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your right it did, anyone know if 87002 did 1M16 last night in the end?....some pictures would go down well
Yes, it certainly did.your right it did, anyone know if 87002 did 1M16 last night in the end?....some pictures would go down well
Well maybe use a Locomotive supplier that has locomotives that are reliable enough and have enough of them not have to resort to some ancient Semi Preserved Loco's, Oh and we have still got the joy's of the rebuilt 73 to come
21st century railway what a joke.
Oh I hope Transport for Scotland have managed to get most of the Scottish Network electrified by the end of the next franchise otherwise they are going to have a lot of old diesel trains that need replacing not only the clapped out HST's but all those 1st gen sprinters that are going to be kept in pref to newer 170's
your right it did, anyone know if 87002 did 1M16 last night in the end?
looking goodAt Preston from WNXX twitter (hope that's ok?)
Most of the passengers on 1M11 (including me) arrived in London at 0938 aboard 1U20 (London Midland's train from Crewe) having been detrained at Milton Keynes.
Apparently, 92028 (my first 92 for haulage) was almost declared a failure at Glasgow and left 20 minutes late. I was travelling in the seated carriage of the Edinburgh portion but I ran out of phone battery at Edinburgh so didn't really know what was going on.
I first awoke for a short while at Stafford where we had stopped in the through line and thought that was unusual. As you can see from Realtimetrains, we had not really lost any extra time between Carstairs and Stafford. The next time I woke up, there was a lot of Mark 2 breaking noise approaching Northampton having been sent that way because of the problems.
I'm not really sure what happened at Northampton. We were held on the through line short of the station from about 0650 until 0805. During that time a succession of 350s went into Northampton station and it seemed like we were never getting the platform. However, for at least some of that time, the engine was being reset as the air conditioning went on and off a few times.
By the time we arrived at Northampton all of the fast trains had departed and the message was to stay on until Milton Keynes. We seemed to fail again just short of Wolverton and eventually limped into Milton Keynes at 0852.
For me, my only bitterness is the hour spent north of Northampton and if any of that delay was down to simply not getting the platform. They don't like detraining the sleeper on a short platform but if we had been set down at Rugby at 0628, we would have been in London at 0726. Having had the train fail twice at Stafford, there must have been some thought that it would not get to London at that time and we wouldn't have had the hour at Northampton.
I wouldn't be TOO hasty. Most new stock has teething problems, so I suspect we'd be more likely to see poor reliability when the stock is introduced but then a rapid recovery to much better than before as the teething problems are fixed.It isn't the first time the sleeper has been comically late, and won't be the last time. If it fails, it fails big time. Interesting that it was a coach failure that tripped the loco. Coach failure of one sort or another seems to be a regular failing and it has been for a long time. They are life expired and I'm sure have been nursed along at the lowest possible cost for years. The new stock in a couple of years should bring a huge step jump in reliability.
Is it too late to import some of the 87's that were shipped to Bulgaria?
how does the stock get to where it should, ie Euston in this case?
Seems like 87002 is on 1s25 again tonight and 1m11 tomorrow night from the wnxx twitter feed
Is it 1M11 (from Glasgow) tomorrow night or 1M16 (from Edinburgh)?
Should have never sold off or scrapped the 87's.
It'll be 1M16.
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86401 also to join 86101 and 87002 for ECS duties. Did not know they where any 86/2s left in Anglia
They probably ran it directly from Milton K into Wembley Yard.
I would imagine that the reason for terminating at Milton K in the end had less to do with how late it was per se and more to do with there being no platform capacity available at Euston when it would have eventually got in.
Should have never sold off or scrapped the 87's.