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« 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.
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A proper intercity train has a minimum of 8 coaches, gangwayed throughout, with first at one end, and a full sized buffet car between first and standard.
It has space for cycles, surfboards,luggage etc.
A 5 car DMU▸ (Diesel Multiple Unit) is not a proper inter-city train. The 5+5 and 9 car DMUs are almost as bad.
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« Reply #1 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.
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« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2018, 09:59:41 »
SWT▸ (South West Trains) report between Woking & Surbiton
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« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2018, 10:20:34 »
Stuving reports between Surbiton and some place called Wokig  Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2018, 10:23:35 »
|And a singal failure? :-)
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« Reply #5 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.
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« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2018, 10:27:53 »
Quote from: Adelante_CCT on October 24, 2018, 10:20:34
Stuving reports between Surbiton and some place called Wokig  Smiley
Must be the first cold of the year ...
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« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2018, 11:24:52 »
Looks like its been solved (for now).
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