Problems at Pulborough

[ushawk]

Theres been an operating incident at Pulborough and buses are now replacing trains between Horsham and Pulborough, in addition to the buses already running between Pulborough and Barnham/Littlehampton.

Trains on the Arun Valley were terminating at Pulborough, so would the disruption possibly be caused by a faulty crossover ? The Southern Journey Check website is showing the disruption as "emergency engineering work".

 

[francisoldfield]

the crossover at Pulborough is known to break because it is rarely used. I'm not sure if that is the reason or not.

I'm trying to find out from a friend who works at Southern what is happening?

EDIT: it does appears that it is emergency engineering works, not entirely sure what it is exactly though

 

[tsr]

The incident has now cleared from NRE. However, there are still a couple of delays and cancellations.

 

[Chris125]

Ah, this explains why i had to stand between Vic and Shoreham on my diverted Portsmouth train - not helped by the PHM portion being only 4 carriages long after Haywards Heath.

Chris

 

[ushawk]

Ah, this explains why i had to stand between Vic and Shoreham on my diverted Portsmouth train - not helped by the PHM portion being only 4 carriages long after Haywards Heath.

Chris

The train splitting at HHE usually alternates between 4 or 8 coaches going to Eastbourne or Worthing - just unlucky that that particular service was 4 coaches. Usually always the more empty section has the most coaches !!