60033 'Tees Steel Express'
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Just to let people know, a Virgin Voyager (221135) at around 15.00 caught fire at Newcastle Central today!!! Not a pritty site I tell you!
Yeah,Once again I agree with youChaz said:Anyone actually stop to think about whether anyone got hurt rather than "Glad it was a Voyager" responses?
Once the media hears about it no doubt it will be more bad press for the Railways.....
Julian G said:Yeah,Once again I agree with you
Think about the people
How would you like it if you were in the Voyager with the flames?
no wonder the HSTs, 47s,86s were better!dvn1357 said:Worried. They are cramped, have no openable windows so you cant jump out. have doors that might not open if something went wrong and also have very thick glass!!
dvn1357 said:Worried. They are cramped, have no openable windows so you cant jump out. have doors that might not open if something went wrong and also have very thick glass!!
James 66526 said:Let's also remember that the diesel on DMUs are kept undrfloor. OIn HSTs it was only in 2 places and they were kept seperate from teh passengers. Just a thought...
James 66526 said:Let's also remember that the diesel on DMUs are kept undrfloor. OIn HSTs it was only in 2 places and they were kept seperate from teh passengers. Just a thought...
AlexS said:The fact it was in the station says it's fairly minor.
Chaz said:I think the fire could of started due to the engine overheating and thus getting to a point of setting alight. The cooling systems aren't up sadly.
Bombardier and Cummins have apparently come up with a fix and the problem sourced to a filter of some kind. My theory is that Voyager hasn't had the 'fix' yet.
It was just platforms 3 and 4 that were evacuated, and by all accounts it was a pretty minor fire (nothing much visible).TicketMan said:The train was at Platform 3, and it and the station was evacuated with no reported injuries. The train was later moved at the Fire Service's request.