I'd also wonder if they could start the sleeper (maybe the lowland later) from King's Cross. Are there oaths at that time of night?
In the circumstances I would imagine the air is blue with them.
I'd also wonder if they could start the sleeper (maybe the lowland later) from King's Cross. Are there oaths at that time of night?
1S25 has made up 10 mins already, and it's not even at Nuneaton yet. 90 I presume?
Nope, 92 023 the night. Nothing ahead of it mind. DF and greens all the way.
Trust me, I well aware of that. It won't be starting at Watford Jn I'm sure of that.
**** happens eh. Do you know a lot about what happened last night? Do you know how this came about?
Presumably kept on Fasts rather than shafted onto slows?
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As for today, there's now a broken rail on the Up Fast (ie. Southbound) line at one end of Northchurch Tunnels, near Tring. This means there's effectively a two-track railway on part of the stretch between Milton Keynes Ctl and Watford Jn. In turn, VT have pulled 1tph to/from both Birmingham and Manchester, LM have pulled the Tring terminators, and Southern aren't going to run beyond Watford Junction (or Shepherds Bush) if they can help it...
Not having a standby power supply in a major London Terminus shows a complete lack of resillience in that part of the Network.
Euston is gloomy on a sunny day and is an architectural monstrosity. If John Betjemnan was still alive I am sure that he would have adapted his Slough poem to describe it and what he wished for it.
SSOs on other services to cover?
EDIT-I can't see any cancellations on Brum services, other than a late start on one (and subsequent turning at Int'l) and a late start on the 1103, but the 1100 Manchester has been pulled.
[OT]Never bought into those views. While not as grand as the Art Deco Euston that the LMS had planned, the station itself is a gem of its period. It is the Euston Square development from the 1970s outside that spoils the environment. For a few short years from 1968 Euston station stood in relative isolation and was seen for what it is.
That was not true when I was there in 1980s - It had both "traction supply" and "LEB national grid supply" I think it was a split of 70/30. Certainly we tested switching to just LEB lighting. In fact we had several areas solely powered by the national grid supply. Partly because changes through the 1980s meant we started to install meters to off charge commercial tenants and parts of the railway like the BTP police station. The traction supply used to be fed into two transformers for the station use. The P&M manager always complained that the commercial expansion meant his beloved policy of each only operating at 40% capacity (so that he could always switch one out for maintenance without compromising the station) was under threat. That was 27 years ago, I am sure that things have improved since the cash strapped BR days.
I quite agree. Euston, in its most basic and uncluttered form, was (and perhaps could still be, with a lot of work) quite a masterpiece.
Even with the clutter I find it pretty good. It's pig-ugly outside, but apart from the Euston scrum (which is just a poor method of operation and could be replaced) it works well.
As for today, there's now a broken rail on the Up Fast (ie. Southbound) line at one end of Northchurch Tunnels, near Tring. This means there's effectively a two-track railway on part of the stretch between Milton Keynes Ctl and Watford Jn. In turn, VT have pulled 1tph to/from both Birmingham and Manchester, LM have pulled the Tring terminators, and Southern aren't going to run beyond Watford Junction (or Shepherds Bush) if they can help it...
I am intrigued by the burning cables yesterday.
A dead short to ground or across phases would (should) cause whatever protective devices to trip immediately, disconnecting the power until reset or replaced.
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Unless the ignition source was some kind of fuel, the only cause of an entire length of cable burning is electrical overload. Protective devices in low voltage systems (<1kV) should be rated to trip at a current beneath what the cable can handle indefinitely - the bigger the overload, the quicker they trip.
This sustained high current was going somewhere, where I have no idea. Did someone bypass a fuse with a nail/spanner?