Fire at Llandudno Junction (31/03)

[Welshman]

North Wales services were disrupted this morning by a small fire at Llandudno Junction, apparently, according to the North Wales Post, in Roger's Taxi Office on the platform.

Although the fire was extinguished by 9am, and train services were resumed, they are now not calling there for the rest of the day. RRBs are being provided between Bangor-Llandudno Junction and Colwyn Bay and Llandudno Junction-Llandudno.

Is the structural damage so severe that the station must remain closed?
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/arriva-trains-wales-issued-update-14482451

Trains are unable to stop at Llandudno Junction due to safety reasons after a blaze broke out in a taxi office at the station on Saturday morning.


Firefighters were called to Roger’s Taxi office just before 7.10am after an electrical problem sparked a small fire.

Arriva Trains Wales said that the station will stay closed for all of today while engineers and building inspectors make the building safe.

 

[headshot119]

North Wales services were disrupted this morning by a small fire at Llandudno Junction, apparently, according to the North Wales Post, in Roger's Taxi Office on the platform.

Although the fire was extinguished by 9am, and train services were resumed, they are now not calling there for the rest of the day. RRBs are being provided between Bangor-Llandudno Junction and Colwyn Bay and Llandudno Junction-Llandudno.

Is the structural damage so severe that the station must remain closed?

No power available to the station is the main issue holding back a reopening.

 

[Welshman]

No power available to the station is the main issue holding back a reopening.

Ah - that explains it. Thank-you.

 

[trainophile]

Still bus replacements from Colwyn Bay for the whole of today.

 

[PHILIPE]

Still bus replacements from Colwyn Bay for the whole of today.

At least until end of day Wednesday

 

[trainophile]

What damage was done to the station? Is it the building infrastructure or the "rail moving parts"? Nice little station, shame if it's badly damaged.

 

[Welshman]

What was described earlier in the Daily Post as a "small fire" in the taxi office, must be suspected of causing more damage than envisaged, as building safety officers are examining the station all day today, [and it will be closed tomorrow and Wednesday also, according to Philipe's post above].

Scroll down for a photo from the said newspaper:-
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/arriva-trains-wales-issued-update-14482451

 

[KevinTurvey]

From memory the Rogers taxi office referred to is the under the footbridge (a kind of big under-stairs cupboard) and this is the only access to the station, so may be the footbridge is unsafe?
Hope they get it sorted soon.

 

[Llanigraham]

The position of the taxi office is confirmed by the photo in the Daily Post link in post #7

 

[bigbadhenry]

This is why Llandudno Junction station is closed 0 electric - Peter Lloyd

 

[trainophile]

Oh dear. But at least the damage looks fairly confined. Must be a messy problem though, to keep the station closed for several days .

 

[Bletchleyite]

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This is why Llandudno Junction station is closed 0 electric - Peter Lloyd

Could they not get temporary site lighting in?

 

[Elecman]

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This is why Llandudno Junction station is closed 0 electric - Peter Lloyd

I sincerely hope that incoming cable to the open 200 amp cut out is disconnected elsewhere as the bottom combs will be live if it isn’t, either the cover should be replaced or comb covers fitted

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I sincerely hope that incoming cable to the open 200 amp cut out is disconnected elsewhere as the bottom combs will be live if it isn’t, either the cover should be replaced or comb covers fitted

Indeed! yikes

 

[bigbadhenry]

A railway station closed after a fire will stay shut until at least Thursday.

Trains on the North Wales coast mainline have not stopped at the station while repairs take place to the building and the electricity supply.

Bus replacement services are operating to and from Colwyn Bay, and on journeys to Llandudno and Deganwy as National Rail set a provisional reopening date.

The fire damaged a lift shaft, building structures and the electricity supply which "means it is unsafe to permit public access to the station until repairs are completed", National Rail said.

"It is anticipated that a provisional reopening date of Thursday 5 April can be achieved."

National Rail has warned trains running through the damaged station between Holyhead and Chester could be cancelled, revised or delayed while repairs continue.

• Rail services disrupted by station fire

Conwy Valley services have been suspended.

Disruption is affecting all Arriva Trains Wales services between Anglesey and Llandudno to Cardiff Central, Birmingham International, Manchester Airport, Manchester Piccadilly, London Euston and Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd.

Virgin Trains services to Holyhead, Birmingham New Street and London Euston will go directly between Colwyn Bay and Bangor.


BBC NEWS

 

[StoneRoad]

Hope they get that sorted soon, I'm supposed to be going to Blaenau Ffestiniog next week !

 

[Bletchleyite]

Hope they get that sorted soon, I'm supposed to be going to Blaenau Ffestiniog next week !

There's always the X1 (or whatever it is now) or RRB, it's a very nice scenic ride over the bleak Crimea Pass. I quite like doing bus one way and train the other to enjoy both.

 

[nowananorack]

Hope they get that sorted soon, I'm supposed to be going to Blaenau Ffestiniog next week !

Or you could use the Cambrian line, change at Minffordd or Porthmadog, then use the Ffestiniog Railway to Blaenau Ffestiniog

 

[StoneRoad]

Or you could use the Cambrian line, change at Minffordd or Porthmadog, then use the Ffestiniog Railway to Blaenau Ffestiniog

Which actually might be better, as it is actually near Minffordd that I want to be at, but I'm coming down from near Carlisle !

 

[StoneRoad]

Think this is now a moot point - I need to escort some large packages so car it will have to be. The last time we tried a courier two of the six boxes got themselves lost for a few days !

 

[PHILIPE]

Re-opens tomorrow apart from the lifts