bramling
Veteran Member
There were at least 3 in the Hatfield station area including at Welwyn - Moorgate on the fast line. These were the reason for the massive delay on the 0952 Aberdeen - London service. I had heard about 23 on the great northern region but can’t validate this.
People were expecting the 717s to be the savour if the line but 313s are simple creatures. Easy to get going once the power is back. I wonder if a single type of train has ever caused to mainlines to collapse in this way before? Having a chuckle reading through the class 700 thread. “They will never fail one poster kept trying to convince us”.
Yes the grid cause the initial fail. Accept that. But the grid was totally restored by 1835. Shame the 700 are too complex for their own good.
“Nothing much bothers them”...
It just *had* to be the 700s (and 717s). Other types of train don’t seem to have been a problem, including other new ones like the 387s or 800s.
Is Thameslink just cursed?
One thing I will say, GTR have done well to pick things up such that today’s service doesn’t look to have been too bad. Considering how the pieces landed last night they have done well to run a pretty decent service from the start today. The same can be said for the day when the heat caused all the problems, where again they put in a creditable performance to get things more or less okay for the next day.
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