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Title: Waterloo passengers advised not to travel 24/10/2018 Post by: broadgage on October 24, 2018, 09:42:55 Major signaling failure between Surbiton and Basingstoke.
Advice is not to travel on trains that use that route which includes the great majority of Waterloo services. Disruption was already expected due to a strike. Very poor. Breakdowns did of course occur back in the good old days, but these major closures do appear to be new thing. Title: Re: Waterloo passengers advised not to travel 24/10/2018 Post by: Jason on October 24, 2018, 09:53:05 This made for some very cosy trains on the Basingstoke to Reading line this morning.
Multiple people were unable to board the local stopping service at Mortimer, one of the two shuttle sets was running as a two car. Title: Re: Waterloo passengers advised not to travel 24/10/2018 Post by: ChrisB on October 24, 2018, 09:59:41 SWT report between Woking & Surbiton
Title: Re: Waterloo passengers advised not to travel 24/10/2018 Post by: Adelante_CCT on October 24, 2018, 10:20:34 Stuving reports between Surbiton and some place called Wokig (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=20557.msg249500#msg249500) :)
Title: Re: Waterloo passengers advised not to travel 24/10/2018 Post by: ChrisB on October 24, 2018, 10:23:35 |And a singal failure? :-)
Title: Re: Waterloo passengers advised not to travel 24/10/2018 Post by: SandTEngineer on October 24, 2018, 10:25:45 Reported elsewhere as loss of signalling power supply to the Walton-on-Thames area. Apparently not the first time recently this has happened, and that fixing it is not going too well at the moment. Sounds like one of those difficult ones to solve (been there, done that, not easy when you are under extreme pressure to run trains).
I recall once being in a similar position. Every time we put the main feeder fuse in, it blew. Eventually traced to a rat having partially chewed through a cable. It takes time to isolate each section and find something like that. Title: Re: Waterloo passengers advised not to travel 24/10/2018 Post by: stuving on October 24, 2018, 10:27:53 Stuving reports between Surbiton and some place called Wokig (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=20557.msg249500#msg249500) :) Must be the first cold of the year ...Title: Re: Waterloo passengers advised not to travel 24/10/2018 Post by: SandTEngineer on October 24, 2018, 11:24:52 Looks like its been solved (for now).
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