Midnight Sun said:
Rare sighting in the Fens at Lunch when a Greater Anglia serive run instead of being cancelled. Moreso with it being a four car FLIRT.

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Ipswich-Peterborough service seem s to be running OK this (Saturday) afternoon.

No Norwich-Cambridge services at all due to works at Norwich.

AndrewE · 25 Jan 2020

Midnight Sun said:
Rare sighting in the Fens at Lunch when a Greater Anglia service ran instead of being cancelled. More so with it being a four car FLIRT.

View attachment 73124

I'm pleased to report that last Sunday the 1333 Whittlesea to Peterborough also ran (on time) and was a Flirt too. I was quite impressed by it all!

70014IronDuke · 25 Jan 2020

Ianno87 said:
Ipswich-Peterborough service seem s to be running OK this (Saturday) afternoon. ....

Hooray. First time this week then - I'm pretty sure there was at least one, and sometimes two, round trips caped every day this week.

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