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Title: Freight train failure near Uffington? Post by: DidcotPunter on June 07, 2018, 09:49:13 The Tilbury - Wentloog Freightliner appears to have stopped just west of Uffington at 6:20 this morning blocking the down main. Down trains have been using the reversible signalling to run on the up line between the Uffington and Bourton crossovers. Freight on the move just under 3 hours later though, at the time of posting, down trains are still being routed over the up line between the crossovers. Needless to say, it's causing some delays!
Title: Re: Freight train failure near Uffington? Post by: bobm on June 07, 2018, 10:35:13 Apparently a pipe split and caused quite a bit of contamination of the rail head and ballast.
Once the train was rescued and moved they did try using the sanders on a following freight to clear the oil but it wasn't too successful. The line has now re-opened and staff are treating the rails between trains. With the route through Newbury closed that stretch is pretty busy this week. Thankfully it failed just past the crossovers at Uffington so there was a relatively short stretch of reversible working needed. 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 |