From the tweet it appears it's good maintenance checks that caught the problem before a train came to grief!
The XC/TPE/Lumo ticket acceptance is notably only valid Edinburgh to Newcastle, anyone with those tickets on an LNER train heading southbound is getting booted out at Newcastle and told to go on different trains from there (and headed northbound can't board until Newcastle).
Politely asked to change at Newcastle to the operator that they were booked on, where there services are starting at Newcastle.
No, just northbound.
Ticket acceptance updated, LNER now has mutual acceptance with Lumo between London and Edinburgh, and mutual with TPE and XC between Edinburgh and York.
Borders services today are hourly and turning at Newcraighall due to the disruption, so it's more likely to be an issue with signing/signalling.
The line between Newcraighall North Junction and Monktonhall Junction isn't signalled to passenger standards and there are lots of sets of hand points that would need to be secured. I don't think any LNER drivers sign it these days anyway, since they got rid of the Thunderbird loco.
Yes as they can’t get some units off Millerhill. There is no access to the up/down millerhill line. So some services replaced by diesels where crew knowledge permits.
Sounds like its not standard geometry then if they need a special fabricated could be quite a few weeks oou.
All I know is it’s 87 points at Craigentinny.
All NWR logs and TOCs are stating Points 87 on all there communications.
87pts is the connection to the Powderhall branch; the A end is the traps, the B end is the connection to the Up line.
Ah perfect, I thought that it might have already been plain-lined so that does clear everything up. Definitely a terrible one to try and signal around, but ultimately nothing of value will be lost from plain lining this.
So a set of points which have presumably been secured oou for sometime although that shouldn't detract from having inspections undertaken on them other than perhaps S&T FPL (facing point lock) checks if they ca C&Pd. Cracked crossings have to be pretty bad not to be suitable for 5mph mind you but maybe it was the switches. Anyhow easy enough to plain line overnight so normal service can be restored.
Even if clipped and scotched, the points also need to be visually inspected to ensure that the FPL is still holding them, the clamp and scotch is in place and the stretcher bars and machine/rodding is secure. Certain measurements are also required to be taken to ensure that the correct clearances are being maintained through the switch. If possible, a detection test is also required.
which sounds very much like the crossing to me. You cast a crossing, but you don't cast a switch.
