Not been a good day for Great Western, earlier there was a Track Circuit failure at Hungerford and a points failure at Southall East Junction, plus a suicidal male on a bridge between Plymouth and Totnes.
347 minutes...? hock: that's outrageous!
Apparently it has been rescued by 59 202?
LBC Radio reports passengers stuck for hours and no food or water provided...
LBC Radio reports passengers stuck for hours and no food or water provided, brake failure was said to be the reason
Well FGW may be doing better then this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-23566079
Why bus pax to Birmingham for Hotels, to bus them back to Manchester for the flight?
To be fair, the incident happened at the 73½ milepost between Pewsey and Savernake and it's over 20 miles from Westbury (the nearest place of any railway significance) to Pewsey. A fitter was sent to site and couldn't rectify the issue.
Still, once it got past the fitter arriving on site and being unable to fix it, I do wonder why a cross transfer could not have been arranged with a train in the other direction, or for another train to be tipped out and sent up to collect the customers and take them in the direction of travel.
This is very reminiscent of the incident two years ago at Kentish Town, where a broken-down First Capital Connect train was recovered with a ridiculous use of just their own resources, including turfing off everyone from another train at a station with no platform staff, and ended up taking over 3 hours to relieve a packed train in tunnel where the emergency lighting had given out.we were turfed off the 1850 CDF-PAD HST at Reading so the crew could attend at Pewsey. Does anyone know what went wrong and how come a train is stuck for 5 hours?
OK, that takes 5 minutes to uncouple and leave it there, a few more to put detonators down each side of it. Where did the remaining 5 hours 55 minutes go?The brakes were locked in the rear powercar. That powercar was detached and dragged off by the loco, while the rest of the train proceeded to London.