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Title: Poor Rail Conditions Causing Disruption (08/10/2008) Post by: Lee on October 08, 2008, 09:49:17 From the FGW website :
Line problem between Bodmin Parkway and Liskeard. Train services between Bodmin Parkway and Liskeard have been disrupted due to poor rail conditions.Short notice alterations and delays of up to 125 minutes can be expected. 05:41 Penzance to London Paddington due 11:23 This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Totnes, Newton Abbot, Tiverton Parkway, Taunton, Castle Cary, Westbury and Pewsey.This is due to poor rail conditions. 09:02 Newton Abbot to Plymouth due 09:48 This train has been cancelled.This is due to poor rail conditions. Title: Re: Poor Rail Conditions Causing Disruption (08/10/2008) Post by: richard bickford on October 08, 2008, 10:07:30 Golden Hind couldn't get up the hill at Bodmin.
Title: Re: Poor Rail Conditions Causing Disruption (08/10/2008) Post by: eightf48544 on October 08, 2008, 14:09:45 Golden Hind couldn't get up the hill at Bodmin. Is it an HST? Don't they have sand? I would have thought even if the front power car was slipping the rear would still grip. Title: Re: Poor Rail Conditions Causing Disruption (08/10/2008) Post by: Tim on October 08, 2008, 14:23:32 I suspect there might have been less than full power available to the train as well as poor rail conditions, but i'll see if anyone better informed than me knows anything before speculating further
Title: Re: Poor Rail Conditions Causing Disruption (08/10/2008) Post by: Chris2 on October 08, 2008, 15:07:20 The golden hind departed Bodmin around 0615 this morning, heading towards Liskeard, but was unable to get up the hill, so it ended up reversing to Bodmin, where it waited for sand to be applied to the rails. It left Bodmin again about ten past eight.
Apparantly it was a combination of leaves and dew that caused the bad rail conditions. That is what the train manager said when asked. Title: Re: Poor Rail Conditions Causing Disruption (08/10/2008) Post by: devon_metro on October 08, 2008, 18:19:55 Golden Hind couldn't get up the hill at Bodmin. Is it an HST? Don't they have sand? Nope !!! This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |