Pendolino parked at Edge Hill

[joke2711]

Noticed that yesterday there was a Pendalino parked on Platform 3 at Edge Hill station with the Virgin Staff on the platform and a wheelchair ramp at one of the doors ... just being nosey really but does anyone know what was happening... it was around mid afternoon?

Thanks ...

 

[greaterwest]

Looking at realtimetrains the train in question was 1F15, the 1107 London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street; it was cancelled due to a problem with the brakes.

http://web.archive.org/web/20160531...trains.co.uk/train/Y82398/2016/05/30/advanced

For future reference, the spelling is Pendolino, not Pendalino.

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Looking at realtimetrains the train in question was 1F15, the 1107 London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street; it was cancelled due to a problem with the brakes.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160531...trains.co.uk/train/Y82398/2016/05/30/advanced

I hope the next local train to show up at Edge Hill to deliver the passengers to Lime St was not a single-unit 142!
Looks like it might have been a Warrington BQ service.

 

[notlob.divad]

I hope the next local train to show up at Edge Hill to deliver the passengers to Lime St was not a single-unit 142!
Looks like it might have been a Warrington BQ service.

A WBQ service would likely be a 319 assuming Northern had enough available.

However, it would be the wrong platform and assuming the wheelchair ramp was for someone in a wheelchair, it is not the easiest journey to get from Platform 4 to Platform 2 and not really do-able in the 4 minutes they had available.

Interesting that the 1347 which was presumably the return working was 'cancelled due to a problem with the doors'. Equally it must have been stuck there for a significant chunk of time because the following Virgin service was diverted via platform 2 with nothing else passing platform 4 until the 1500 arrival of the Scarborough service.