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Title: Line problem between Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads - 20/12/2010 Post by: thetrout on December 20, 2010, 13:24:30 From FGW Website
Quote Train services are being disrupted due to an operating incident between Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads.Short notice alterations and delays of up to 30 minutes can be expected. :-X ::) :o Title: Re: Line problem between Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads - 20/12/2010 Post by: Chris from Nailsea on December 20, 2010, 14:33:59 Update, from National Rail (http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/sac3cb8f602041bf82308ab8c5b578a2/details.html):
Quote An operating incident has occurred near Weston-super-Mare. Because of this, there are delays of up to 45 minutes between Bristol Temple Meads and Taunton. These delays are expected to last until further notice. Title: Re: Line problem between Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads - 20/12/2010 Post by: Chris from Nailsea on December 20, 2010, 14:41:23 It's apparently causing some rather bizarre details on the Nailsea & Backwell live departures (http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/en/s/ldbboard/dep/NLS/?ar=true) board:
Quote 14:03 Exeter St David's 09:24 279 mins early 14:38 Weston-super-Mare Cancelled 14:57 Cardiff Central 15:15 18 mins late 15:03 Taunton Delayed ::) Title: Re: Line problem between Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads - 20/12/2010 Post by: Brucey on December 20, 2010, 14:45:03 However the early 14:03 is 887 minutes late at Temple Meads
Title: Re: Line problem between Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads - 20/12/2010 Post by: devon_metro on December 20, 2010, 14:46:34 There was an HST sat in Weston-super-Mare when I drove over the railway bridge earlier, and similarly what looked like the same HST approx. 1 hour later.
Title: Re: Line problem between Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads - 20/12/2010 Post by: jdw.wor on December 20, 2010, 18:04:00 The 07.40 Paignton-Paddington (which started at Newton Abbott) appeared to disappear off all FGW and National Rail sites after arriving late at Weston-S-M this morning. Was this the begining of the problems?
Title: Re: Line problem between Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads - 20/12/2010 Post by: JayMac on December 20, 2010, 18:12:45 A trawl of other rail forums shows speculation that there was a SPAD at Weston-super-Mare leading to fouling of a set of points. Hasten to add this is rumour with no official verification.
I have a fair idea of which service may have been involved in the incident, but in fairness to the driver I think it not wise that we speculate further here. Even if the incident is totally the fault of the weather. With my Moderator hat on could I also ask other forum members not to speculate as to the details of the specific service involved. SPADs are a serious operating incident and no doubt a full investigation will be carried out in due course. Title: Re: Line problem between Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads - 20/12/2010 Post by: thetrout on December 20, 2010, 18:16:17 Sounds like somebody could be in the dog house............ ::) :o :-X
Title: Re: Line problem between Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads - 20/12/2010 Post by: dmutony on December 21, 2010, 14:07:37 confirmed there was a spad at W-S-M and line was closed due to investigation work being carried out!!!!
Title: Re: Line problem between Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads - 20/12/2010 Post by: smithy on December 21, 2010, 19:30:01 as above was a SPAD at uphill involving a hst on way up from south west causing damage to points that were set for a train coming off single line.
Title: Re: Line problem between Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads - 20/12/2010 Post by: super tm on December 21, 2010, 20:27:04 as above was a SPAD at uphill involving a hst on way up from south west causing damage to points that were set for a train coming off single line. I heard it was train coming off the branch from Weston. Thats what rumours are like ! Title: Re: Line problem between Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads - 20/12/2010 Post by: Chris from Nailsea on December 21, 2010, 20:46:58 My own source (someone official in the office at Bristol) confirmed to me earlier that it was 'what smithy said'. :-X
Title: Re: Line problem between Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads - 20/12/2010 Post by: TheLastMinute on January 31, 2011, 13:11:20 There's a paragraph referring to this incident in the RAIB report into a near miss involving a freight train and two
passenger trains at Carstairs on 22nd December 2009 that was released today.... Quote from: http://www.raib.gov.uk/cms_resources/110131_R022011_Carstairs.pdf 136 More recently, on 20 December 2010, an incident occurred in snowy conditions at Uphill junction, near to Weston-super-Mare when a passenger train passed a red signal by about 375 metres and ran through a set of trailing points, causing damage to them. This train was a service from Newton Abbot to London Paddington and was formed by a High Speed Train (HST) which has coaches that are fitted with brake pads and discs. The train^s data recorder showed that the driver did not correctly carry out the instructions in Section 18 of module TW1 of the Rule Book relating to braking in snow conditions. While the driver did carry out running brake tests at the required frequency, he did not make a full service brake application and reduce the train^s speed by at least 10 mph (16 km/h). After this incident the train operating company reissued a notice to its drivers which mandated them to comply with the full requirements of the rules in Section 18 of module TW1 whenever there was snow lying on the ground. This was in addition to the requirement for drivers to apply these rules when snow is falling or fallen snow is being disturbed by the passage of trains. This notice was later withdrawn when the weather conditions improved. I would assume that there won't be a full report as they usually indicate when an event is still under investigation. TLM PS Mods - could we change the thread title please to reflect the now historical nature of the subject? Title: Re: Line problem between Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads - 20/12/2010 Post by: Chris from Nailsea on January 31, 2011, 17:47:55 PS Mods - could we change the thread title please to reflect the now historical nature of the subject? Done! ;) 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 |