What sort of fault..

bobm

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What sort of fault..

« on: September 30, 2011, 19:11:18 »

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16:36 London Paddington to Plymouth due 20:14
This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Newbury and Hungerford.This is due to a train fault.

Last Updated: 30/09/2011 17:10

Trying to work out what's behind this. Can't be a problem with selective door opening as Newbury can take a full HST^▸ . It might be another train broken down and occupying the platform line at Newbury - but why would that affect Hungerford? Train called at Pewsey so can't have been diverted.

Perhaps I just have too much time on my hands...... Grin


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ellendune

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Re: What sort of fault..

« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2011, 20:19:05 »

Is it just trying to pick up time. There are likely to be alternatives to Newbury and even Hungerford, but not Pewsey.


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Ollie

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Re: What sort of fault..

« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2011, 23:07:28 »

Don't have exact info, but it did run normal route after the set was turned using Reading Triangle, so must have been a powercar issue.


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readytostart

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Re: What sort of fault..

« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2011, 00:10:20 »

Genius has the delay slightly off but the reason is as follows:

Incidents and Delays
Impact   Description
17 mins   SOUTHCOTJ - NEWBURY (Ref 245940)
M8 DMU^▸ OTHER CMEE 43027 RDG^‡ 1c88 def air con rdg

Incident 245940
Delays
17 mins   SOUTHCOTJ - NEWBURY
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TVSC^» SSM advises that the driver on 1C88 1636 Paddington to Plymouth has reported defective air con on the leading power car and requires to turn set via Reading triangle.


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