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This issue was dealt with by research commissioned by Transport Focus on behalf of Network Rail in 2015. “Emergency services dealing with an incident” was considered the optimum term. The research can be found Here

Several issues here - some of which is the result of where trains ended up last night. Peterborough Spital Sidings only received 3 out of its 6 Class 700 FLUs and such.

The emergency isolation took out a large section; took until 1745 for the OHL gang to shorten the isolation due to access issues via a farmers field. Once the isolation was shortened, the route off towards Cambridge was available.

GTR already have a member of staff located at York ROC- and have done since around March 2018 - operating as a fringe to the Great Northern Train Service Manager and Thameslink East Train Service Manager who are based in the GTR Control Centre at Three Bridges ROC (Sussex Route Control). The...

Simply put there were so few Airport passengers travelling, that the Gatwick Express dedicated service was suspended. However, the trains still need rotating and there are still Gatwick Express crews that require work, so the GX 387 fleet are operating a majority of the Southern 1A**...

Operational incident is correct in the form of a double SPAD. The need for “destructive testing” is because the SPAD is alleged to have not been a SPAD at all. The driver suggests the signals were at proceed; the system detected a SPAD. If the driver can see a proceed on the ground when the...

Limits of the block are different and it knocks about 35-40 minutes off the rail replacement bus time to Bedford.

There were all sorts of permutations that were possible here because the cost for the recordings were a function of studio time not the number of sound bites. So various clips were recorded “WE ARE FSTVL” - the festival at Upminster; so that for 2 days a year “change at Upminster for bus...

10mph on plain track and 3mph over points and crossings. At such speed there’s quite a significant gapping risk. So needed to make the combined formation long. Unlikely to go down the Sydenham Corridor as going into Selhurst Depot from the Norwood Junction end - don’t want to gap across the...

Trespass Incident at Tulse Hill, emergency traction current discharge. Terminated and detrained there as nowhere to go that wouldn’t have spread further delay.

c2c Class 387s: Diagrams 201/202/203 AM 5S90 06+03 East Ham CSD - Shoeburyness (Monday Only) 5P13 06+48 Shoeburyness CSD-Shoeburyness (Monday Excluded) 1P13 07:02 Shoeburyness - Fenchurch Street 1P24 08:08 Fenchurch Street - Shoeburyness 2P87 09:27 Shoeburyness - Fenchurch Street 1P42 10:49...

Couldn’t get *anything* out of Hornsey due to the isolation limits. As such GTR GN were having to manage with only whatever was on network at the time the incident started. The initial isolation was extensive and then gradually reduced.

Tunnel is pretty grim anyway, however, reports are that due to poor air quality, the track workers needed to leave the tunnel more often than had been planned for, in order to get fresh air. Clearly in such a long tunnel, getting out and then back in to position for work to resume, became timely.

Was an emergency possession to remedy an emergency speed restriction of (I believe) 5mph that had been imposed in giving up the block so the work certainly needed completing. I believe Network Rail also addressed a defective IBJ within the block.

I also gather there is an issue with new wheel set availability as a time for need has coincided with factory shutdown at the supplier.

The Class 387s only came with a limited mileage condition on the lease. This restricted the number of services it could operate - nothing to do with on train cleaning. Stop markers were a consequence of the difference in the viewing position of the marker out of the window which is different...

They did, by allowing 6x357s to be used elsewhere in the timetable - strengthening from 8-car 357 to 12-car 357 etc and in some cases on the Tilbury's from 4 to 8. So those services benefited. However, the challenge of which services to allocate the Class 387s themselves to, with the 2+2...

Whilst not being trumpeted massively yet, today saw the long awaited Wi-Fi go-live on c2c, following significant work to the Class 357 fleet. As with the station wi-fi, the train wi-fi will be completely free to use. It is accompanied by c2c's version of the Virgin BEAM product for on-board...

That 00:10 (GMT) Brighton-Bedford appears to be set down only north of Haywards Heath, so it should on stop at the stations that people on at Haywards want to go to. So it could theoretically end up express and get in much much earlier than 07:06 (BST).

Hah! Opening only so far as it starts a sequence of events, but understood, yes.