Storms Eunice, Franklin, Gladys from 18/2/2022

[whole diary]

[Timmer]

150248/150265/150246 are working 1A86 14:15 Exeter St Davids to Reading:

https://twitter.com/Tall_Controller/status/1495403416293683204

Looks like it’s forming 1C92 1836 Paddington to Exeter St David’s starting at Reading.

[RichardB]

150248/150265/150246 are working 1A86 14:15 Exeter St Davids to Reading:

https://twitter.com/Tall_Controller/status/1495403416293683204

I know it's only sensible to run a train like this as far as Reading but it would have been quite something to have seen it at Paddington.   Must be a very long time since a Cl150 was there and I doubt a green one ever has been.   Hope there's plenty of space on up and down workings for the passengers (ie it's not too full)

[Celestial]

Just passed through Melksham to add to the excitement of any passengers expecting a journey via Newbury.

[Timmer]

Hope there's plenty of space on up and down workings for the passengers (ie it's not too full)

You’d be a bit gutted if you had a first class ticket, but probably just grateful the train you are on is actually running.

Talking of first class on a 150, did any ever have a first class section just behind the driver’s cab in their very early days? I remember there used to be a sliding door to that section of the train.

[bradshaw]

According to Journey Check the Waterloo-Exeter service truncated to Yeovil Jct-Basingstoke, nothing west of Yeovil.

https://www.journeycheck.com/swr/

[RichardB]

Hope there's plenty of space on up and down workings for the passengers (ie it's not too full)

You’d be a bit gutted if you had a first class ticket, but probably just grateful the train you are on is actually running.

Talking of first class on a 150, did any ever have a first class section just behind the driver’s cab in their very early days? I remember there used to be a sliding door to that section of the train.

Completely agree re the Sprinter special. You'd just be glad there was a train (and you'll be able to get at least the first class bit of the fare back.)

That lockable sliding door was to create a secure area for postbags, Red Star parcels etc, I believe.  I don't think any 150s ever had a first class section.

[RichardB]

150248/150265/150246 are working 1A86 14:15 Exeter St Davids to Reading:

https://twitter.com/Tall_Controller/status/1495403416293683204

Not doing too bad, all things considered and given the 75MPH top speed.  34 late passing Didcot Parkway  https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:14087/2022-02-20/detailed

[jamestheredengine]

Just passed through Melksham to add to the excitement of any passengers expecting a journey via Newbury.

Given how much time the train an hour behind it is losing on the Berks and Hants, that was probably an excellent call.

[a-driver]

Not doing too bad, all things considered and given the 75MPH top speed.  34 late passing Didcot Parkway  https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:14087/2022-02-20/detailed

Blanket 50mph speed restriction in force. 

[grahame]

From ITV

Potential 'Storm Gladys' could hit UK^▸ (United Kingdom) just days after havoc of Storms Franklin, Eunice and Dudley

[RichardB]

150248/150265/150246 are working 1A86 14:15 Exeter St Davids to Reading:

https://twitter.com/Tall_Controller/status/1495403416293683204

Not doing too bad, all things considered and given the 75MPH top speed.  34 late passing Didcot Parkway  https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:14087/2022-02-20/detailed

And here it is at Didcot  https://twitter.com/TonyP146/status/1495465089469755397

[stuving]

It's getting quite squally here, though not like Friday of course - it's dark, and there's more rain. Meanwhile, SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) have at last managed to get a train all the way from Waterloo to Reading. Nominally that's 2C51 and arrived 47L at 19:04, but the timetable (even as amended) has little to do with it. There have been a handful of trains so far, all of them part-route but in overlapping parts, which is odd.

[RichardB]

 Cl150s 19 02 Reading to Exeter back the same way they came.  https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:14108/2022-02-20/detailed

[stuving]

Storm FRANKLIN it is ... then - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60452334

Storm Franklin is forecast to hit the UK^▸ (United Kingdom) after Storm Eunice left 1.4 million homes without power.
The Met Office has issued an amber wind warning for Northern Ireland for Monday morning and yellow ones for parts of the UK from Sunday.
This comes days after one of the worst storms in the UK in decades in which three people died.

I've been a bit surprised not to hear, at least from meteorologists, a clearer explanation that having big storms in sequence is to be expected. It's not a case of one is rare, so two close together ought to be very rare indeed - these are not independent events. We have heard that a very strong jet stream spins them up and guides them, so it's not really surprising that it can do the same trick again while it's still as strong, and if it's not moved the resulting storm will follow a similar track.

There have been a number of examples, the clearest being the millennium storms Lothar (26th) and Martin (27th December 1999), both of which landed on the Atlantic coast of France. While less powerful, France also had a pair on 12 and 13 January 2004 and four in a row on 2-5 January 1998.

[BBM]

150248/150265/150246 are working 1A86 14:15 Exeter St Davids to Reading:

https://twitter.com/Tall_Controller/status/1495403416293683204

Not doing too bad, all things considered and given the 75MPH top speed.  34 late passing Didcot Parkway  https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:14087/2022-02-20/detailed

And here it is at Didcot  https://twitter.com/TonyP146/status/1495465089469755397

And here it is at Melksham: https://twitter.com/25kV/status/1495497305935745026