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« Reply #3855 on: September 21, 2022, 11:31:56 »

Here's something I said two years ago, about one of these failures due to train/OLE (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE") interaction in France:
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SNCF (Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais - French National Railways) are saying (though this is subject to detailed investigation) that a catenary fault at Orthez damaged a pantograph, which in turn went on to damage 60 km of catenary (mainly at track switches). For that, it must have still been collecting current OK. After stopping at Morcenx, the train did restart and got 50 km further to Ychoux, before its complete failure. Apparently, two following trains also suffered some of this mutual damage effect. 

However, that train didn't go through Orthez, so there was more work to do then tracing the chain of events back. That was 1500V DC (Direct Current) OLE, which is chunkier, but still relies on the top of the pan sliding smoothly along the contact wire at all times.
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« Reply #3856 on: September 21, 2022, 13:34:03 »

Cancellations to services between London Paddington and Reading

Due to damage to the overhead electric wires between London Paddington and Reading some lines towards Reading are blocked.

Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled, delayed or revised.

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« Reply #3857 on: September 21, 2022, 20:18:40 »

Thankfully, all was back to a semblance of normal by 1704, when I caught the Penzance train to TVP. Even the WiFi worked sporadically.
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« Reply #3858 on: September 23, 2022, 17:18:57 »

Seeing reports of wires down at Hanwell.

Good luck to anyone trying to get home this evening in what has been a miserable week.
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« Reply #3859 on: September 23, 2022, 17:21:23 »

As just mentioned but a bit more from JourneyCheck

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Delays to services between London Paddington and Slough

Due to damage to the overhead electric wires between London Paddington and Slough all lines are blocked.

Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed. Disruption is expected until 18:00 23/09.

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Electric trains get their power from electrical rails on the ground or overhead wires. The power supply to both of these can fail due to a number of factors.

Not much seems to be moving out at Paddington at the moment
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« Reply #3860 on: September 23, 2022, 17:54:59 »

2P60 from Didcot appears to have reached Southall on up relief and been cancelled thereafter. Now (1753) running ECS (Empty Coaching Stock) "wrong line" (though a signalled move) to be dumped in P5 at Hayes & Harlington.

Not sure if this is the epicentre of the incident. Traffic seems to be moving on the main lines.
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« Reply #3861 on: September 23, 2022, 17:58:57 »

Whether it was infrastructure or train caused the initial damage on Monday, the damaged pantograph involved looks like has cause damage elsewhere
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« Reply #3862 on: September 23, 2022, 17:59:39 »

9P57 1631 Heathrow T5 - Paddington (Class 345 Liz Line service) had an ADD (Automatic Dropping Device) activation near Hanwell Station on the up relief. Driver reported OLE (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE") damage. Initially all lines were blocked after the OLE in the area tripped.

Up and down main reopened fairly quickly. Bit there is already significant disruption with delays and short notice cancellations due to having only the main lines available for the evening peak.

EDIT: Down relief reopened too.
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« Reply #3863 on: September 23, 2022, 18:08:05 »

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 (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE") wherever it goes, but continuing in service because it's not been identified as the culprit?
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« Reply #3864 on: September 23, 2022, 18:26:20 »

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 (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE") wherever it goes, but continuing in service because it's not been identified as the culprit?

I imagine it's easy to say that might be true, but very hard to prove it and even harder to disprove it. There may well be a load of people in NR» (Network Rail - home page) Towers staring at screens as hour after hour of pantograph monitor videos run through, mind-numbingly, trying to spot the earliest instance of pan damaging wire or vice versa.
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« Reply #3865 on: September 23, 2022, 18:32:16 »

Monday's and today's incidents involved Class 345s. I wonder if that's just coincidence...
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« Reply #3866 on: September 23, 2022, 19:09:21 »

Depressingly,  but predictably......disruption until the end of the day.

Cancellations to services between London Paddington and Reading

Due to damage to the overhead electric wires between London Paddington and Reading some lines towards London Paddington are blocked.
Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled, delayed by up to 90 minutes or revised.

Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
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« Reply #3867 on: September 23, 2022, 21:02:46 »

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 (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE") 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 (West Coast Main Line) north of Weaver Jcn to Scotland, the ECML (East Coast Main Line), BedPan, etc.  Pre privatisation BR (British Rail(ways)) 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» (Network Rail - home page) Region and TOC (Train Operating Company) engineers looking at all the posible causes ................... mean time the finance and contracts folks will be claiming and counter claiming
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« Reply #3868 on: September 23, 2022, 21:13:37 »

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  Pre privatisation BR (British Rail(ways)) had the manpower, equipment and track access to maintain headspan

I think that this may be the core of the problem. I remember reading an article by an OLE (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE") maintenance engineer about trying to maintain a main line OLE with a privatised Infrastructure Maintenance Unit, now stripped of its skilled staff, and the consequent frequent avoidable failures.

That's probably why our latest OLE designs are designed for low maintenance.

Headspans could work reasonably if in good hands.

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« Reply #3869 on: September 24, 2022, 02:13:23 »

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 (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE") wherever it goes, but continuing in service because it's not been identified as the culprit?

No.
If the speculation is correct in that it was the 345 on Monday, then it was on the Down Relief, although other adjacent lines had damage.
Wednesday was the Down Main and then tonight was the Up Relief.
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