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She's mildly irritated because it means she won't get a full refund, even though she will be back at EXD» under 10 minutes later than she should have been, and is in first. Elle veut le beurre et l'argent du beurre, donc ? |
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« Reply #706 on: December 03, 2017, 20:33:58 » |
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She's mildly irritated because it means she won't get a full refund, even though she will be back at EXD» under 10 minutes later than she should have been, and is in first. Elle veut le beurre et l'argent du beurre, donc ? Ha! Je me suis presque pissé en riant! Oui, c'est vrai! Mais comment savais-tu qu'elle parle français, comme vous et son père? |
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« Reply #707 on: December 03, 2017, 20:39:38 » |
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I'm sure everyone will feel better for knowing that SNCF▸ can do these things so much - er - better?
Paris Montparnasse has been closed since 01:30, aside from a very limited service using Paris Austerlitz. Service will restart tomorrow morning, or at least SNCF say it will. This is not due to old hardware that was damaged during an update, but the software equivalent - a major upgrade that has gone wrong. Oops.
https://www.lci.fr/societe/en-direct-bug-informatique-a-montparnasse-la-sncf-annonce-un-retour-a-la-normale-lundi-matin-2072326.htmlAccording to this news article, Patrick Jeantet, the president of SNCF Reseau (the infrastructure owner), has been summoned to the office of Elisabeth Borne, the French Transport Minister, tomorrow morning at 0900 to explain what happened. So has Mark Carne has been called urgently to Chris Grayling's office? No, thought not...
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Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly, or a RUD, during ascent,”
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Paddington line incident being discussed on an alternative forum: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/major-disruption-at-paddington-3rd-dec-2017.157681/The debate includes some comments reflecting a sense of inevitability that it's going to take three hours to remove a failed train, and others that refer to the modern-ish practice of a risk assessment. What do readers think? Has the railway lost ability to recover from problems compared with 20th century rail? Can anything be done? |
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« Reply #709 on: December 03, 2017, 21:10:56 » |
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I expect he has been on the phone .................. trains disrupted to and from the PM' s constituency is bad karma "It was Network Rail, Prime Minister, not me and GWR▸ . And as you are no doubt aware, you can't believe everything you see on a computer..." |
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« Reply #710 on: December 03, 2017, 21:17:16 » |
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Paddington line incident being discussed on an alternative forum: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/major-disruption-at-paddington-3rd-dec-2017.157681/The debate includes some comments reflecting a sense of inevitability that it's going to take three hours to remove a failed train, and others that refer to the modern-ish practice of a risk assessment. What do readers think? Has the railway lost ability to recover from problems compared with 20th century rail? Can anything be done? contingency plan = Cross fingers & hope for the best........if the worst happens, run away & hide. |
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« Reply #711 on: December 03, 2017, 22:16:14 » |
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GWR▸ contingency plan = Cross fingers & hope for the best........if the worst happens, run away & hide.
I know that you think that GWR is the embodiment of everything that is incompetent, but If I am not mistaken they do not operate frieght trains, nor do they run the infrastructure - so what are they supposed to do about it? |
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« Reply #712 on: December 03, 2017, 22:27:02 » |
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Agreed - in a situation like this, GWR▸ know little more than the throng in the station concourse. It looks as if as soon as there was space to run a train, they started with the longest distance journeys, which is sensible. How you can manage that sort of situation, with trains stranded where they shouldn't be and drivers running out of hours beats me, and I take my hat off to the back room staff who do it.
It was, according to another forum, probably a NR» maintenance train that will be spending tonight in the naughty siding. The irony!
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« Reply #713 on: December 03, 2017, 22:59:17 » |
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At one point the plan was to split the train and take it in different directions to nearby loops.
In the end the whole train was moved at walking pace to Hayes loop.
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« Reply #714 on: December 10, 2017, 10:29:07 » |
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Alterations to services between Oxford and Reading
Due to a fault with the signalling system between Oxford and Reading some lines are blocked.
Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed by up to 60 minutes or revised. Disruption is expected until 12:30 10/12.
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« Reply #715 on: December 10, 2017, 10:57:30 » |
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Alterations to services between Oxford and Reading
Due to a fault with the signalling system between Oxford and Reading some lines are blocked.
Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed by up to 60 minutes or revised. Disruption is expected until 12:30 10/12.
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« Reply #716 on: December 10, 2017, 11:00:52 » |
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Quite heavy snowfall affecting Didcot northwards, gets worse the further north towards Birmingham you go.
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« Reply #717 on: December 10, 2017, 11:10:24 » |
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Also now: Alterations to services between Reading and Swindon
Due to a fault with the signalling system between Reading and Swindon some lines are blocked.
Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed by up to 60 minutes or revised. Disruption is expected until 13:15 10/12.
Snow in Didcot is about 3-4cm at present but there have been periods when it has been a bit sleety.
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« Reply #718 on: December 10, 2017, 11:29:24 » |
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Signal at Didcot went down just after 1000, and has been causing problems since then. Thats before much (any?) snow fell there, & I suspect isn't weather related.
Getting NR» staff there might be, from wherever they might be, of course.
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« Reply #719 on: December 10, 2017, 11:51:12 » |
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Signal at Didcot went down just after 1000, and has been causing problems since then. Thats before much (any?) snow fell there, & I suspect isn't weather related.
Getting NR» staff there might be, from wherever they might be, of course.
It was snowing in Didcot from before 6am. This may of course prove to have nothing to do with the root cause of the signalling problems though. |
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