Remember waiting for my grandparents at Cheltenham in the early 80s and train was a failed HST hauled by a peak. Likely was a 46 but I don't know as was very young and didn't collect numbers but could recognise different types do know it wasn't a 37 or a 40.
There is at least one other shot of that exact working on Flickr funnily enough!
What would the problem have been? Weren't they designed to run blunt end first when required?I can only recall rescues by 47's and 56's. I had one HST expire to be rescued by the dirtiest class 47 possible. Faded blue paint, oil stains, brown coating. Went like the clappers. Massive louds of black smoke on pull away from every station.
56 rescues were only short distance - assume they were nearest available loco.
EDIT - I had a DVT fail on a southbound service at Doncaster with the 91 run round. Sadly it took so long to hook up that the service was cancelled. Still haven't had a blunt end run on a 91
Probably a TDM (the push-pull control system) failure.
Indeed, seems most likely. Also happened on the West Coast too of course; plenty of pics of 86s/87s/90s in front of the DVT well into the Virgin era.