Unusual Avanti working at Cheddington today

[oversteer]

Today about 3.30pm I was on a walk just south of Cheddington near the railway line - I could hear a train rumbling southbound very slowly, sounding its horn every 5s

I couldn’t see it due to the cutting.

I believe it was 5Z14 which for some reason started at Cheddington then ran wrong side(?) back to Tring.

Anyone know what was going on with it? Why the horn sounding?

 

[Defiance149]

390104 was disabled at Cheddington yesterday morning, 5Z14 was it being recovered to Wembley by 57308 after blocking the down fast for 33 hours.

 

[oversteer]

Thanks, looks like they couldn’t get the 57 attached on the country end so had to go south instead!

 

[Stossgebet]

As for the horn. It is a rule book requirement to sound it frequently, when making a wrong direction move.

 

[E6007]

It was working 1S37 0603 Euston to Glasgow on Saturday morning when it became disabled.

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C49501/2024-12-28/detailed#allox_id=0

A rescue was attempted Saturday afternoon but failed. I don't know why.

 

[Tilting007]

It was working 1S37 0603 Euston to Glasgow on Saturday morning when it became disabled.

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C49501/2024-12-28/detailed#allox_id=0

A rescue was attempted Saturday afternoon but failed. I don't know why.

Could not attach the loco or raise the good pantograph on the Pendo…

 

[TurboMan]

As for the horn. It is a rule book requirement to sound it frequently, when making a wrong direction move.

Not any more it isn't - it went from TW1 at the last update and was only still in there as an overnight, as the instruction was withdrawn from TW7 in 2014.

 

[CHAPS2034]

390104 was disabled at Cheddington yesterday morning, 5Z14 was it being recovered to Wembley by 57308
after blocking the down fast for 33 hours

It was working 1S37 0603 Euston to Glasgow on Saturday morning when it became disabled.

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C49501/2024-12-28/detailed#allox_id=0

What happened to the passengers on this? Did it manage to stop in the platform? Or did they have to evacuate?

 

[warwickshire]

It was working 1S37 0603 Euston to Glasgow on Saturday morning when it became disabled.

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C49501/2024-12-28/detailed#allox_id=0

A rescue was attempted Saturday afternoon but failed. I don't know why.

Driver was out of hours on the rescue locomotive, due to the difficulties encountered and couldn't work any longer,

However good pantograph had a air leak issue, so had difficulties raising, and the other end with the bad pantograph had difficulties in coupling with the coupler end on pendolino refusing to couple with the locomotive,

Meanwhile the pendolino earlier on was successfully evacuated with another train,

From a very reliable source of mine.

 

[warwickshire]

What happened to the passengers on this? Did it manage to stop in the platform? Or did they have to evacuate?

Evacuated. Successful

 

[Tilting007]

They were evacuated to a Pendolino that stopped alongside.
33 hours included a possession of the Fast Lines of over 16 hours when work was carried out to repair the OLE. Nothing happened with the train in this time.

 

[dk1]

As for the horn. It is a rule book requirement to sound it frequently, when making a wrong direction move.

That was dropped from this month. I forgot to do it on a SIM session a few weeks ago and was let off as it wasn’t going to be needed going forward.

 

[Stossgebet]

That was dropped from this month. I forgot to do it on a SIM session a few weeks ago and was let off as it wasn’t going to be needed going forward.

Of course. It is now what might be called 'an old habit'. Not that wrong direction moves themselves are habitual

 

[QueensCurve]

The Pendoliini seem to be involved in a lot of these major failures these days. In this case was it the OHLE or the pantograph that was the initial failure?

 

[Tilting007]

Looks to be the infrastructure, although I believe there is a possibility of something being thrown onto the OLE, or at least the potential of something other than asset failure.

 

[CHAPS2034]

Thanks for the news of the successful evacuation warwickshire and Tilting007

I assumed something like that, or the press + social media would have been all over it and no doubt someone would have started a thread on here.