Bitten Line Operational Incident

[leonie13]

The Norwich to Sheringham line was disrupted for a brief time today because of an “operational incident”. Services are getting back to normal however there’s an empty train sitting in the platform at Cromer all closed up.

What can “operational incident” refer to?

 

[PsychoMouse]

Literally anything.

 

[DelW]

The Norwich to Sheringham line was disrupted for a brief time today because of an “operational incident”. Services are getting back to normal however there’s an empty train sitting in the platform at Cromer all closed up.

What can “operational incident” refer to?

It's deliberately vague to cover a variety of situations, but e.g. can be used when a train has overshot a signal, or has come into contact with a person on the track.

 

[800001]

The Norwich to Sheringham line was disrupted for a brief time today because of an “operational incident”. Services are getting back to normal however there’s an empty train sitting in the platform at Cromer all closed up.

What can “operational incident” refer to?

755414 is the unit and will return to Norwich as 5S11.

 

[Dr Hoo]

I had visions of Desperate Dan chewing the tram rail in Cactusville [old Dandy comic story].

Presumably ‘Bittern’, after the rare water bird in East Anglia?

 

[Somewhere]

What can “operational incident” refer to?

Something has happened that shouldn't, and the railway is too embarrassed to make it public

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Presumably ‘Bittern’, after the rare water bird in East Anglia?

Yes, looks like a thread title typo.

Presume 'AutoCorrupt' has been active.

 

[Master29]

We could have done it if it wasn't for those damn heron relatives.

 

[Re 4/4]

I thought that hit a person on track is "emergency services dealing with an incident", whereas operational incident is "someone on the railway messed up" -as DelW says, overshooting a platform, but also SPAD, wrong side door release, wrong route taken, that kind of thing.

(EDIT: after reading another current thread, "pantograph stayed up when it shouldn't" would also be an operational incident I guess, but probably doesn't apply here)

 

[Towers]

I thought that hit a person on track is "emergency services dealing with an incident", whereas operational incident is "someone on the railway messed up" -as DelW says, overshooting a platform, but also SPAD, wrong side door release, wrong route taken, that kind of thing.

(EDIT: after reading another current thread, "pantograph stayed up when it shouldn't" would also be an operational incident I guess, but probably doesn't apply here)

Indeed, although ‘a person hit by a train’ still crops up.

 

[ValentaFan1974]

It was a Cat A SPAD. Signal TB34 passed at danger. TPWS activation stopped the train. I won’t go further into what is alleged….

 

[Ianigsy]

Something has happened that shouldn't, and the railway is too embarrassed to make it public

Once Bittern, twice shy?

 

[Trainguy34]

Once Bittern, twice shy?

They should keep their distance, but the Disruption would still catch our catch our eyes