Just read that Brockenhurst was evacuated today due to a Voyager fire link to website below - don't trust them for newsworthiness however: https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/17256066.brockenhurst-station-evacuated-after-train-blaze
What don't you trust about their newsworthiness? Is that a fake news story? Didn't the fire occur? Wasn't the line c!osed? Did the fire crew stay at base having tea? I don't know whether to believe the news or you....
Looks like one of the Driving Ends thats affected. I'm sure that will do wonders for the rest of the stretched fleet..
The whole Wessex outer is experiencing issues because of the fire and also the earlier points problem at Portcreek. Delays of 100 minutes were being reported but recovery is ongoing.
Arent there 2 spare Voyager driving vehicles at Central Rivers? If so and the fire was contained to the driving vehicle onl6 the unit should be back in service pretty quickly
I thought some sort of swap was done to get those into service by reducing two 5-cars down to 4 to provide two middle cars, i.e. 2 x 5 -> 3 x 4.
I wonder if it's more the cleaning side (IE, gunk getting stuck in places) or mechanical - perhaps they're just coming to their mid-life point like cars in that many things start going wrong/need replacing at the 100K mile mark on many vehicles.