Cornish delays

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[GBM]

0503. 0605, 0710 Penzance to Paddington cancelled, as is/was everything else in between so far.

[old original]

Query - Why is the Falmouth branch at a standstill when the power failure is at Roskear?

The two 150 units are stabled at Penzance overnight.

[Witham Bobby]

Delays to services between Plymouth and Penzance
Following failure of the electricity supply earlier today between Penzance and Truro all lines are now open. Disruption is expected until 12:00 12/12.
Train services between Plymouth and Penzance are returning to normal but some services may still be delayed.
Customer Advice
Due to an earlier power cut affecting the signalling power supply, trains were unable to run this morning.
A generator has been arranged and power has been restored to the signalling system allowing train services to run.

Perhaps a permanent standby generator would be a better option than having to source one during a failure of supply to what appears to be a location of considerable importance to the railway in Cornwall?

[REVUpminster]

I wonder if this power failure was due to renewables, wind and solar, only providing 6% of electricity on the 13th.
Daily Telegraph reporting gas was supplying 72.5%, Nuclear 10%, wood burning 6.6%, wind 5.8%, solar nil and the rest from interconnecter cables..

[ellendune]

I wonder if this power failure was due to renewables, wind and solar, only providing 6% of electricity on the 13th.
Daily Telegraph reporting gas was supplying 72.5%, Nuclear 10%, wood burning 6.6%, wind 5.8%, solar nil and the rest from interconnecter cables..

If it had been there would have been major disruption on the grid not just a small part of Cornwall. 

Perhaps a permanent standby generator would be a better option than having to source one during a failure of supply to what appears to be a location of considerable importance to the railway in Cornwall?

Given modern battery technology perhaps even a large standby battery. Standby generators are notoriously unreliable (as machines don't like standing idle).

[RailCornwall]

National Grid are still fixing issues across Cornwall (and seemingly their whole distribution area) residual from last weekend, around 6,000 properties being cut off today NE of Redruth not being unusual. Unsurprising considering the number of issues they've had to deal with following the storm, I am expecting these to continue up to Christmas as I've heard of many 'make do and get power back on' rather than 'complete the repair and fully test for resilience' repairs being implemented in the days following. This resilience work is being undertaken now.