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Title: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: bobm on April 17, 2018, 20:53:59 Reports of an HST power car on fire at Penzance station.
Station has been evacuated and closed. I understand it is the country end power car and is inside the covered area of the station. Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: SandTEngineer on April 17, 2018, 20:54:47 Seems that an HST Power Car has caught fire under the station roof:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1919259188107817&id=100000712645983 Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: SandTEngineer on April 17, 2018, 20:55:49 Sorry Bob, I was posting at the same time as you. There's a video link in my post. Moderators, please merge topics when you get a chance.
Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: bobm on April 17, 2018, 20:59:03 Sorry Bob, I was posting at the same time as you. There's a video link in my post. Moderators, please merge topics when you get a chance. Done Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: bobm on April 17, 2018, 21:01:18 Train involved had arrived as the 14:03 from London Paddington.
Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: SandTEngineer on April 17, 2018, 21:03:47 https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/penzance-railway-station-fire-smoke-1469988?utm_source=google_news&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google_news&utm_content=sitemap
Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: marky7890 on April 17, 2018, 21:38:34 43138 pouring out smoke.
Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: RailCornwall on April 17, 2018, 21:46:43 (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbApzHoX4AA9F-h.jpg)
As shared on Twitter https://twitter.com/leesearle/status/986334297203396611 Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: bobm on April 17, 2018, 22:48:26 The sleeper (21.45 to Paddington) left 52 minutes late but should make that up en route.
Suspect there will be one cancellation from Penzance in the morning unless quick repairs are possible as Long Rock will be an HST set short. Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: LiskeardRich on April 17, 2018, 23:37:55 The sleeper (21.45 to Paddington) left 52 minutes late but should make that up en route. Suspect there will be one cancellation from Penzance in the morning unless quick repairs are possible as Long Rock will be an HST set short. I’m in our Angarrack property, sleeper went by at roughly 2255. A HST in the up direction went past at 2235 but I havent worked out which one! Edit embarrassingly the 2235 up was a voyager. I guessed from engine tones! Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: bobm on April 17, 2018, 23:40:28 Uneducated guess - but perhaps it has been decided to send the damaged HST to Laira which is better equipped to give heavy maintenance to HSTs than Long Rock.
Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: LiskeardRich on April 17, 2018, 23:42:31 Being on the Penzance end at least it’s on the rear so can be pulled somewhere on one engine.
It was all smoke by all accounts. The orange lighting on the photos and videos is the station lighting! Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: grahame on April 18, 2018, 06:19:58 Suspect there will be one cancellation from Penzance in the morning unless quick repairs are possible as Long Rock will be an HST set short. Quote 09:00 Penzance to London Paddington due 14:01 09:00 Penzance to London Paddington due 14:01 will be started from Plymouth. It will no longer call at Penzance, St Erth, Camborne, Redruth, Truro, St Austell, Par, Bodmin Parkway and Liskeard. This is due to a fault on this train. Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: Bob_Blakey on April 18, 2018, 09:00:22 I couldn't help but have a good laugh over this piece of supposedly related journalism:
https://www.devonlive.com/news/local-news/fire-railway-station-sparks-disruption-1470015 (https://www.devonlive.com/news/local-news/fire-railway-station-sparks-disruption-1470015) Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: phile on April 18, 2018, 09:25:30 I couldn't help but have a good laugh over this piece of supposedly related journalism: https://www.devonlive.com/news/local-news/fire-railway-station-sparks-disruption-1470015 (https://www.devonlive.com/news/local-news/fire-railway-station-sparks-disruption-1470015) The 7.16pm (not 1916) Penzance to Plymouth was totally unconnected and was cancelled the best part of 2 hours before the fire. The unit was in trouble and terminated at Saltash on the way down. Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: Red Squirrel on April 18, 2018, 11:54:17 Is it possible that a driver got over-enthusiastic about the rebranding of HSTs as 'Castles', and set fire to some coal?
Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: Electric train on April 18, 2018, 19:24:00 Probably a turbo charger at fault, used to be a regular occurrence in the early days of the 125's the turbos on the Paxman engines were notorious for spontaneous combustion ;D
Title: Re: Fire at Penzance Station - 17 Apr 18 Post by: phile on April 19, 2018, 21:00:47 Probably a turbo charger at fault, used to be a regular occurrence in the early days of the 125's the turbos on the Paxman engines were notorious for spontaneous combustion ;D Yea, Turbo problem but cause not known. MTU investigating and set still at Long Rock Depot This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |