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Title: Birmingham New Street closed? (24/4/10) Post by: Phil on April 24, 2010, 09:23:16 Just picked up something on Twitter about Birmingham New Street being closed. More toast being burned, or is it something serious?
Title: Re: Birmingham New Street closed? (24/4/10) Post by: readytostart on April 24, 2010, 11:49:43 Just picked up something on Twitter about Birmingham New Street being closed. More toast being burned, or is it something serious? I think it was a contractor drilling through a power cable, I'll paraphrase my BlackBerry report on it: Local power failure, no lifts or escalators, ticket office unable to issue any tickets, TVMs out, CIS screens not working, limited PA announcements. The station was later evacuated, presumably the emergency lighting had also failed at that point. Title: Re: Birmingham New Street closed? (24/4/10) Post by: brompton rail on April 24, 2010, 13:19:27 According to NRE there are delays of upto 20 mins on trains via BHM. Expected to be cleared by 13:30 (i.e. in 10 mins time). Presumably they have got the candles lit again - whoops no smoke as BHM is an "underground" station.
Title: Re: Birmingham New Street closed? (24/4/10) Post by: readytostart on April 24, 2010, 20:25:28 Still on going as far as I'm aware, XC are using the Virgin roll-over Voyager as a mess room for breaks.
Title: Re: Birmingham New Street closed? (24/4/10) Post by: inspector_blakey on April 24, 2010, 20:33:32 Covered in a brief news article on the BBC website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/8641576.stm).
Title: Re: Birmingham New Street closed? (24/4/10) Post by: Chris from Nailsea on April 26, 2010, 20:05:26 More details, from the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/8643795.stm):
Quote Network Rail is upgrading platform one, which is the first piece of work to start in the main part of the station. Part of the station is still without power after water got into the electrics on Friday. A Network Rail spokesman said trains, information boards and ticket machines were operating again but shops on the concourse were closed. Three large generators have been installed to power information boards and machines after Friday evening's incident left the station without power. Lifts are working once more although escalators are not, to conserve power, the spokesman said. He added that the power shortage was not caused by the redevelopment but by contractors working in a toilet block. Title: Re: Birmingham New Street closed? (24/4/10) Post by: Worcester_Passenger on April 27, 2010, 09:40:38 Travelled through New Street yesterday morning (Mon Apr 27) at 08:45-09:00.
The WHSmiths, Upper Crust, Pasty Shop etc on the bridge were all closed and firmly roller-shuttered. All of the passenger information screens failed at one point, but were restored after about 5 minutes. I'll post a photo later on today. I'd expected that the PA would go into some sort of emergency mode, with plenty of announcements to compensate for the dark screens - but that didn't happen. Title: Re: Birmingham New Street closed? (24/4/10) Post by: Chris from Nailsea on April 27, 2010, 13:50:19 This topic was originally in our 'frequent posters' area, but as the problems at Birmingham New Street seem to be persisting, I've moved it to our public area.
Chris. :) Title: Re: Birmingham New Street closed? (24/4/10) Post by: Phil on April 27, 2010, 14:22:16 Thanks, Chris. I had wondered. Never expected it to drag on quite this long to be honest!
Title: Re: Birmingham New Street closed? (24/4/10) Post by: Worcester_Passenger on April 28, 2010, 01:32:22 Blank screens on Monday...
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