Whether it was infrastructure or train caused the initial damage on Monday, the damaged pantograph involved looks like has cause damage elsewhere
Have all three incidents occured on the up relief? Or is there a suggestion that one errant set has been out and about damaging
OLE▸ wherever it goes, but continuing in service because it's not been identified as the culprit?
I don't know if all were on the same line. Although I am not a contact systems engineer (I'm a power distribution engineer) I've been around the knitting long enough to understand a few of the problems encountered after an OLE head span de-wirement. It is not unknown for there to be issues for several days in an area after the type of incident on Monday, a headspan can sometimes fail on a different road to the original in a different location because of forces applied to the wire by a damaged pan can find a weakness.
Headspan construction allowed British Rail to cost effectively electrify the
WCML▸ north of Weaver Jcn to Scotland, the
ECML▸ , BedPan, etc. Pre privatisation
BR▸ had the manpower, equipment and track access to maintain headspan
Its posible there is a rouge 345 that has a suspension or Pan problem, another could be something as daft as a software update on the 345 that has altered the suspension characteristics.
There will be senior
NR» Region and
TOC▸ engineers looking at all the posible causes ................... mean time the finance and contracts folks will be claiming and counter claiming
Calling all cars, calling all cars be on the lookout for a
rouge train I repeat be on the lookout for a
rouge train last seen heading towards London.
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