Derailment at Farringdon Underground Station (02/11/2013)

Brucey

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Derailment at Farringdon Underground Station (02/11/2013)

« on: November 02, 2013, 10:13:34 »

I am seeing on Twitter that the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines are part suspended due to a derailed train at Farringdon on the sub-surface lines (SSL^▸ ).

Does anyone have any more details about this incident, such as the severity and how LUL^▸ plan on re-railing (is that a word?) the train?


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Chris from Nailsea

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Re: Derailment at Farringdon Underground Station (02/11/2013)

« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2013, 10:25:54 »

From JourneyCheck:

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Circle Line: No service anticlockwise while we deal with a derailment of an empty train at Farringdon depot.


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Re: Derailment at Farringdon Underground Station (02/11/2013)

« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2013, 10:26:32 »

I'm told be a person who was going to be using that line it was out a couple of hours ago - "empty train, presumably coming out of sidings"


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Re: Derailment at Farringdon Underground Station (02/11/2013)

« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2013, 12:20:55 »

Quote from: Brucey on November 02, 2013, 10:13:34

... and how LUL^▸ plan on re-railing (is that a word?) the train?

LU have a permanently manned Emergency Response Unit (ERU), they have the equipment to re-rail a train that has suffered this sort of incident. I was surprised to hear recently, that they also attend incidents in specific areas of the big railway, it was LU's ERU that put the derailed SWT^▸ unit back on the rails at Clapham Yard a few days ago.

I think a minor derailment is usually solved with a few heavy duty hydraulic jacks and similar stuff...

Paul


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