OHL Damage Thorpe Le Soken

[LAX54]

Due to OHL damage at Thorpe le Soken there is no service from Clacton / Walton to Colchester this morning until approx 10am, one assumes AGA will have replacement buses running.

 

[Wivenswold]

I can't thank you enough Swills. You've saved my arthritis-ravaged legs a 20 minute walk to the station.

Looks bad by the way, disruption until at least midday. That's a lot of units currently trapped up at Clacton Yard.

 

[Bald Rick]

Another electrification done on the cheap (nearly 60 years ago)

 

[QueensCurve]

Due to OHL damage at Thorpe le Soken there is no service from Clacton / Walton to Colchester this morning until approx 10am, one assumes AGA will have replacement buses running.

Thorpe le Soken always seems a strange name to me. Is there a Thorpe le Bone-Dry?

 

[Wivenswold]

It's been a bad day on GA. OHL problems at Thorpe stopped the show until lunchtime.

Now there's an "incident" on the line and it looks like everything between Shenfield and Colchester is at a standstill.


Edit: A fatality at Chelmsford it would seem. Some of the passenger tweets once again showing no understanding of how railways work and no empathy towards the victim.

 

[D365]

Now there's an "incident" on the line and it looks like everything between Shenfield and Colchester is at a standstill.


Edit: A fatality at Chelmsford it would seem. Some of the passenger tweets once again showing no understanding of how railways work and no empathy towards the victim.

Looks like a thread has been opened for this incident.

 

[LAX54]

I can't thank you enough Swills. You've saved my arthritis-ravaged legs a 20 minute walk to the station.

Looks bad by the way, disruption until at least midday. That's a lot of units currently trapped up at Clacton Yard.

welcome .....went home 6am ...service not good, get back tonight service not good, all in all a pretty naff GEML day overall !

 

[ChiefPlanner]

Another electrification done on the cheap (nearly 60 years ago)

It was , remember , the first 25kV section on British Railways

 

[LAX54]

seems it was an argument between the 360's pan and the OHL........OHL lost !
(360 didn't fare well either )

 

[Bald Rick]

It was , remember , the first 25kV section on British Railways

Well I don't remember, far too young

 

[L&Y Robert]

Another electrification done on the cheap (nearly 60 years ago)

Lasted well, then, that cheap job - 60 years. Not bad. My car only lasted 11 years.