The Northern Briton - 28/9/19 - Stuck at Doncaster

[malc-c]

Seems 90020 filed this morning, limping into Doncaster 70 minutes late. - At the time of posting (13:30) the carriages are still there awaiting the coupling of Tornado....

My sympathies to anyone stuck on the train.....

 

[Edders23]

wouldn't be the first rail tour to get into difficulties .........or the last

 

[3270]

67020 allocated fron Tyne Yard to Kings Cross instead of 90020 on 1Z72: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U54639/2019/09/28/advanced

 

[philjo]

I was on this tour.
The 90 had problems releasing its brakes. So it was unable to move out of the way to allow Tornado to couple to the coaches. Tornado was used to move the 90 and dump it in a parallel siding. Though this required a 6 part move until Tornado was able to couple to the coaches.
So left Doncaster 2 hours late but Tornado gained back about 25 minutes of this by Carlisle.

On the way back the train was held north of Doncaster for about an hour as the line in front was blocked by a failed ballast cleaning train - apparently this was almost 1 mile long so it took a while to for the brakes at the rear to be checked after the rescue loco had coupled to it.
I see it lost more time after Stevenage and arrived at Kings Cross at 0134 - was Kings Cross still open then, as I think the last train would have left by then?

 

[malc-c]

Oh my.... I take it you didn't do the final leg to Kings Cross given your comments at the end. I wonder how people managed getting home, or if they could claim for overnight stays in hotels from the tour operator ?

 

[trebor79]

Oh my.... I take it you didn't do the final leg to Kings Cross given your comments at the end. I wonder how people managed getting home, or if they could claim for overnight stays in hotels from the tour operator ?

Doubt they'd be able to claim anything. The terms and conditions are usually very clear that they will get you back to your starting station (where the rail tour picked you up, not necessarily where you started your journey). Sometimes you will get a fairly insignificantly valued voucher for a future tour.