Minor derailment at Cambridge

[Jovian98]

Anyone have any more info?

https://twitter.com/GNRailUK/status/925977631618752513

Due to a derailment within the depot at #Cambridge services running through this station may be cancelled

 

[jamesontheroad]

It is being referred to elsewhere as "a depot derailment". I think this means that the train has blocked the access to and from the sidings north of the station.

 

[Ianno87]

Appears to be a low speed derailment in carriage sidings.

Lots of short forms and cancellations on my way in this morning on both GA and GN as it appears to have trapped virtually everything in the sidings.

 

[PHILIPE]

NRE describe it as Operating Incident

 

[arb]

More trains that usual in the sidings as I came into Cambridge from the north this morning. I didn't see anything that looked obviously derailed, but one line within the sidings was blocked by a traffic cone with a red flag sticking out of the top of it!

 

[jopsuk]

a friend (locked account on twitter) posted a picture taken this afternoon of a large group of orange clad workers apparently pushing the derailed electrostar back from points within the yard

 

[SPADTrap]

387 128 (I think) was derailed within Cambridge Carriage Sidings which also damaged some signalling cables and the points themselves. It took a while for the BRUFF team to be assembled.

 

[SpacePhoenix]

387 128 (I think) was derailed within Cambridge Carriage Sidings which also damaged some signalling cables and the points themselves. It took a while for the BRUFF team to be assembled.

What's "BRUFF" short for?

 

[SPADTrap]

What's "BRUFF" short for?

I don't know, historically it was the manufacturer of many engineering vehicles but it's always what I've known the rerailing crane and crew known as.

 

[Bald Rick]

British Rail Universal F**Up Fixer

The last two may or may not be correct.

 

[Ploughman]

Not sure of the actual meaning of the term, but since at least the 1980's it has been understood to refer to a Road Rail equipped lorry.
This is crewed by a team from a local depot such as Knottingley who then rerail any vehicles at an incident site, that do not require crane work.

 

[SPADTrap]

Not sure of the actual meaning of the term, but since at least the 1980's it has been understood to refer to a Road Rail equipped lorry.
This is crewed by a team from a local depot such as Knottingley who then rerail any vehicles at an incident site, that do not require crane work.

Thank you for that

 

[dk1]

Points where changed under the train was what was circulating yesterday & med-screening done. Didn't seem too many cancellations just a lot of short formed cosy trains. Just what's needed on a chilly morning.

 

[QueensCurve]

British Rail Universal F**Up Fixer

The last two may or may not be correct.

Similar etimology presumably to BRUTE - British Rail Universal Trolley Equipment.

 

[bspahh]

What's "BRUFF" short for?

There is a pretty good description in this post http://www.bdca.org.uk/forumtwo/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=71 from a forum for the BreakDown Crane Association

 

[philthetube]

What's "BRUFF" short for?

I Started a thread about a year ago concerning things on the railway no one knew the origins of, or reasons for but got no response, this question would have been a candidate.

 

[talltim]

BRUFF was a company based in Suckley, Warks, who among other things converted a fleet of 30 Bedford lorries to road-rail vehicles used by the rerailing teams in the 80s/90s. BRUFF then became a generic name for the rerailing team.
The company started in the 30s by making sprout and hop picking machinery.